Good to hear that RP will be covering Education and not just their favourite hobby horse - economics. Education has always been a hot topic since the first local elections in 1955 and it will keep grabbing attention from iisues such as scholarships for foreigners, over aged foreign students competing with local kids, the curriculum that develops high standard at the apex but delivers less than desirable standards for the rest. Here is one good input -http://www.niaspress.dk/files/excerpts/BarrSk_extract.pdf
Education has to be a key plank in any campaign as every parent has a stake in it. Its about time that the 1979 "Goh Report" debacle be recognised and an attempt be made to wipe the slate clean. Its was GKS's only failure in an illustrious career and I understand that he himself was disappointed with it. Its common knowledge that the team of systems engineers involved prefer not to speak about it. The fact that numerate heavy projections did not pan but initiatives rolled out to meet the projections are still there. Contrary to popular belief, nowhere does Confucianism require a mistake done by a great man has to be undone only after his death. 30 years is a generation lost.
Note the cohorts impacted by the 1979 initiative have not delivered anything significant, we are still searching for creativity, our ability to master a single language let alone 2 languages has gone, we can't articulate to save ourselves, independent thought is a foreign concept.
Education has to be a key plank in any campaign as every parent has a stake in it. Its about time that the 1979 "Goh Report" debacle be recognised and an attempt be made to wipe the slate clean. Its was GKS's only failure in an illustrious career and I understand that he himself was disappointed with it. Its common knowledge that the team of systems engineers involved prefer not to speak about it. The fact that numerate heavy projections did not pan but initiatives rolled out to meet the projections are still there. Contrary to popular belief, nowhere does Confucianism require a mistake done by a great man has to be undone only after his death. 30 years is a generation lost.
Note the cohorts impacted by the 1979 initiative have not delivered anything significant, we are still searching for creativity, our ability to master a single language let alone 2 languages has gone, we can't articulate to save ourselves, independent thought is a foreign concept.
