MOE to stop publishing names of top students?
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sinoboy:
Good for you lor. Newcomer pirates can 飘洋过海 but a lot of us are stuck. That is why I ask after benefiting and head start from GEP, and priority ticket into IP Program, high chance get scholarship to go overseas (if parents don't have the means already), 飘洋过海过后会重回祖国的怀抱吗？ But then again depends on where is the zuguo. Good luck to your plans. :salute:
Who say I \"newcomer pirate\"? We all got \"newcomer\" genes ok? Stop fixating on \"newcomers\". This Kiasu Pirate also knows that apart from the whirlpools and reefs, there are many other buccaneers in fast, modern ships with big cannons out there in the blue yonders. And Yarrr! There be sea monsters too!
Are we a nation of sailors, or are we a nation of landlubbers?
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Melodies:
What we need is DSA for university places. :razz:Err.. good only if you can make it to get scholarship and oversea university.
Competition! Competition and more competition for local Uni..and only few can make it to those top JCs n get to chose and get all the creams la...
:wrongmove:
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pirate:
lol...with this statement, we are going to enter a whole new dimension and endless ranting and emotional statements in KSP......
What we need is DSA for university places. :razz:Melodies:
Err.. good only if you can make it to get scholarship and oversea university.
Competition! Competition and more competition for local Uni..and only few can make it to those top JCs n get to chose and get all the creams la... :wrongmove: -
pirate:
WE HAVE!!!
What we need is DSA for university places. :razz:Melodies:
Err.. good only if you can make it to get scholarship and oversea university.
Competition! Competition and more competition for local Uni..and only few can make it to those top JCs n get to chose and get all the creams la... :wrongmove:
Also comes in a 3 letter package. -
First we must establish the fact that there are people who are more intellectually capable than others. This innate ability will naturally cause some ‘unfairness’ in the education. Until we acknowledge this, we will always cry foul in whatever decision MOE makes.
Why HOT skills are not explicitly taught in mainstream schools? Two reasons.
1. Competency of the students. We must agree that there are different levels of students’ academic abilities. At one extreme end, we have students who have even problems remembering facts and details (LOT skills). The other end we have students who can piece different information together (synergise) and make out new information/concept (synthesis), all these characteristics of HOT skills. ‘O’ level exam as the name implies means ‘ordinary’ which caters to the majority of the population. The exam can’t have too many HOT questions or the back-end cohort will suffer. The IP schools were established to cater to those who can handle these HOT skills and thus were removed from the mainstream schools. This allowed the ‘O’ level exam to be still manageable for the majority while we take in the more capable ones and teach them HOT skills. If a capable student chooses to stay in the ‘O’ level track, that’s his/her choice and we should respect that. The student may or may not have lots of catch up to do if he/she goes to a top JC.
2. Competency of the teachers. Not all teachers are capable in the same manner. Some are good in classroom management, some in admin, some in positive influence and some in planning. I agree that not all my colleagues are good at these qualities I’ve listed above but there is one common quality in all of us: academic ability. Gone were the days when we wondered why some of our JC tutors are so xxx… Many of my colleagues graduated with good class honors and above and with a handful from top uni in the world. We have a few who are protégé of some Nobel prize winners. Several hold PhD degrees and have written textbooks for students’ use. Some others in their free time managed to write and publish their own chain of story books. When equipped with the right teaching techniques, we are effective and efficient to teach our students and inspire them to follow us. Unfortunately this is not the case for every school. Efforts to ‘spread’ these teachers to all schools will result in them being ineffective. -
In conclusion:
In short term I can’t see how and what can be done to make all schools a ‘good’ school, especially at JC level. While I applaud at the efforts now to change the educational landscape at primary school level, I know the mindsets of parents will NOT change until evidence can show how by going to mainstream pri to sec to non IP JC can lead to similar opportunity as opposed to popular pri to IP JC. -
him4mixer:
Wow, gap widening...so no hope liao loh...In conclusion:
The gap between IP and non-IP JCs is widening. Gone were the days where we could hear students from the lower end JCs making it into the medicine or law. One common joke among my ex-students in the law faculty told me: There are only 2 JCs in the Law faculty; RI(JC) and OJC (other JCs). Even within IP schools, the gap is widening too between the govt and independent IP JCs. -
pirate:
Not again! more scheme to provide immunity for competition? :heresmyfish:
What we need is DSA for university places. :razz:Melodies:
Err.. good only if you can make it to get scholarship and oversea university.
Competition! Competition and more competition for local Uni..and only few can make it to those top JCs n get to chose and get all the creams la... :wrongmove: -
sinoboy:
Good for you lor. Newcomer pirates can 飘洋过海 but a lot of us are stuck. That is why I ask after benefiting and head start from GEP, and priority ticket into IP Program, high chance get scholarship to go overseas (if parents don't have the means already), 飘洋过海过后会重回祖国的怀抱吗？ But then again depends on where is the zuguo. Good luck to your plans. :salute:[/quote]Well, that's why we have six-year bonds for many scholarships.pirate:
[quote=\"sinoboy\"]Question is will there be a place for your kid at the point your kid finishes PSLE and wants to go to IP. Assuming your is indeed smart but somehow not smart enough and the newcomers takes up the places you think you deserve what would you do?
No worries. My kid got 'newcomer' genes also. If by hook cannot, there is always by crook... And if still cannot, can send overseas. Pirates got pirate way one.
Dun mistake this for complaint har. No need to please this Kiasu Pirate one. This Kiasu Pirate only wants to know whether the system works like MOE says it does, or whether it is every baby for himself/herself.
I only gather information from other captains and point out where the whirlpools and reefs are. Want to listen, then listen. Don't want to listen, suah.
I got my chart already. Good luck to everybody else.
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Melodies:
Not again! more scheme to provide immunity for competition? :heresmyfish:[/quote]Competition is healthy. :rotflmao:
What we need is DSA for university places. :razz:pirate:
[quote=\"Melodies\"]Err.. good only if you can make it to get scholarship and oversea university.
Competition! Competition and more competition for local Uni..and only few can make it to those top JCs n get to chose and get all the creams la... :wrongmove: :evil:
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