
Dr Chee: The politics of elitism behind the JC-merger
AN EDUCATION MINISTRY official pleaded that the decision to merge eight junior colleges (JCs), ostensibly because of low enrollment and a falling birthrate. was made in agony. Falling birthrate? The public was having none of it. If a reduced population is the reason, Singaporeans asked, then why was a new JC, Eunoia, set up...

School mergers: PAP government should disclose its plans for land redevelopment
The PAP government has used the excuse of a 20% lower cohort size to merge 28 schools. It has refused to disclose the government’s plan to redevelop the land besides stating that they will be returned to SLA. In any democratic country, the issue would have been raised in Parliament, involving all stakeholders. For the profit-seeking...

Elected President: Oh, what a tangled web we weave (cont)
Click to enlarge Further to this on “Ownself veto ownself” procedures on vetoing the president’s decision, if he refuses to make the “right” decision, I reflected further on Oh, what a tangled web we weave when via the u/m I double confirmed that the presumptive Malay president’s father was an Indian Muslim. (Btw,...
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