I say, Snobbish people don't deserve a place.

UNIVERSITY ADMISSION
JC students deserve priority

POLYTECHNICS lure students with glossy brochures and spiels about their fabulous courses, but fail to tell them how difficult it is for them to enter local universities via the poly route.

How many 16-year-olds will forgo sexy-sounding courses like communications and finance over subjects like physics, chemistry or mathematics?

Ironically, these polytechnic brochures often boast of how many of their graduates enter university. But they are silent on the reality that employers value degrees more than diplomas.

Polytechnic graduates cannot have it both ways. They must know the Government spends more to train a polytechnic graduate than a junior college (JC) student.

So they cannot expect a second bite of the cherry with the same priority in university admission as JC students who complete two years of school and hold only an A-level certificate.

Polytechnics pride themselves on hands-on training while JCs arm a student with more in-depth grounding in core subjects to prepare them for university.

To JC students, university is and has always been their final destination. To poly students, their end point, in Singapore at least, should be their diploma.

If they want to go beyond that in Singapore, they should choose the JC route. If they do not qualify, it is not the Government's fault.

Nothing should stop them from pursuing their dream overseas, but they cannot expect greater access to local universities just because it is costlier to study abroad.

A place in a good local university is a limited resource and should go to the most deserving; in this case, those who qualify for JC and have consciously decided to take the JC path to prepare themselves for a university education and not a diploma.

In the past, a JC education was called 'pre-university' education, and it is precisely that.

So it is time polytechnic graduates accepted the implications of their decision to choose between polytechnics and JCs, and not gripe that the system is unfair.

Lee Beng Tat

Taken from: ST Forum
http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_514733.html


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I can't believe this guy! He is so........head stuck in the clouds. SERIOUSLY!

How can anybody even write something so offensive, snobbish, and ignorant! Polytechnic should be the end point?? University should go to the most deserving?? Who are you to quantify who are the most deserving people! Just because people go to JC, so they're more deserving? Well, I come from a JC, but I don't see how much more deserving I am to get a place just because I studied a bunch of so-called core subjects that served little purpose to help me through my university syllabus.

Seriously Mr Lee here, have you ever been to a university? Have you counted the number of people topping their cohorts every year? If things go by your most-deserving logic, could you kindly explain the substantial amount of ex-polytechnic students in the dean's list?

And I for one, chose the JC path, because what I wanted to study was only available in university, and not in polytechnic. And for those who chose polytechnic path, does not mean they do not intend to move on to university. What's wrong with honing your applied skills before going to university? I would say it in fact preps one more for university than JC. Why do you think some polytechnic students are allowed direct entry to 2nd year in university? If JC prepares us more for university, why don't they just allow all JC students to admit straight into Year 2??

So, compared to a person who has taken applied stats in polytechnic, and me from JC who took physics, how much more deserving and prepared am I to go to university than a polytechnic student?? I don't get where this chap is coming from, but he obviously has gotten his facts all wrong.

Yes, if JC students do not go to university, they'll end up jobless and useless after A levels. But face it, if you were the university admission team, would you choose an undeserving JC student who screwed up his 'A' levels just so that he won't end out there on the streets begging for food for the rest of his life, or would you choose a straight As polytechnic student already-equipped with relevant skills to continue a more advanced varsity education? So is the university meant to be some charitable organization that admits people so they won't be jobless for the rest of their life, rather than a place to further hone a person's strengths to a fuller potential?

Ok, I sound a tad like I'm putting down myself and other fellow-JC people. But isn't that the reality? At the end of the day, I can only say most JC students only fare slightly better in language as compared to polytechnic students (and it's not even always the case). I don't feel polytechnic students fare any or much worse in maths, science, or other arts subjects (well, depending on whether their module was arts- or science-oriented).

More importantly, polytechnic students have gone through 3 years of varsity education already, and while JC students come from a more rigorous/rigid/rod-learning environment prior to university. I don't see why polytechnic students should be valued any less than JC students, yea?

Yes, I do agree that a place in university should be given to the most deserving people. But please do not quantify a whole group of people blindly as deserving just because they come from a certain background. Open your eyes wide and remove those "colored-glasses" that blind you. There are more deserving people out there than that small little well you are looking out of.

Last day of school!

Haha i'm like blogging in the hss library now. It feels damn odd.

Just had my malay oral and was stumbling like all the way! Hahahaa. Lucky I s/u-ed alrdy :p So i'm damn free now coz meeting my spanish oral peeps at 2.30pm to rehearse and blah for the oral test later. And not unintentionally I bought nothing to study or do. And that explains why i'm feeling odd to be surfing fb in the library when everybody around seems to be studying or rushing some assignment or another. Haha.

