Don't just stand there!!! Give feedback!!!
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Unhappy with a govt law or decision?
Unhappy with the current situation?
You have better ideas?
Give feedback!
Feedback Unit, a very effective way of giving feedback if you don't know where to direct it to.
Feedback Unit
If you know who and where to direct it to, go here. Lists the official contacts of top civil servants in government bodies.
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I had feedbacked on the sheer rigidity and blindly superficial meritocracy of post secondary educational institutions admissions.
I suggested to let a certain percentage of students in based on talents, aptitude and interest.
Because I was rejected from poly all cos 1 subject missed entry requirement by 1 grade. No matter what certs or prizes you have, no matter how high or how many time you appeal, admissions are based purely on grades alone.
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Hi redstone,
sorry to hear of your rejection.
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Hello Redstone,
It is good to have one more active citizen. I will like to see more posts from you at Feedback Unit website: www.feedback.gov.sg.
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oh, i feedbacked b4 too. But all the FBU did was to regurgitate everything said in the newspapers. Oh well, can't expect much anyway...Originally posted by redstone:I had feedbacked on the sheer rigidity and blindly superficial meritocracy of post secondary educational institutions admissions.
I suggested to let a certain percentage of students in based on talents, aptitude and interest.
Because I was rejected from poly all cos 1 subject missed entry requirement by 1 grade. No matter what certs or prizes you have, no matter how high or how many time you appeal, admissions are based purely on grades alone. -
Give what sort of feedback?
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Feedback?
I think it's a waste of time. I doubt they'd take your opinions seriously. And besides, they always knows what's best for us all. -
Is putting up white elephant feedback?
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Any feedback.Originally posted by shade343:Give what sort of feedback?
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Did you really expect a satisfactory answer?Originally posted by pikamaster:oh, i feedbacked b4 too. But all the FBU did was to regurgitate everything said in the newspapers. Oh well, can't expect much anyway...
All they really do is fatten their replies with big words that don't really make much sense to us small people. It might grade an A for a speech competition but really means nothing to us. -
In fact, this is, i suspect the way WE will be managed.
For too long, we have stayed subservient, always being the yes-men the govt wanted. And for that, Singapore has grown economically and as a society.
Now, as an increasing number of educated masses hit the streets, it seems that subservience has come back to bite them.
In fact, this silence of the people is really an enforced problem, kept in check by contemptuous defamation suits and a 'permit' system to ensure compliance with rules and regulation set down in the past.
Other avenues such as letters to the forums of our local papers is heavily censored and edited by ST editors hungry to snip out anything remotely deemed as strong criticism towards our govt or its leaders.
Open letters and emails have fallen on deaf ears.
Hence is this feedback channel of any use? Will it bring about change? Change which the ruling party is so eager to preach but so resistant to themselves? Do they even sift through the letters and complaints from citizens who voice legitimate concerns in writing. Will anyone address them seriously?
The feedback channel is more the result of an increasing number of people raising issues, thus the need for more channels of communication between the govt and the people. But whether they will be adequately used by those behind the scenes is another question.
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I, too, am extremely skeptical of this feedback unit. I'd rather write to the papers and at least get some publicity and hopefully some support on the issue than get shot down alone and no one know about it. Not for myself, but at least stir up some kind of realisation in people.
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So far about half of my feedbacks to Feedback Unit got replied to by the relevant govt bodies.Originally posted by juz_A_gal:I, too, am extremely skeptical of this feedback unit. I'd rather write to the papers and at least get some publicity and hopefully some support on the issue than get shot down alone and no one know about it. Not for myself, but at least stir up some kind of realisation in people.
FBU itself always replies, stating where the feedback was directed to. -
SDGi (Singapore Government Directory Interactive) even lists the official contacts of ministers, MPs.
Like Lee Hsien Loong, Goh Chok Tong, Lee Kuan Yew and even SR Nathan. -
You work at Feedback Unit?Originally posted by robertteh:Hello Redstone,
It is good to have one more active citizen. I will like to see more posts from you at Feedback Unit website: www.feedback.gov.sg. 
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Sorry I might sound a bit harsh, but anyone who entertains the belief that the Feedback Unit, meet-the-people sessions or official contacts of our ministers are of any use, is only dreaming. I would recomend he/she to take a look at:Originally posted by redstone:SDGi (Singapore Government Directory Interactive) even lists the official contacts of ministers, MPs.
Like Lee Hsien Loong, Goh Chok Tong, Lee Kuan Yew and even SR Nathan.
sgpvictimise.blogspot.com -
Actually I had gave feedback to several govt bodies, and had had positive response and action from them.
