Fake degrees should not be allowed to spoil the market
The recent spate of falsified degrees is something that should not be tolerated ("Put up authoritative list of degree mills" by Dr Daniel Ng Peng Keat; "Degree mills: S'pore must stay one step ahead" by Mr Harvey Neo, Forum Online, both published last Thursday; and "Work pass, PR applicants who lie to be 'dealt with firmly'";...
What SG needs: Balanced, reasoned, diverse and plausible alternatives
Between Mindless Conformity and Mindless Hysteria @Chris, Pink Floyd’s comfortable numbness reminds me of Herbert Marcuse’s critique of modern societies in One Dimensional Man where he wrote: ‘A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress’. When...
Irresponsible spending by PA on student propaganda
I'm worried that tax monies are being used by the People's Association in a thinly veiled attempt to politicise tertiary students. "To celebrate the nation’s 50th birthday, the People’s Association Youth Division, together with all Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs) and Institutes of Technical Education (ITEs), will be...