Singapore education - failure or success?

 Education and moulding of the people as a force to be recognised internationally is one of the many failed missions in the legacy of Lee Kuan Yew due of his poor choice of a good leader to succeed him. His choices were limited because of his eagerness to make his own eldest son become the Prime Minister, a square peg squeezed into a round hole.

LHL is more suitable to be an academic professional, teaching in higher institutions of learning in mathematics. He was and is never good in politics, diplomacy and people-skills.

He is by nature good in numbers and digits. He is not good in selecting quality leaders to help him govern because of his inability to tolerate and accommodate dissenting and maverick views.

Therefore, he surrounds himself with sycophantic loyalists instead of real quality leaders. Owing to this critical factir, his team has been unable to raise the standard of living of his people on the one hand but only good in increasing the cost of living on the other.

In the formulation and implementation of many of his myopic, nationally unintegrated and piece-meal policies, he has failed his father, his predecessors, his people and his country miserably.

Education is the epitome and the zenith of all his failures. The long-term leadership succession is the second. CECA is the third.

Help us, God!


Queen of Hearts.

Singapore Education - What price to pay for a piece of paper that cannot be eaten?

 ST 25 Sep had an article titled 'Lack of local talent a big challenge for Singapore business'. What is pertinent in the survey is this, the respondents said the lack of local talent was the biggest challenge, but this was not the case in Taiwan, India, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Indonesia and Malaysia. And what are these talents they are referring to? Sales professionals, people skilled in technology business development, digital marketing and e-commerce.

Who or which organisation should be responsible to churn up such talents for the industries? The talents must be trained or educated and feed the market. The demands from the industries are ready talents, not talents that the industries would be producing or trained.The industries did not see it taking up the responsibility train talents for their own needs. Practically every organisation expects to fill their positions from trained and experienced people from the open market or from the rest of the world.

With this kind of mindset, the burden of providing educated and in some way trained talents must come from the institutions of higher learning, the polytechnics and universities. The irony here is that Singapore often boasts about its world class and very expensive universities, high fees because they are the best, at least better than the countries mentioned above. The why is it that these countries, with universities that mostly ranked at the tail end of surveys, are able to provide the talents but not Singapore?

A survey like this, and all craps coming out from employment agencies, even from third world countries, are as good as a dressing down on Singaporean talents, Singapore's institutions of higher learning. Useless universities, but very expensive, unable to provide talents for the industries. Are these real? Such smearing of local universities and their products is kind of being spread and supported even by the who's who in Singapore. Not only they did not dispute such disgusting smears, they also supported them by their actions, by employing foreigners to fill top management positions and often seen engaging foreign head hunters to hunt around the world for top management positions. And such disgraceful thoughts and comments are repeated quite often by the local media as if this is the truth, this is the fact, Singapore has no talents. Why are local media celebrating such lies, backing up such lies, like the survey mentioned above?

As long as the stupidity has no cure idiots keep allowing this narrative to go on and on, who would want to employ local graduates? On the other hand, the third world countries are praising their own graduates from their funny universities as better than Singapore graduates. And the Singapore;s idiotic who's who accept this without protest, without question, and happily filled even govt positions with funny foreign graduates from funny universities, including fakes and cheats.

What do all these mean to our institutions of higher learnings and Singapore education as a whole? Would it be cheaper and more productive to close them all down and send all our young to the funny universities around us, cheaper and better?

What do you think? What pay so much for a piece of a paper that cannot be eaten, and cannot get a good job?

PS. There are many Singaporean talents overseas but unable to return, unable to find equivalent positions in Singapore, simply because the imbeciles allowed the foreigners to set the narrative, to control the employment industry, to decide who is talent, who to be employed.  This is a crime committed by the imbeciles against our very own talents, with many local PMETs now retrenched, unemployed, underemployed or forced to retire prematurely.

 

 

 

Covid19 - I think the hysteria about reopening Singapore, voiced by some, is really out of place.

 
🔴 There's no alternative at this point.

Last year was different - the whole world was looking for a solution and it was found in the vaccines. But, first of all, no vaccine offers complete immunity and, secondly, quickly mutating viruses are always going to pose challenges to vaccine development.

This is why, for example, we have new flu jabs every year, because new strains emerge all the time.

Given that there are no new, miracle solutions coming, that could somehow wipe the virus out completely, and that vast majority of the population in Singapore is vaccinated, the only thing to do is to return to normal life - albeit responsibly.
No country can be on lockdown forever and zero-Covid strategies are untenable, because the virus is transmitted very easily. Not even North Korea was able to keep it out.

A change in mindset is needed.

Over the past 18 months people have been conditioned to react to relatively high infection figures with fear. It was justified in 2020 but not today.

The figures that need to be tracked are deaths and ICU hospitalizations, signifying severity of the virus (both compared against the vaccination status of the patients too - as we know it's the unvaccinated who are the most affected at this point).

So far only 73 people died of COVID in Singapore. This is less than 100+ who die in traffic accidents every year or an average of about 800 who die of regular flu.

We also have to remember that many of the patients that passed away due to COVID would have likely fallen prey to influenza or other common viruses, due to their already weakened state. In international statistics, the novel coronavirus pretty much wiped out flu as a cause of death in countries around the world (even though, of course, it is also responsible for a large number of excess deaths - but not in Singapore).