Suggest something useful, logical and theoratically feasible..........
Trust me.
Like hmm.......
Suggest the govt make a centralised database for people that had been to Singapore. -
Give feedback also no use, the feedback unit will only patronize us. The government is like a horse which will only run unless it's given a bloody big whack on its back. So this "bloody big whack" can be protests & demonstrations. It's so common in Hong Kong, regardless of whether they're young or old. Feedback no use 1, it's just a pathetic piece of faeces. It's time we should learn from the people in Hong Kong, give a "bloody big whack" on the government.Originally posted by redstone:Unhappy with a govt law or decision?
Unhappy with the current situation?
You have better ideas?
Give feedback! -
feedback?
people only listen to what they want to hear. -
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One thousand year later still remain the same... -
I sent this email to Mr Tharman today.
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Dear Mr Tharman,
(-gives my name, school and such-)
Recently the education landscape in Singapore had undergone many much needed changes, and freeing up of the rigid post-secondary government institutions' admissions policies. I had previously feedbacked to MOE on this.
I am overjoyed that the situation had changed for the better. Literally thousands of students who, like me, failed to meet entry requirements would have another chance instead of blindly rejected by the purely-by-grades policy.
This year, I got rejected from Singapore Polytechnic's Architecture course all because my 'O' Level Mathematics grade missed entry requirements by 1 single grade. The other of my grades, I would consider quite satisfactory. But, if a candidate fails to meet entry requirements in English, he/she might be allowed in.
I had appealed 3 times, each level higher than the previous one, but was still rejected. I did not appeal to go in the course at first attempt, but appealing to get just a simple interview to prove myself to SP. After first rejection, I appealed through my MP, Kebun Bahru's Mr Inderjit Singh. Finally, I appealed to the highest authority I think could logically help me. MOE. But still, the rigidness of the admissions system hit me with another blow.
I called SP to enquire. The operator for Architecture got the person in charge for Admissions on the line. And she told me something that shocked me. She said "we only interview those who meet entry requirements". That's killing all chances of those who do not meet entry requirements. I was not even given a chance!
I have no other choice but to go (-name of school-) and retake my math, and wasting a year.
I do not know if the new entry system allows for this, but I would like to suggest to you, and MOE, to allow all students rights for course admissions interviews. Give them a chance to show their talent, hidden behind the facade of grades. Give them a chance to prove themselves, to impress the interviewers that they have the talent, aptitude, interest and skill. It's unfair to reject a student all because of their grades. Like judging a book by it's cover. What's most important is the contents. In this case, the talent or aptitude.
Many people I know are not able to get into the course they wanted because of their grades. I would like to suggest every course holding open interviews for those who were intially rejected, but have talent, aptitude or strong keen interest in the course. That should be the case, and the real purpose, instead of only interviewing those who meet entry requirements.
Epitome Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein. When they were young, they were considered 'stupid' and rejected from schools. But later, they become world famous and respected in their respective fields, not shown intially in youth, and not shown in academic grades. Also, there are cases of those intellectually less fortunate, or those with mental disablities showing skills in areas like mathematics or talents in their own fields.
In the decades of rigid purely grades based admissions, makes me ponder how many potential Edisons or Einsteins had the system smothered. How many dreams had been shattered. How many futures ruined. Does academic grades mean everything?
I hope the MOE would take this into serious consideration. Give all students the right for course admissions interviews. I hope to hear some positive news soon.
Thank you for your time.
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Of all my emails to Mr Tharman and MOE, all got replied to.
And not those 'we had received your email' auto messages.
Gving feedback. You can express your anger, BUT don't go overboard, no vulgarities. Sound civilised. No personal attacks, no threats.
Give positive, constructive, logically possible suggestions that benifite the country, society. Like give win-win suggestions. -
And what is "positive, constructive, logically possible?Originally posted by redstone:Of all my emails to Mr Tharman and MOE, all got replied to.
And not those 'we had received your email' auto messages.
Gving feedback. You can express your anger, BUT don't go overboard, no vulgarities. Sound civilised. No personal attacks, no threats.
Give positive, constructive, logically possible suggestions that benifite the country, society. Like give win-win suggestions. -
y dun u post the replies here and indicate what positive action has been done to remedy the problem? You got into SP after all?Originally posted by redstone:Of all my emails to Mr Tharman and MOE, all got replied to.
And not those 'we had received your email' auto messages.
Gving feedback. You can express your anger, BUT don't go overboard, no vulgarities. Sound civilised. No personal attacks, no threats.
Give positive, constructive, logically possible suggestions that benifite the country, society. Like give win-win suggestions.