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Knowing the chinese high management, this wouldn't be surprising.

PAP has always had strong links with the CCP. If it took a trivial joint exercise for you to figure it out, I think you're pretty slow. It's also not such a well-kept secret that we are close with the Israelis despite being in a sea of Muslim neighbours. Both links have been useful to us. Say...

True. But don't expect other education systems to be better at building character. Look at America.

I guess we have to disagree. My thinking is - although it's hard to hire teachers per se, for teaching SCHOLARSHIPS there are tons of teenagers dying to sign a bond so that they can see the world for 4 years and then realise it's really no big deal once you've been there. If they knew about the...

Re: Now Singapore Airlines is forced to change Rolls-Royce engines on three superjumb You could tell from day one how Qantas was overzealous in protecting their safety reputation. Tons of newspaper articles pointed out the Rain Man reference. Having such a safety reputation is both a good...

I don't think it's acceptable either way. This paedo was hot for girls in a school environment, of all places. I wouldn't send him to work in schools if I knew.

This is not to say that PSC has never failed. Indeed they have - many times, but just not in this instance. Remember the teaching scholar from years ago who posted racist comments on his blog? That guy was selected by PSC, not MOE. Then about 10 years ago, a President's scholar, no less, was...

That was the very old system. Now there's a new system. Regardless of the scholarship they apply to, everyone first goes through the PSC system. After a quick assessment of grades and CCAs, PSC selects the best people they want to interview - as long as they have PSC as one of their top...

Re: Emigration Matters: Advice Needed + My Thoughtsua doctors seem to be in hot demand by aussie immigration right now. did the policy change so radically in 7 years?

because MOE needs teachers, badly. honestly the standards are not that high, at least for the ministry scholarships.

i see. so if another scholar helps stop a comet from crashing into the earth and causing global human extinction, i suppose you'd recommend that the entire psc panel be made into saints and given automatic places in heaven. hell, no need for that. when a moe scholar does good work as a teacher...

Hm, PSC? What's your source?

It's obvious to see that his roles in GIC and MAS are contingent on his role as minister of MTI. If LHK were Minister of Health do you think he'd be on these boards? What the hell would a Minister of Health be doing on the MAS board? The next MTI minister will also be given seats on GIC and MAS...

sounds to me like he's just playing along. maybe the sarcasm was lost.

Re: Now Singapore Airlines is forced to change Rolls-Royce engines on three superjumb I disagree. Not everyone knows that A380 requires especially powerful engines. Not everyone knows that you couldn't just replace these engines with some earlier models. Not everyone knows that the same...

I don't think the educational system here is perfect either. But for someone to dislike it for no reason other than he failed in it, is bullshit. BTW, I have spent years overseas, and I can tell you that no educational system prepares you for the real world. Some systems focus more on speech...

It's an effective advert. Sounds quite hot, tbh.

Nobody really cares about the vandal. Many people find them a nuisance, including those in more liberal countries. If even the Swiss are arresting and jailing him, you know that nobody's going to make a hero out of him.

What exactly do you need, could you please get to your point? Do you want to emigrate or what? Why do you tell a long-winded and boring story that nobody is interested to hear and which doesn't seem to be remotely related to any advice you might need for emigration? So you dislike Singapore...

The educational system sucks because you were a bad student with low intelligence. What a great insight!