Education quality to be improved

In his dialogue with Poly students yesterday at the 17th Polytechnic Forum, Heng Swee Kiat said there was no need to build another polytechnic. The five polytechnics should be adequate for our needs. What is lacking is the quality and this must be improved ‘to make learning more engaging and valuable for students’. This about sums up the education and job situation here at the moment.
 
We are producing enough graduates but lacking in quality. The problem is solved by importing good quality graduates from the third world and they have the numbers we need. In the meantime the urgent matter is to raise the quality of our world ranked education system to compete with those in unranked education institutions in the third world countries. They have got their education system right while we got it all wrong. We are like getting all the branded goods, brand names, but all fake, unusable and of poor quality.
 
The issue of improving the quality of a flawed education system will take a longer time to correct. While the MOE is doing it, perhaps it would be better to correct the clear and immediate problems by sending our students to the third world countries that are producing all the great talents that are replacing our daft graduates. The second step is to send a few teams to these third world countries to learn from them on how to produce graduates that are better than our universities and polytechnics. And certainly, even if the quality does not improve, the cost will be much cheaper if we engaged all their top professors, lecturers and teachers to replace the robots that we are using to teach our students.
 
With this two prong approaches, we would be able to save a lot of cost in education and produce good quality graduates as well. We may not need all the world ranked universities and polytechnics by sending our students to universities and polytechnics in the third world countries. No need to pay expensive western professors and lecturers, no need expensive education institutions and infrastructures, no need to sell ourselves as the education hub when we are producing not employable graduates or graduates good only for second or third tier management, etc etc.
 
That’s the way to go, cheap and good, very good and very cheap.

Meetings of world leaders should be like this

Photo courtesy of China Daily
Vladimir Putin celebrated his birthday in the idyllic island of Bali. Among the party guests were the Prime Ministers and Presidents of the Asia Pacific and Asean countries. Xi Jin Ping was there too. And Putin had the honour of another President in Yudhoyono strumming the guitar and playing the birthday song for him. And all the PMs and Presidents sang Happy Birthday to Putin in a relax and joyous moment like an old boys' club. What an evening.
 
In a gathering of world leaders, it was about caramaderie and friendship, about building bridges and relationships. It was not about threats of military actions, sanctions or signing military pacts. It was not about warning countries that their national interests means the country has a right to thump table and expect other countries to let them run roughshod in their neighbourhood.
 
The APEC Asean summit was like a birthday party, about peaceful pursuits and trades, not about big bullies threatening everyone that they are here to stay, bringing their guns and warships, and to sign defence treaties to prepare to fight one another.
Happy birthday Putin. And what a gracious and charming host in Yudhoyono. It was a Bandung gathering of a different kind in a different time when Indonesia again played hosts to world leaders.

US Evil Militant Doctrine of Perpetual Warfare

China And ASEAN as well as all other countries should be aware of US Evil Doctrine of Perpetual Warfare
                                                          
China and Asean countries have both in the recent past shared the unfortunate fate of being occupied , colonised and badly exploited by the West and therefore they should now be more vigilant and wary of the West headed by the Evil Empire - USA . US has an evil militant doctrine of perpetual and permanent warfare. Under this doctrine US and the West will consistently and incessantly psycho, provoke and incite other unsuspecting countries to fight and go after each others throats while they will sell weapons and military hardware to the pathetic warring countries . US find this insidious doctrine of perpetual warfare necessary and essential because of its huge mongous war industries . The war industries employed hundreds of thousands of employees and are owned by warmonger capitalists who sit in both Wall Street , The White House , Congress and The Senate as well as in CIA and The Pentagon. These war industries serve the multi purpose of not only earning the warmongering capitalists hundreds of billions of dollars annually but also enable US and the West to control the natural resources of other countries as well as allowing US - The Evil Empire to hold hegemony and have complete control of all countries in this world.

China and ASEAN as well as all other countries must not fall into the trap of being psychoed and incited to go into warfare among themselves just because of imaginary, flimsy and frivolous grounds or reasons played up by The Evil Empire - USA.

Southernglory1

Read the article below and watch the video by CORBETT

Re: Who Is Really Behind the Syrian War? - YouTube
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We all know that the US government is the greatest warmonger in the world.  Without wars, big or small, how do their weapon manufacturers sell their weapons? This group of ppl have great influence in Capitol Hill.  So they go around to instigate revolt against legitimate governments around the world using the flimsiest excuse to wage wars in these countries.  Iraq is the case in point.  Where are the WMDs?  None.  But look at the state of affairs in Iraq.  It is anarchy all round.  Libya was next and now Syria.  Now they want to pivot to Asia.  China is their target.  They tried the Jasmine revolution but failed and now they try to get their minions, like the Japanese lap dogs, the ingrate Vietnamese government and the spineless Philippines government to do their dirty job by needling China into localized wars in the South China Sea over island disputes so that they can go in to hammer China invoking their so-called joint defense treaties. 