It's the last day of school for me today! Well, excluding exams lah. Haha. And the last day of school started out BAHHHHHHHH bad.

Train got delayed coz there were some track problems in Tanah Merah. So it stopped at Tampines for like 15min, and another 10min at Simei, before I decided I should just go get a cab coz i'm gonna be late for Malay oral. So I went down and saw a whole mob of angry people headed by one gungho alpha male shouting angrily at the control station people. Well, I probably would have stayed to find out more about refunding if I were not rushing for time. Hahaa. Anyway, I walked out of the MRT station, and everywhere was swarming with cabs, cabs with passengers -.-''' And everywhere was swarming with people waiting for cabs. So I had to walk up further and walk and walk for like another 10-15min before I managed to flag down an empty cab. And then I wasn't really prepared to take a cab, you see. So when I reached NTU I wanted to pay by card, only to realise the cabbie had no nets visa masters whatsoever. So I dug out all the cash I have, and was...10 cents short of the cab fare. -_-''' Haha cabbie uncle was nice enough to let me off, but I felt damn paiseh!

Yes, that was how I found my way to my last day in school. Hahaa. Ok, shall prepare to go off for my meeting now. Hope the spanish oral goes ok later! Never s/u this time cannot play play liao! Hahaaa.

Meeting lovely tonight, yay! Happy 28th month, darling! :)

I Will Always Love You

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果然是人不可貌相。厉害吧！
今年24岁了哦，看不出吧？

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Haha i'm here again, when i'm escaping from work as usual! :p

Supposed to be writing my spanish oral script. =X

Anyways, Malay test was over yesterday!! That marked the lastest test i'm ever gonna have in my entire university life! Well, excluding examinations of coz. And err, 1 more listening test, and 2 more orals next week. Haha. Every semester, towards the last 1-2 weeks, I would start cursing myself for taking language classes coz the bulk of the work's always towards the end. Hahaaa. Oh well, it's the last sem! :p

Well, for the last 3 months of taking Malay, i've been having issues with the teacher and needless to say, due to fyp, I haven't had time to sit down proper to revise my stuff. So i've been complaining endlessly about the horrors of it. And on Tuesday afternoon, after submitting my fyp, I finally sat down proper to start studying, and I suddenly realised it's so much easier than I expected! -.- Yea, I still have issues with the teacher anyway, but at least it's a self-studiable thing. Haha.

And the test was quite doable too anyways =X Bah. Alright, I feel so cheated of my s/u now. Hahahaa. AH well. I should stop studying too much for it and focus on my Spanish now. Lol. I ended up not s/uing it -.-

My spanish teacher's not been feeling well for the entire sem. So finally yesterday, she didn't come for class, and guess who came to take over the class? My levels 1/2 teacher!!! :) :) Gee, I missed her so so much!! Hahaha. I don't really have anything against the level 3 teacher; and in fact, I think she's really good, very nice and very dedicated to teaching us too. But I guess, it's more about being used to the past 2 levels' style of teaching already. Haha :p So I was soooooo happy during class yesterday coz somehow felt I could understand better lidat =X Ahhh. So sad, that was the last lesson already. Hahaa. Anyway, my levels 1/2 teacher REMEMBERS ME!! Wuhahaha.. Ok, it's no amazing feat; but imagine you teach at least 4 or 5 classes every semester of over 25 students per class, it's no joke to remember names ok. Hahaha.

Ok, i'm just trying to make myself happy. Lol. Righhhht. Shall go start my oral script. Can't wait for post-fyp steamboat with the manics tonight!!! :D Tee hee.

Oh yea, xian and I took odd looking photos before we submitted our fyp report. Haha. Shall upload them after taking more photos tonight. Hahaa. I didn't promise to upload them immediately by tonight though :p

Ciao!

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YAY!!! =) =)

Finally no more reports for....some years at least? Hahaa.

GOOD RIDDANCE APA FORMAT, I WON'T MISS YOU!!!

Hahahaa. Everything would be just about perfect if I don't have a test and a meeting tmr. Sighh.

Whatever, I'm still hopping happy!! :D

S/U deadline today!! And i'm not decided about Spanish yet! How how how.

Have tried permutations of my gpa, but it looks like a pretty 50-50 thingy. Sigh. Why am I even taking such a long time to decide? Pondering on it for too long makes me want to revoke my Malay S/U as well =X Haha.

Help! Menolong! Me ayuda! Aides-moi!