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13-05-2015, 12:50 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/05/12...land-policies/ (http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/05/12/pap-administration%e2%80%99s-alice-in-wonderland-policies/)
PAP administration’s Alice-in-Wonderland policies (http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/05/12/pap-administration%e2%80%99s-alice-in-wonderland-policies/)
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May 12th, 2015 | http://www.tremeritus.org/wp-content/themes/WP_010/images/PostAuthorIcon.png?dfff86
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Lee, who graduated from Cambridge University in England
with top honors, is leading a campaign that includes speeches and roadshows to
persuade more youths to join the workforce under a system modeled on Germany’s
apprenticeship system. The “earn and learn” program would place graduates from
technical schools into jobs, while giving them the chance to continue part-time
education.
Lee Hsien Loong … is trying to persuade the population that
they don’t need to go to university to have a good career. After a clampdown on
immigration and a slowdown in the economy, he needs fewer graduates and more
workers to fill the shipyards, factory floors and hotel desks that keep the
country going.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...luck-with-that (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-03/singapore-wants-kids-to-skip-college-good-luck-with-that)
Fair enough, except that the PAP administration* at the same time allows FTs in
still by the A380 load (used to be by the container load by ship) on the excuse
that we need graduate PMEs. The PAP administration wants to further restrict the
number of true blue S’poreans getting degrees but then say we need FT graduates?
WTF?
Worse, we then have a govt agency (think IDA) defending an FT
employee who undeniably has a fake degree on the ground that she didn’t know it
was a fake**, and that
anyway she got her job because of her first degree from some Indian U, that no
S’porean (even from the local Indian community) would ever think of applying to
if the S’porean had to study overseas.
Sounds like the PAP administration could be the government in
Alice’s Wonderland, not the Red Queen.
As the author of the Alice books was an eminent mathematician, one
should not be surprised that our PM has such Alice-like policies. He graduated
from Cambridge University with a first-class degree in mathematics and a diploma
in computer science. He can write software to solve Sudoku puzzles. Err what
about writing a programme that can explain to voters the “less local grads”
policy but more FTs (with fake degrees or sub-standard degrees) policy?
Seriously, if ministers have not been able to calibrate the
relatively small number of local lawyers and doctors to the demands of the
economy, how can they realistically try to control the supply of graduates
across-the-board to demand?
One can reasonably assume that the “less local grads” policy
coupled with the continued welcoming of FTs, fake degrees and all, is meant to
“fix” S’poreans in the cause of ensuring that S’pore remains attractive to MNCs
because of low costs.
++++++++++++++++++=
* Harry loved
FTs. Maybe, they are the living memorials of Harry? In 1959, only 270,00 out of
the 600,000 voters were born here. The PAP is only trying to restore the
demographics to when the PAP came into power.
Interestingly, when one LKY revealed the above fact in 1959, LKY
also said,”we must go about our task (of building up a nation) with urgency … of
integrating our people now and quickly”. Maybe he repented building a nation of
native-borns? https://atans1.wordpress.com/2013/01...ters-were-fts/ (https://atans1.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/when-55-of-voters-were-fts/)
** And it seems that the IDA didn’t know that the degree was a fake until netizens pointed that the uni awarding the MBA was a reputable factory mill. Many years ago, a govt agency, Public Service Commission (I think) had a list of unis whose degrees the govt recognised when employing people. Stat boards and private businesses also used that list. Is there such a list today? If there was such a list, IDA should have known that the degree was a fake.
.
Cynical Investor
[Source]: Thoughts of a Cynical Investor
(http://atans1.wordpress.com (http://atans1.wordpress.com/)).
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?206662-PAP-administration’s-Alice-in-Wonderland-policies&goto=newpost).
http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/05/12...land-policies/ (http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/05/12/pap-administration%e2%80%99s-alice-in-wonderland-policies/)
PAP administration’s Alice-in-Wonderland policies (http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/05/12/pap-administration%e2%80%99s-alice-in-wonderland-policies/)
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May 12th, 2015 | http://www.tremeritus.org/wp-content/themes/WP_010/images/PostAuthorIcon.png?dfff86
Author: Contributions (http://www.tremeritus.com/author/contributor/)
http://www.tremeritus.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Lee_Hsien_Loong_630x420-300x200.jpg?dfff86
Lee, who graduated from Cambridge University in England
with top honors, is leading a campaign that includes speeches and roadshows to
persuade more youths to join the workforce under a system modeled on Germany’s
apprenticeship system. The “earn and learn” program would place graduates from
technical schools into jobs, while giving them the chance to continue part-time
education.
Lee Hsien Loong … is trying to persuade the population that
they don’t need to go to university to have a good career. After a clampdown on
immigration and a slowdown in the economy, he needs fewer graduates and more
workers to fill the shipyards, factory floors and hotel desks that keep the
country going.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...luck-with-that (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-03/singapore-wants-kids-to-skip-college-good-luck-with-that)
Fair enough, except that the PAP administration* at the same time allows FTs in
still by the A380 load (used to be by the container load by ship) on the excuse
that we need graduate PMEs. The PAP administration wants to further restrict the
number of true blue S’poreans getting degrees but then say we need FT graduates?
WTF?
Worse, we then have a govt agency (think IDA) defending an FT
employee who undeniably has a fake degree on the ground that she didn’t know it
was a fake**, and that
anyway she got her job because of her first degree from some Indian U, that no
S’porean (even from the local Indian community) would ever think of applying to
if the S’porean had to study overseas.
Sounds like the PAP administration could be the government in
Alice’s Wonderland, not the Red Queen.
As the author of the Alice books was an eminent mathematician, one
should not be surprised that our PM has such Alice-like policies. He graduated
from Cambridge University with a first-class degree in mathematics and a diploma
in computer science. He can write software to solve Sudoku puzzles. Err what
about writing a programme that can explain to voters the “less local grads”
policy but more FTs (with fake degrees or sub-standard degrees) policy?
Seriously, if ministers have not been able to calibrate the
relatively small number of local lawyers and doctors to the demands of the
economy, how can they realistically try to control the supply of graduates
across-the-board to demand?
One can reasonably assume that the “less local grads” policy
coupled with the continued welcoming of FTs, fake degrees and all, is meant to
“fix” S’poreans in the cause of ensuring that S’pore remains attractive to MNCs
because of low costs.
++++++++++++++++++=
* Harry loved
FTs. Maybe, they are the living memorials of Harry? In 1959, only 270,00 out of
the 600,000 voters were born here. The PAP is only trying to restore the
demographics to when the PAP came into power.
Interestingly, when one LKY revealed the above fact in 1959, LKY
also said,”we must go about our task (of building up a nation) with urgency … of
integrating our people now and quickly”. Maybe he repented building a nation of
native-borns? https://atans1.wordpress.com/2013/01...ters-were-fts/ (https://atans1.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/when-55-of-voters-were-fts/)
** And it seems that the IDA didn’t know that the degree was a fake until netizens pointed that the uni awarding the MBA was a reputable factory mill. Many years ago, a govt agency, Public Service Commission (I think) had a list of unis whose degrees the govt recognised when employing people. Stat boards and private businesses also used that list. Is there such a list today? If there was such a list, IDA should have known that the degree was a fake.
.
Cynical Investor
[Source]: Thoughts of a Cynical Investor
(http://atans1.wordpress.com (http://atans1.wordpress.com/)).
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?206662-PAP-administration’s-Alice-in-Wonderland-policies&goto=newpost).