The most important aim of education is to prepare one for a career. Do you agree?
The most important aim of education is to prepare one for a career. Do you agree?
The Graduate Employment Survey (GES) is conducted annually to survey the employment outcomes of the graduates, about six months after completing their final examinations. The 2012 survey is the first to be conducted jointly by NUS, NTU and SMU. The Ministry of Education publishes the results of the key employment indicators of the survey to provide prospective students with timely and comparable data to assist them in making informed course decisions. 14,067 graduates from the three publicly-funded universities were surveyed and the overall response rate obtained was 73%. Since majority of the students were able to find jobs within 6 months of their graduation, this means that they have the skills required for the job, which means that schools have equipped their students well for the job. I personally believe that the most important aim of education is to prepare one for a career. For Singapore, a large part of education is devoted to ensuring that students have a general foundation of content knowledge and education also provides one with specific and social skills.
Firstly, a large part of education is devoted to ensuring that students have a general foundation of content knowledge. An average student in Singapore spends 6 years in Primary School, where she has to grasp a foundation of English, Mother Tongue, Science and Mathematics. She then spends four or five years in Secondary School building upon this foundation of knowledge by branching out into more specific areas of study such as Science and Mathematics. Why? The answer can be found by looking at the industries needed for the country to function. In Singapore, we have industries such as Medicine, Accounting, Banking and Finance, Sales, Engineering so on so forth. As many industries require workers skilled in Mathematics and or Science, it is necessary to focus on these subjects in the education system in order to produce
The Graduate Employment Survey (GES) is conducted annually to survey the employment outcomes of the graduates, about six months after completing their final examinations. The 2012 survey is the first to be conducted jointly by NUS, NTU and SMU. The Ministry of Education publishes the results of the key employment indicators of the survey to provide prospective students with timely and comparable data to assist them in making informed course decisions. 14,067 graduates from the three publicly-funded universities were surveyed and the overall response rate obtained was 73%. Since majority of the students were able to find jobs within 6 months of their graduation, this means that they have the skills required for the job, which means that schools have equipped their students well for the job. I personally believe that the most important aim of education is to prepare one for a career. For Singapore, a large part of education is devoted to ensuring that students have a general foundation of content knowledge and education also provides one with specific and social skills.
Firstly, a large part of education is devoted to ensuring that students have a general foundation of content knowledge. An average student in Singapore spends 6 years in Primary School, where she has to grasp a foundation of English, Mother Tongue, Science and Mathematics. She then spends four or five years in Secondary School building upon this foundation of knowledge by branching out into more specific areas of study such as Science and Mathematics. Why? The answer can be found by looking at the industries needed for the country to function. In Singapore, we have industries such as Medicine, Accounting, Banking and Finance, Sales, Engineering so on so forth. As many industries require workers skilled in Mathematics and or Science, it is necessary to focus on these subjects in the education system in order to produce