Top scholars who can't get into Medical Faculty
The Straits Times, 24 May 1981, Page 9
Featuring our very own Workers Party and Opposition Star Chen Show Mao.
ex-ACS boy!
This brings the idea that....
The criteria for entry into university hasn't been changed since then because entrance is still based on
- Entrance Criteria (profiling and Aptitude Test)
- Bias towards certain stereotypes (school you come from, how you speak, look and dress)
- Govt economic and social policies (spread scholars to other fields, economic needs)
- Policies that just don't make sense (2nd language results)
and fuels my sentiment about several educational institutions of higher Learning (including many of our local schools)
- Are part of the Government Bureaucracy: Carrying out Govt. Policy dutifully and responsibly, sometimes to a fault.
- Some faculty members are motivated by feelings emotions rather than driven by data, intellect or science (Ask me about my paper presentation in the Medical Faculty)
- Function like Business Enterprises: Always about outcomes and results, $$$ and Ranking.
Education seem just like another means and platform to gain prestige, earn money, and to climb a career & social ladder.
I'm not complaining. We have done a good job in jump-starting our tertiary education system. Just that if there are so many bottom-lines and stakeholders deciding the directions of an educational institution, how are they going to prioritise over all that, and focus and cater to the needs of learners themselves? Are undergraduates merely inputs to an age-old by-gone industrial era, entering the economic machinery as specially selected raw material to be churned into strategically curated products? Or are they individuals with the right to carve out what and who they choose to be, based on their hearts, hopes and Aims, ideals and dreams?
What should I tell/ask my children in future. 'Study this, because it's good for your future', or 'what do you dream of when you grow up?'
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