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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Who is to say it couldn't be easy to import FT teachers in bulk?
Have you looked at the MT depts in schools? Excluding ML teachers, most of the CL and TL teachers are foreigners. Young Singaporean CL and TL teachers are a rarity.
Math is math. Science is science. Pretty sure can import teachers for these subjects easily.
Maybe those localised subjects like social studies might be slightly harder. But not impossible.
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There are considerations on the ground on hiring foreigners. We are a small country very vulnerable to foreign influence and interference. The last thing we want is to open our doors big big to invite potential agents of influence. We are having teens radicalised from online content already. We also have profs or pple of influence who do not want to admit that they are speaking or acting on the interests of other nations - which has led to new laws passed this year to have us make their influences more visible.
Bilingualism is necessary policy for us to stay relevant in the world and region and sadly, due to the local shortage, we have little choice but to "import". We should however still exercise prudence.