A thought…
A guy jumped down to the mrt train rails depressed me and make me pitied him. His family is totally penniless. They survive with cup noodles everydae. His wife dun even have money for transport fee. It depressing to see there are someone in Singapore who is still in poverty state.
I think it is really crucial for the government to enforce re-training of our workforce. Moreover, it is really time for the government to understand clearly what they want to develop. In the areas of school, they should only open a specific number of places such that everyone, well mostly everyone can get a job in that sector. I tink the government has not done that at all.
Let me quote as an example. The newspaper article about life science graduates are unable to get a job after they graduate. Why? Because Singapore has only a few life science sector and why are they opening up so many places in life science in NUS? I can tell u it is about 800+.
Worst of all, many of the people I know graduate with a degree but end up either without jobs or unable to find a job related to their field at all. Then, what is the use of the knowledge you learn in university? Especially it is ridiculous that government says that tertiary training is for the workforce. What is the use of getting a masters degree but unable to use that knowledge in the workforce?
It is also really terrifying that the education system has moulded into the system of only one answer is right and always refer to answer key. Why? Cause we are trained to do that!
Back to poor man example.why has the govt unable to recognise their family and reach out to help them?! There are so many questions in my mind now.