In other words, so far the death toll of C19 for the year and a half since the outbreak started in SG is on par with an average MONTH of flu deaths in a regular year.

Of course both viruses are different and Covid may impact even younger, healthier people more severely. Nevertheless, we have to maintain a sense of proportion.

Even at this point Singapore is doing many times better than comparable developed countries attempting large scale reopening.

In terms of death toll it is orders of magnitude better than most countries, in fact. Western nations lost anywhere between 1500 to 3000 people for 1 million inhabitants. In Singapore that figure is just 12-13 - easily over 100 times less.

As for patients in ICU, it's currently ca. 4 per million inhabitants - compared to 70 in the US, around 30 in Israel, France or Switzerland, 20 in countries like Germany, Belgium or Canada.

🔴 Considering that during previous waves this figure peaked around the world at anywhere between 60 to 120, SG still has a long way to go before it can start getting worried.

Since all that could have been done, has been done, it's now time to return to normal - however responsible - life, instead of expecting new lockdowns that threaten thousands of livelihoods. 

Anonymous

Meng Wanzhou - Biden slammed scum Trump

 Finally Biden took up the cudgel and threw it at Trump, ending a period of living under the dictates of this rascal. Biden had struck a deal with Xi and Meng Wanzhou is now back in China after a final plea of not guilty, that she was innocent of all the charges. Trump must be furiously mad for sleepy Joe to destroy his dubious scheme and threw it in his face.

This is the biggest slap Biden gave to the scoundrel Trump for illegally and shamefully arresting an innocent Chinese citizen just to attack and cripple Huawei as a competitor in 5G technology. After 3 years of this dirty and slimy act, what did the Americans achieved? Nothing, no 5G to show and still struggling to find out what is 5G. In the same time, under this unfair pressure from the evil Americans, Huawei has broken its dependence on American technology, developed its own chips, developed its own operating system and moving on to 6G.

The Americans would still be crying out loud that China stole its technology, technology that the Americans did not have in the first place.

Boy PM Trudeau now looking more stupid than ever. The whole shitty political game was decided by the Americans. He was a little boy ball picker. The Americans said pick, he would pick, run, he would run. Now the Americans said game over, he has to surrender Meng Wanzhou back to China. He has practically no say in this matter. Did he gain anything other than for Trump to pat his head and said, good boy?

And for all the silly things he had done to please Trump, the Canadian economy got tanked, and two Americans were arrested and stayed in Chinese jail for 3 years, sentenced to prison and one facing death row. The only consolation is for China to release these two Canadians after spending time in isolation in China.

Are all these worth it?

This sordid story does not end with the return of Meng to China. It is just the beginning for Canada. Biden may have struck a deal with Xi and American China relations may be on the mend, but not Canadian China relations. Canada would be kept in cold storage for some time to come.

Meng Wanzhou would be honoured as a heroine in China, having been unfairly arrested by the silly Canadian boy PM on behalf of the gangster Trump, and having to endure the separation from family and country and the prospect of not returning to her homeland. Meng Wanzhou stood the ground with great strength and dignity and is now famous not just in China, but also the world. She is a mighty woman standing against the might of two horrible western govts and returned home in honour, unscathed, and did not waver under immense pressure, alone in a foreign land.

China has a new heroine to add to its long history and civilisation.

PS. This episode is a good reminder to all the crony countries that think America is an honourable and good place to visit and to park their money in. They stand to have their money confiscated and they be arrested by fabricated lies and charges cooked up by the evil Americans.

CECA - Fierce argument to support this agreement

  The Singapore government has once again made efforts to debunk the misconceptions about the India-Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), this time in two Youtube videos explaining two “serious falsehoods” relating to CECA....

The first video, which was posted by the Gov.sg on Monday (23 Aug) as an “abridged version” of the video, started off with the fact that CECA is one of the 26 Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) that was signed by Singapore in 2005.

It revealed that the investments made by Singapore companies to India have grown to S$61 billion since the inception of CECA, of which these companies supported a total of 97,000 local jobs in Singapore as of 2019.

At the same time, Singapore gained help from Indian companies to boost its Infocomm sector.

 

Above quoted from an article, 'Singapore Govt produces Youtube videos to explain “serious falsehoods” about CECA'  in the now banned TOC.

Singapore invested S$61b through CECA and this ended up supporting 97,000 jobs in Singapore. This type of argument 'sibeh heon' from sibeh clever millionaires. 97,000 jobs! If no CECA die leow. How to create 97,000 jobs in Singapore? Still scratching my head, pumped in S$61b in India and this created 97,000 jobs in Singapore? How ah? Only bone I want to pick is the word 'local' jobs. Local means not necessary to be Singaporeans.  What if 90% of the local jobs go to foreigners, then how ah?

What are the companies that have created these 97,000 jobs? Those in Singapore's Chennai Business Park?

No need to worry about the details. This is put up by the government, so must be true. Sibeh heng ah, got CECA and got S$61b to invest in India. If S$61b invest in Singapore sure cannot create 97,000 jobs.

So, don't criticise or attack CECA. CECA creates jobs for Singaporeans, or is it locals? The feeling is so good for the locals. How many of the locals are Singaporeans?  When they dared not count the Singaporeans, what did it mean?