The 4G team leaders have their work cut out. With much of the infrastructure, systems and financials in place (or at least not in jeopardy), they can do no better than work at creating a better, thinking Singapore society. The 4Gers’ challenge is to make sure they can carry the ground and grow with the voters.
I have been following their political careers and noticed that, apart from Heng who had been with the Monetary Authority of Singapore, all are involved in people areas.
Heng himself, who was Education Minister, has spent time tinkering with the education system and would have a fair idea how to get the best out of our students. Ong Ye Kung is the current Education Minister. Chan Chun Sing, Minister for Trade and Industry, has been with the trade unions and is Deputy Chairman of the People’s Association. He was also Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, and the Minister of State at the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts.
The trio deal directly with people of all ages, especially the young. If their hearts are in the right place, the 4G leaders should realise Singaporeans must be their priority and foreign talents a distant second. Their challenge is, from now until the next Budget, to produce the definitive Budget which will restore an early programme which envisioned Singaporeans getting the best education in Asia, emerging with the best skills and landing the best-paying jobs. Any system which has our youths and citizens playing second fiddle to transients must be thoroughly rejected – together with any political leaders who cannot deliver.
After the passing of the Pioneer and the Merdeka generations, young Singaporeans should turMorn down Budget handouts. They should instead demand a clear vision from the 4G leaders of where they will be in a First World city-state. Not as appendixes to foreign or local elites but as fully-functioning citizens with a say in the lives they lead and the way the country is run.
Can Heng Swee Keat and his team deliver? We have had enough of cookie cutter budgets devoid of any dynamism. Time for an inspirational blueprint.
More - http://theindependent.sg/after-pgp-...douts-and-demand-the-best-education-and-jobs/
I have been following their political careers and noticed that, apart from Heng who had been with the Monetary Authority of Singapore, all are involved in people areas.
Heng himself, who was Education Minister, has spent time tinkering with the education system and would have a fair idea how to get the best out of our students. Ong Ye Kung is the current Education Minister. Chan Chun Sing, Minister for Trade and Industry, has been with the trade unions and is Deputy Chairman of the People’s Association. He was also Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, and the Minister of State at the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts.
The trio deal directly with people of all ages, especially the young. If their hearts are in the right place, the 4G leaders should realise Singaporeans must be their priority and foreign talents a distant second. Their challenge is, from now until the next Budget, to produce the definitive Budget which will restore an early programme which envisioned Singaporeans getting the best education in Asia, emerging with the best skills and landing the best-paying jobs. Any system which has our youths and citizens playing second fiddle to transients must be thoroughly rejected – together with any political leaders who cannot deliver.
After the passing of the Pioneer and the Merdeka generations, young Singaporeans should turMorn down Budget handouts. They should instead demand a clear vision from the 4G leaders of where they will be in a First World city-state. Not as appendixes to foreign or local elites but as fully-functioning citizens with a say in the lives they lead and the way the country is run.
Can Heng Swee Keat and his team deliver? We have had enough of cookie cutter budgets devoid of any dynamism. Time for an inspirational blueprint.
More - http://theindependent.sg/after-pgp-...douts-and-demand-the-best-education-and-jobs/
