Govt rigidity
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I am sorry to hear that. Try meet the minister session in your area.Originally posted by redstone:They should reserve a certain percentage of places for those who do not meet the entry requirement! -
So what's your plan? Can you even get into poly?
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MP appeal also no use....Originally posted by Cindyfeh:I am sorry to hear that. Try meet the minister session in your area.
As long as you miss entry requirement, whatever you have cannot grant you even an interview!!! -
If we are sticking to this standard of selection, we will be missing several Bill gates an Michael Dell.Originally posted by lwflee:You mentioned academic certs and prizes...imo, they are quite irrelevent because nobody really knows what it takes to get those prizes. The prizes are, i assume, awarded by your school on the basis of a wholly internal assesement. What we know however, is that when you took a standardized test, you failed to make the mark.
Imo, your certs and prizes should only be seriously taken into account when you have fulfilled the min reqs, and are competing for a place with other candidartes who have fulfilled the min reqs. Then, i think it would be logical that your certs and prizes would give you an advantage.
I have given up hopes on Singapore education. I believe many had too. These include LHL, GCT and many more who sent their children oversea for education. -
sg does not allow mistakes at all. make one and be condamned for life.
sg is quite unforgiving from top to bottom. -
Not all people excel in all fields and people should know that.
Like Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison. -
Degrees and diplomas and wat not paper qualifications cannot be the only benchmarks in judging a person. Because the academic side is after all just the academic side.
In terms of his character and his personality, then you not only need to have many meetings with him or her, you also need people who have the ability to see through each person's character by just talking to him or observing his body language for eg.
As for talent, if he truly has it, then not only he has the ability to speak well of it but that he can also truly demonstrate it. Actions must justify the words. -
I didn't even get an interview chance!
"We only interview those who meet the entry requirements".... -
but that's not how the sg system worksOriginally posted by redstone:Not all people excel in all fields and people should know that.
Like Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison.
that's why lots of talented local people go overseas where they are appreciated than to walk into wall here while the doors are kept open for "foreign talents", academic scholars and white horses
I will always encourage people who have a dream, to go out of singapore to fulfil it. Don't get worn out and have your fighting spirit broken by the yoke you will have to wear here. Even the people have been wearing blinders and do not know it, and in fact impose the same blinders on others in the name of rules upon others. -
That is right.Originally posted by mistyblue:sg does not allow mistakes at all. make one and be condamned for life.
sg is quite unforgiving from top to bottom.
Come to think of it, everyone will make a serious mistake. That mistake is growing old! Once you hit 35, you better pray real hard that you will not be retrenched because of your high pay and that your company think your are not modern thinking enough.
This narrow-minded thinking seems here to stay.
That is why I am choosing migration. I want to migrate to another country where I will not be discriminated because i am 35 years old or older. -
Have you tried?Originally posted by redstone:MP appeal also no use....
As long as you miss entry requirement, whatever you have cannot grant you even an interview!!! -
yeah man... I am actually getting that uneasy feeling...Originally posted by Cindyfeh:That is right.
Come to think of it, everyone will make a serious mistake. That mistake is growing old! Once you hit 35, you better pray real hard that you will not be retrenched because of your high pay and that your company think your are not modern thinking enough.
This narrow-minded thinking seems here to stay.
That is why I am choosing migration. I want to migrate to another country where I will not be discriminated because i am 35 years old or older.
The funny thing is that other countries want more experienced workers cause their young people are irresponsible and do not have that level of over-view and knowledge. In some companies, the older workers are pair with the younger to let them learn from each other. And the companies have job rotation to develop and groom the people further. Only sg where they see older people as liability to be kick out with no growth opportunities nor is there any development to these people. The govt training is a joke and farce. And only in sg where they worship the young people with no experience to come out with ridiculous suggestions and do not take into consideration the current setup and the impact of the suggestions. Then when it bombs out, the govt would cover it up...
