Thanks for sharing your thoughts and yes they are greatly appreciated. Yes I think I will be teaching later; I observed a number of people with DBA teaching in SMU but only PhD in NTU and NUS, perhaps PhD is more credible then if we want to teach and publish papers?

I don't mind teaching in private institutions or the polytechnics if it gives me great satisfaction; I am looking at work life balance and I do believe that will help a fair bit if I were to stay in Singapore and not move to Australia.

Management in education; that's an interesting thought! I have always thought that doing MBA is more for learning the frameworks and more important, getting into the right networks where the majority of the people are executive or at least managerial levels. Another reason why one might do an MBA is to move from one industry to another.

I am in the IT industry; enjoying my life as a consultant now with loads of travel and the opportunity to work with some really fascinating and smart companies.