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Originally Posted by Unregistered
So far what has been raised in this thread, is that hiring is cut, so to free up singaporean graduates for the workforce, for other sectors.
Reduced hiring of Singaporean teachers doesn't have to be tied to reduced hiring of foreign teachers
To illustrate how ridiculous this thinking is, let's apply the same logic to the healthcare sector
Sg has a shortage of doctors, and doctors work long hours. Should MOH therefore reduce the number of Medicine places in our local unis and hire less Singaporean doctors, so as to free up these bright young minds for other key economic sectors, such as finance, AI or data science (insert hot field) perhaps?
At the same time MOH should not look into hiring of FT doctors, since clearly there's so many bright Singaporean students with straight As applying for a place in sg medical schools, right?
Yet when we visit polyclinics and public hospitals, there are so many FT doctors.
Squeezing teachers dry and endlessly piling on additional work on them is not sustainable nor ethical. |
Agree that it’s unethical to do so.
I’m not supporting
MOE’s HR practice or buying their often repeated narrative ‘critical mass’, but the unspoken fact is that cost of supporting ageing population has risen tremendouly over the years. look at the recent budget and the amount that was allocated to Merdeka/Pioneer/Young Seniors.
Is the pie expanding as fast as our expenses? when we need to spend more than what we have, funds need to be reallocated from elsewhere. This reallocation would need to come from various sources, and education sector is not spared unfortunately. hence, i seriously doubt increasing manpower strength or the teacher-student ratio will happen anytime soon. EOs are expected to be by their students all the time while juggling many admin and menial duties. this is the sad reality for SG teachers.