China must exercise the greatest restraint not to provoke a military skirmish, thus giving the US the long awaited excuse to launch another debilitating war.  China must concentrate on improving its internal security, (against the separatist elements in Tibet and Xinjiang) strengthening its defense capability and furthering its economic power. 

Militarily, China is no match against the US at the moment except maybe starting a nuclear conflict in which there will be no winner but mutual destruction.  Remember the US was the one who dropped 2 atom bombs in Japan in WWII.  Now sworn enemies of yore viz Japan and Vietnam are bedfellows with the US against a rising China.

Without the internet to show real footages, I would have thought that the US is the 'good guy'. Now I know the US and its leaders are just as devious and they have their agenda to bring down Syria as they have done with Iraq. I have learnt not to trust the politicians any more.

Like to share the following link on the Syrian saga.   the video is from Corbett Report, an independent podcast on politics, society n economics.   it was started by a Canadian James Corbett.   what is worrying is retired USA general Wesley Clark's comments of a plan to get rid of 7 Muslim countries in Middle East, viz Irag, Lybia, Syria, etc.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cCdaExnIpGs

China and ASEAN as well as other countries should beware of US evil militant doctrine of Perpetual Warfare

China and Asean countries have both in the recent past shared the unfortunate fate of being occupied , colonised and badly exploited by the West and therefore they should now be more vigilant and wary of the West headed by the Evil Empire - USA . US has an evil militant doctrine of perpetual and permanent warfare. Under this doctrine US and the West will consistently and incessantly psycho, provoke and incite other unsuspecting countries to fight and go after each others throats while they will sell weapons and military hardware to the pathetic warring countries . US find this insidious doctrine of perpetual warfare necessary and essential because of its huge mongous war industries . The war industries employed hundreds of thousands of employees and are owned by warmonger capitalists who sit in both Wall Street , The White House , Congress and The Senate as well as in CIA and The Pentagon. These war industries serve the multi purpose of not only earning the warmongering capitalists hundreds of billions of dollars annually but also enable US and the West to control the natural resources of other countries as well as allowing US - The Evil Empire to hold hegemony and have complete control of all countries in this world.


China and ASEAN as well as all other countries must not fall into the trap of being psychoed and incited to go into warfare among themselves just because of imaginary, flimsy and frivolous grounds or reasons played up by The Evil Empire - USA.


Southernglory1

How to save the USA?

The US govt is on a shut down mode. And two weeks down the road it is faced with a more serious problem, to raise its debt ceiling of US$16.7 trillion to a higher ceiling. Failing to do so will mean the American would run out of money, unable to pay interest on US govt bonds. It will be the first default in American history, that they could not service their loans.
 
My God, with a debt of US$16.7 trillion, they owed China US$1.3 trillion and Japan US$1.1 trillion, and nearly all the countries in the world and they want to print more money! And this country is talking about how rich it is and that it can afford to conduct wars everywhere and pay its soldiers to do that, buying more and more expensive military hardware, when it is already broke! It needs to print more money just to get by. In a way it is a bankrupt nation if it is not allowed to print money.
 
And the Americans are still consuming like hell, spending like hell, and enjoying like hell. How long can this go on? How many more times can it kick the can further down the road before there is no road left?
 
What the Americans need is a big electric jolt. Another way, as someone told me, is for the Americans to find a Lee Kuan Yew to run the show. This is the greatest statesman on earth and still alive, to save America. He also needs a bigger stage than the little piece of rock in red dot. We can loan him to the Americans where there is still time, though not much.
 
A big jolt is needed to get the American out of their senses. Obama could simply go on national TV and tell the Americans that the Chinese will overtake America as the Number One economic power if Congress still wants to play with fire and not to approve the budge and not to print more money. The thought of America being second to China, or having a Chinaman as President, will send fears down their spines and will wake up their ideas. They still did not know that they are in really bad shape, with a debt of US$16.7 trillion while China and Japan each is sitting on a reserve of more than US$1 trillion each.
 
Wake up America or we will send you Lee Kuan Yew. If that does not frighten you, then be prepared to be Number Two, no longer calling the shot, no longer be able to threaten other countries with regime change, no longer the sheriff of the world. You are bankrupt.