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In Singapore, we emphasise a little more on technical-based education so much, that we are keeping our Polytechnics from the old British education system, and even expanding them in the past 30 years.
What I am unhappy is, the government restricts university places. For those who are not too technically inclined or able to keep up with studies, like me, we can only resign ourselves to the private education system - or, more probably, unemployment. The stakes are really high.
They are so high that only 5% of Polytechnic graduates eventually go on to Universities in Singapore, and University places are kept for just 25% of Singaporean students. Unlike many other countries, though, there is a deliberate system to maintain an under-supply of professionals working in government-related sectors, such as doctors and teachers, by a combination of interviews and psychometric tests - which, to the very end, still achieve nothing to keep out inept doctors and teachers, despite the screening used.
Those who had made it, have developed both fear (of failure) and exude some sort of arrogance (I did it, and you don't, loser). For those who don't make it - either they try to better themselves and leave the country, or even more highly probably, just resign themselves to Fate.
In Singapore, we emphasise a little more on technical-based education so much, that we are keeping our Polytechnics from the old British education system, and even expanding them in the past 30 years.
What I am unhappy is, the government restricts university places. For those who are not too technically inclined or able to keep up with studies, like me, we can only resign ourselves to the private education system - or, more probably, unemployment. The stakes are really high.
They are so high that only 5% of Polytechnic graduates eventually go on to Universities in Singapore, and University places are kept for just 25% of Singaporean students. Unlike many other countries, though, there is a deliberate system to maintain an under-supply of professionals working in government-related sectors, such as doctors and teachers, by a combination of interviews and psychometric tests - which, to the very end, still achieve nothing to keep out inept doctors and teachers, despite the screening used.
Those who had made it, have developed both fear (of failure) and exude some sort of arrogance (I did it, and you don't, loser). For those who don't make it - either they try to better themselves and leave the country, or even more highly probably, just resign themselves to Fate.
