First World education system
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At the tertiary level, the United States continues to produce a high proportion of highly qualified people, but other countries are catching up.
In the United States some 39% of the adult population aged 25-to-64 years are qualified to the tertiary level, well above the OECD average of 31%. These attainment rates have been historically very high but now other countries are matching and exceeding this attainment level .
Some 53% of today¡¦s young people in OECD countries will enter a university level or equivalent (Tertiary-type A) programme during their lifetime. These entry rates are 70% or more in Australia, Finland, Iceland, Poland and Sweden and as high as 89% in NewZealand.
Rising levels of tertiary attainment seem not to have led to an ¡nflation of the labour-market value of qualifications:
In general, countries have seen an increase in the earnings advantage for tertiary graduates even in countries where tertiary expansion has been rapid. Among the countries in which the tertiary attainment grew by 5% or more between 35-to-44-yearolds and 25-to-34-year-olds, Spain is the only country in which the rapid expansion in tertiary attainment was associated with a significant decline in the wage premium that tertiary attainment attracts during the period 1997 to 2004. -
ok so? -
So how?Originally posted by allentyb:
ok so? -
Originally posted by turbo_drift:So how?
how i know?
i don't care
and i don't give a damn
i just know
if singapore going to claim to has first class education system
i will probably lol@his face -
Our system is so pathetic that even those from jc supposedly qualified for undergraduate study any time in USA, must compete with ' O ' level holders for poly places!
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Our students are anytime better than some FTs they bring in to Spore.
Our poly should be ungraded to Universities to accept students from dip graduates and JC students who are shut out by the elitist system.
Spore education system needs a revamp. -
One of my friend at UK at 18 years old hor, compare to SG ppl at 18 year old GOT big difference de leh..
SG 18 year old kid= dota.
UK 18 year old kid already planning they future liao. And the interlectual level is very different. Ours is much lower than theirs. -
See no reason why we can't have more local graduates if the government is opening the door ever so wide for the world to compete with us.
Lots of local talents are left uptapped. All the poly graduates are more than capable to enrol and meet the requirements of many overseas universities.
Spore education has too many elimination stages. And it starts way too early at the tender age of 10. Such a system is detrimental to psychological well-being of our students. It is not humane and demeaning to segragrate a kid from the rest at an developmental stage.
To deny our student a chance to fulfill his or her dreams whilst open the door to FT, is not the way to go! -
Big surprise. The Govt is simply imposing its ideal of a scholar onto everyone, akin to forcing a brick into an extruder, and then casting aside the broken pieces when they don't fit the mould.Originally posted by qpicanto:See no reason why we can't have more local graduates if the government is opening the door ever so wide for the world to compete with us.
Lots of local talents are left uptapped. All the poly graduates are more than capable to enrol and meet the requirements of many overseas universities.
Spore education has too many elimination stages. And it starts way too early at the tender age of 10. Such a system is detrimental to psychological well-being of our students. It is not humane and demeaning to segragrate a kid from the rest at an developmental stage.
To deny our student a chance to fulfill his or her dreams whilst open the door to FT, is not the way to go!
It is another shining example of hypocrisy. -
I think SIngapore's own Universities like NUS and NTU wanna be the TOP in the world mah. So they only accept the best student locally and international. While other countries university provides the opportunities for every citizens to study a course which they like.Originally posted by qpicanto:See no reason why we can't have more local graduates if the government is opening the door ever so wide for the world to compete with us.
Lots of local talents are left uptapped. All the poly graduates are more than capable to enrol and meet the requirements of many overseas universities.
Spore education has too many elimination stages. And it starts way too early at the tender age of 10. Such a system is detrimental to psychological well-being of our students. It is not humane and demeaning to segragrate a kid from the rest at an developmental stage.
To deny our student a chance to fulfill his or her dreams whilst open the door to FT, is not the way to go!
IF NUS and NTU starts of lower down their recruitment standards, our Universities will be very far from the top ones. -
Why can't we have 1st and 2nd tier universities ?
Is Govt wanting to make money from the value it create in these 2 varsities? -
It's all about making money and ensuring that their brand of ideology stays.
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Of course. It creates a dependency which is not breakable unless one has the cash.Originally posted by LazerLordz:It's all about making money and ensuring that their brand of ideology stays.
The Govt is the ULTIMATE provider for everything. -
In Australia , tradesmen are the new rich - your regular plumbers, carpenters , car mechanics , electricians .......
My friend , a degree holding nurse , married a plumber who earns around 1 million a year from his plumbing business - he only went to trade school. They own a nice house in a working class suburb , and they are the cash paying sort. No credit cards.
Even in Singapore, plumbers come and do a job at your house for around 60-120 for a simple blockage problem.