The biased, narrow thinking will not change... not in our lifetime.. I know I would be look upon as 2nd class in other country but to me, when I retire, I want to get out of his sh!tty place. My bf never understood why I am so biased against sg till I brought him out to US. -
Wrong, if you're at the top you can make all the "honest mistakes" you want, to the tune of hundreds of millions. If you're at the bottom then you'll end up in prison.Originally posted by mistyblue:sg does not allow mistakes at all. make one and be condamned for life.
sg is quite unforgiving from top to bottom.
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Imagine getting good results for most of the subjects required for poly entrance. But 1 subject missed by 1 grade.
This appears to be the case for almost all education institution throughout the world. If you are a terrific student but yet fail to make the grade to enter a prestigious school such as Harvard or Cambridge, you can really only blame yourself for failing to make the grade. Almost all courses, unless the really poor reputated, need some basic standard and criteria for entries. If any Tom Dick and Harry can enter into the school regardless of their result, then very soon we can see the standard of the school dropping.
NOTHING you can do. They only see your results and nothing else!!!
Appeal, rejected. Academic excellence certs and prizes no use too....
And the govt is promoting the 'recognition of young talent'. You can get into some secondary schools by talent, into uni by talent more than results....
But post sec entirely different story?! -
Want a less rigid PAP Government? That's not impossible -
throw PAP out of parliament.
In this way, if and when PAP clawed their way back into parliament, is the day they have to become less rigid.
QED! -
Cue - "You are a mouthpiece of the government!" + "You are logical, but we do not care!" + "PAP sucks!" + "Fark the government!" + "Stoopid civil servant! You must die!" ad nauseum.Originally posted by socrates:This appears to be the case for almost all education institution throughout the world. If you are a terrific student but yet fail to make the grade to enter a prestigious school such as Harvard or Cambridge, you can really only blame yourself for failing to make the grade. Almost all courses, unless the really poor reputated, need some basic standard and criteria for entries. If any Tom Dick and Harry can enter into the school regardless of their result, then very soon we can see the standard of the school dropping.
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SP only interviews ppl who meet entry requirements.....
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PAP government has deny our rights as citizens of a so called democratic country through -
1) absolute control of the medias
2) the use of NS to deny young men the freedom to protest against unfair policies and from becoming too active against government .
Our Dear Leader fears a possible 'people power' like those in other countries where University and high school students were people power leaders that brought down corrupt governments - eg Philippines and Indonesia . So NS was incorporated.
Todate Singapore is only other country in the world that has 24 months NS - and our country isnt even being threatened by our neighbours! Even Taiwan had slashed its NS to 12 months.
3) .......and total control of Union movements in Singapore.
So you see, after having ensured they have got all these in a tight iron fist, Our Dear Leader turned us into obedient slaves, to serve, bring glory and fame to our Dear Leader. -
My letter to Mr Tharman worked.
Finally the situation had been altered.
Tharman had announced, 5% of space allocated to candidates who do not meet entry requirements, but have the talent and aptitude. -
Good.Originally posted by redstone:My letter to Mr Tharman worked.
Finally the situation had been altered.
But the yoke of the SAF Act around the neck of our male citizens is something of a double-edged sword not many are informed about. -
What Act?Originally posted by LazerLordz:Good.
But the yoke of the SAF Act around the neck of our male citizens is something of a double-edged sword not many are informed about.
Yes, I know Act is something like law rule....
What does the Act?
All male citizens and PR must do NS? -
I remember the principal of my JC complaining to me about this before.Originally posted by redstone:They should reserve a certain percentage of places for those who do not meet the entry requirement!
Parents want him to take in their children who 'just missed' the minimum requirement. In the end, more than half the students in his JC got in by appeal, which meant more than of them missed the minimum grade. But then other parents complain when the JC's ranking dropped..... -
It's ALWAYS been like that with our Govt.
Everything, from CPF to HDB to Education, its as dead-fixed as a door nail.
Totally inflexible, non-negotiable, and Un-feeling.
So, courtesy and graceousness anyone????