Met someone who told me that about these Irish girls in Alexandra Hospital and chat with others revealed that we have people from US, Australia, UK, NZ, India, Philippines etc in the hospital system who have taken up nearly all the posts associated with para-medical care from medical scientist, sonographers, medical technicians, radiographers, various types of therapists, specialist care etc. Also heard that these people were provided with subsidised rental on entry.
These are quality jobs with requisite skill sets and with university degrees. These are jobs that can see the local vocation holder thru retirement as it is real job and with an ageing population, highly desirable and in demand. Don't tell me these too like nursing are classified as low value.
What happened to our education system. Why are we churning out kids from ITE, Poly with business studies, media, PR, and all these fluffy qualifications when I am sure most of them can be trained to do these jobs. They are now in the PMET category and easily replaced. There is no barrier to entry. No formal qualification to get in the first place.
We pay the highest salary to the cabinet and we are in this dire situation we. What the hell have the various Ministers of Education over the last 25 years done. Get the impression they spend more time with EDB allowing commercial schools and foreign universities to set up operations here to cater for 3rd world citizens to send their kids to study here. Our own kids are neglected. And we are proud to be noted for being a major regional educational hub. Seems like EDH did its job but not the rest.
These are quality jobs with requisite skill sets and with university degrees. These are jobs that can see the local vocation holder thru retirement as it is real job and with an ageing population, highly desirable and in demand. Don't tell me these too like nursing are classified as low value.
What happened to our education system. Why are we churning out kids from ITE, Poly with business studies, media, PR, and all these fluffy qualifications when I am sure most of them can be trained to do these jobs. They are now in the PMET category and easily replaced. There is no barrier to entry. No formal qualification to get in the first place.
We pay the highest salary to the cabinet and we are in this dire situation we. What the hell have the various Ministers of Education over the last 25 years done. Get the impression they spend more time with EDB allowing commercial schools and foreign universities to set up operations here to cater for 3rd world citizens to send their kids to study here. Our own kids are neglected. And we are proud to be noted for being a major regional educational hub. Seems like EDH did its job but not the rest.
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