On the unimportance of a good education in S"pore

[Leepotism]

OPINION: Singapore leaders seek to reduce local graduates as mass intake of foreigners led to excess supply of degree holders

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[chootchiew]

简直是 胡说八道 吃狗屎巴

 

[Sir_Fcuk]

KEE CHIU had more scholarships (MOE, SAF, President's, Lee Kuan Yew postgraduate scholarship) and all sorts of courses (except maybe less intercourse) than all the bros and sis here.

Opinion: He should shut the F up

 

[Troll]

I am not pro-PAP, far from it I am as anti as any others.

But, truth is there would come a time when supply for degree holders far exceeds the demand. We are already seeing signs of this worldwide, where underemployment becomes a trend. When you have people not working in the chosen profession they were trained for, that's underemployment.

Now every mother farther son and their dog also want to get a degree, I suspect such a time might come really soon.

The other side of the coin, is that there are ample examples of well to do people, maybe not billionaires like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, but multi-millionaires who followed their dreams, lived their passion, and do exceedingly well in their chosen vocation. Many of such people certain do better than the typical run-of-the-mill degree holders who think they got it made simply because they graduate with a good honours degree.

At its best, a degree might help people to get through the doors when looking for a job. But not having one doesn't necessarily keep you outside the door. And certainly thriving in any chosen vocation has very little to do with the quality or quantity of one's paper qualifications.

 

[Showdown]

OPINION: Singapore leaders seek to reduce local graduates as mass intake of foreigners led to excess supply of degree holders

Ok so don't have to do well in school then.

 

[Leongsam]

A degree only has value when it is a scarce commodity.

In my day there was only ONE local university that mattered.

The only way to get in was to do well enough in your A levels. You had ONE shot at qualifying... perhaps two if you had the stamina to repeat a whole year of A levels as a private candidate.

Getting a place meant you were in the top 2%.

With a 2nd Upper Hons degree or better and you were pretty much guaranteed a cushy job with a good starting salary. General degrees had a market value of only $465 per month in the civil service or stat boards.

Degrees nowadays are given out like pink ICs and Permanent Residence so they mean nothing.