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Education / Employment

I fell out with Megatron, my arch-rival. He says when one is not great, he cannot bring acceptance for his being as a person. He doesn't accept substandard work, even if they're the best the person can give. Doesn't he know that some people are just struggling to survive? Try being unemployed...
The world seems to need division of labour and specialisation, though they are incomplete, without a basic core of values to guide them along, in order to survive. DPM Tharman commented on a speech that in Singapore and in many industrialized countries, a general degree is ''less highly...
When one bright student suddenly experienced low grades in school or college, help should be immediately given. I know this because I was once one such student myself. I did not do well in exams despite reasonably high motivation and competence, due to personal issues regarding disappointment...
Well, is it? It?s something that popped my mind recently. In this day and age there?s a lot of digital stuff going on and less involves actual contact with (excuse the redundancy) actual people. A few examples - Recently I read an article about cutting back on the government instated...
As a member of the JC PDSN community, we face a few challenges. (1) We do not have employable skills. JCs don't teach them. We are trained to be academics, not employees of a firm. So when we go to the job market even after university, we will lose out to other job entrants who have 'job...
This situation applies to Holland, not the US/UK... however, I think it's something everyone can consider food for thought. Back when I was a teen, I was worried. Cause at some day, I realized... in a few years I'm 18, and I have to enlist in the army. And be in the army for about a year or...
I had this debate with a pro-Establishment Facebook user, True Blue Singaporean: Has Singaporean universities admitted too few students? Consider the facts: In Hong Kong, one-third of the high school level students do not get into university. In Singapore, the rate is half (if we include...
The President's Scholarship is a scholarship given to the top students in Singapore, who have the best grades in the high school leaving examinations (actually, the Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education Advanced Levels) who display leadership potentials and sound character. This...
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