Chan Chun Sing on how some black sheep in the tuition industry can hurt the entire education sector

[DynamiteZerg]

Utter nonsense.

A tuition center is there to make money
If they don't "value add" to the students then it will close down soon

And calling people black sheep.
In other countries, agencies will band together and demand he apologize

Stupid ignoramus clown

Because he is the biggest black sheep of all....

 

[FrogGreen]

precisely. the ''streaming' system in gahmen schools also pre-select the students what.

imho, tuition centers and tuition teachers are able to add value education to students who are not able to maintain or improve their grades. even remedial classes in school add marginal improvements to students in general because although the classes might be smaller in number of students, its still the same struggling students the teacher has to teach with only so much time.

end of the day, big classes = less quality. MOE just trying to spin their way out of spending more money on education.

TBF, CCS attempts at reforming/restructuring the educational system is applaudable because his previous 4 predecessors did almost nothing but pussyfooted around the problems. it will take an entire generation of students to see if whatever they are doing works.

But people just want to bash ccs for the sake of bashing .

 

[dambio]

Then schools provide tuition services at cheaper rate also can. Tutors all also vetted by moe lor. Plus cannot choose students also.

 

[NintendoSwitch]

Minister for Education Chan Chun Sing was speaking at an event for a graduating cohort of National Institute of Education (NIE) teachers, jointly held by NIE, the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) on Feb. 11.

It's juz signalling regulation lah. First they did it to the insurance industry, then the real estate industry, nao ish time to do it to the tuition industry. Means there will be compulsory continuous education and training courses to attend and also licensing fees to pay to his newly created authority. Probably also means there will be some form of registration test for tutors and licensing test for tuition centre key appointment holders. Collect lots of money and their kakis can setup courses that tutors must attend (must pay money hor). Those of you in insurance or real estate will see is exactly the model 3G took in the past 2 decades. Around 2000 happened to insurance. Around 2010 happened to real estate. Now 10 years later cumming for tuition industry. What will Xiasuay name it? Council of Tutors (CoT)?

 

[jumpthepig]

Not parents? Mahahahha

virus - virus spreads mainly between people who are in close contact with each other.. Toxic tutor to parents and children, then from one parent to other parents……like covid

 

[Purplestars]

Tell him not to pre-select students for government scholarships based solely on good grades.

If they do that, what value are they actually adding to the students?

Tell him to be perturbed by that.

 

[miko66]

He talk so much, got any concrete steps to address the problem to get rid of black sheep? No action, no pt talk so much

Precisely

Nowadays our leaders only good at talking cock !

Good at monitoring !

So many cockups !

No blame culture
No accountability kns

And guess which joker made the following comment ?

"Our jobs as leaders is not to provide the answers but to bring out the answers from everybody, that is perhaps already in their minds. That is how I see my role."

Sinkies are daft and asking for it ..

 

[Visor9999]

It’s best for MOE to take over all tuition centres. Need more regulation

 

[NintendoSwitch]

To have tuition this kind of third party education to supplement the main, shows that the govt led education system has failed

The rot starts from teacher training where they are told that spelling doesn't matter. Grammar doesn't matter. As long as can guess what the student ish writing can oredi. Furthermore STELLAR system deemphasises grammar, hoping that pupils can pick up grammar rules somehow without explicitly teaching them. Dats how u end up wif sec 1 students who can neither spell nor string a grammatically correct sentence together.

Oh, plus their whole emphasis on promoting Singlish as part of fostering the national identity destroyed at least two whole generations of students.

 

[KPO_SAHM]

Minister for Education Chan Chun Sing was speaking at an event for a graduating cohort of National Institute of Education (NIE) teachers, jointly held by NIE, the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) on Feb. 11.

Sing tution business is big business lor.....imagine the tax generated ....


Below $1.8B , does the data included freelance tutors (just wondering whether they declared tax or not, specially Stay home mothers) ??? If no then the total amount spent by parents annually is so significant lor


https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...llion-on-private-tuition-for-children-in-2023

 

[born2fly]

Arrest them and put them in jail lah......

 

[jumpthepig]

The issue is that tuition centres are money making entities.

Tuition centres claim that their methods are helping students with their school work and scores, which is alright if they just accept anyone and if almost everyone's grades improve

But when tuition centress accept only the best and claim that their methods produce the 90RP students, better than what MOE schools can do, something is wrong.

Amongst MOE schools, and it is not something unspoken ie it is widely mentioned, the good schools are only good because it accepts the best students. Other schools that do not accept the best students, the value add is easily observed here.

The biggest problem - Parents become Paranoia…. After putting all their money in tuition centres, then Kpkb children are too expensive. They cannot afford raising many kids….. Root cause- Tuition Fee cause sinkies low fertility rate, till extinct soon.

 

[Suporter]

Black cotton comes from black sheep. No good meh ?

 

[focus1974]

He should piss on the floor and take a good look at his supposed educators.

The reason why so many are going for tuition is because the teachers do not do their jobs properly. They are just more interested to meet their KPI, do all the bo liao projects to score points so that they are get a better performance grade. Teaching is expected, so those who teach well doesn’t score more performance points, thus they don’t bother. Some HOD friend can even complain about pupils who do not have tuition outside. KNN, do your ****ing job.

Making your education sector look bad? Ya, the tuition sector doing your job properly for you makes your team look bad coz they are not bothered.

quote for truth (my version anyway..)

 

[spinning_quirK]

So black sheep in school management or among the teachers in schools won't hurt entire education sector (because a Minister didn't say so)?

 

[spinning_quirK]

He should piss on the floor and take a good look at his supposed educators.

The reason why so many are going for tuition is because the teachers do not do their jobs properly. They are just more interested to meet their KPI, do all the bo liao projects to score points so that they are get a better performance grade. Teaching is expected, so those who teach well doesn’t score more performance points, thus they don’t bother. Some HOD friend can even complain about pupils who do not have tuition outside. KNN, do your ****ing job.

Making your education sector look bad? Ya, the tuition sector doing your job properly for you makes your team look bad coz they are not bothered.

Wifey was unfairly slammed with below-average teacher grade for so many donkey years because she just wants to teach, want to value-add to students via cca, and doesn't want to do those dumb kpi things. And who set the kpi and the bell curve grading system? MOE HQ. Who grades the teachers? Immediate supervisors who benefit from the kpis being fulfilled.

 

[spinning_quirK]

The issue is that tuition centres are money making entities.

Tuition centres claim that their methods are helping students with their school work and scores, which is alright if they just accept anyone and if almost everyone's grades improve

But when tuition centress accept only the best and claim that their methods produce the 90RP students, better than what MOE schools can do, something is wrong.

Amongst MOE schools, and it is not something unspoken ie it is widely mentioned, the good schools are only good because it accepts the best students. Other schools that do not accept the best students, the value add is easily observed here.

That's why praise needs to be given to ACS, not brickbats. They are trusting in a higher power's leading (and not fearing man's reaction) when they decided to relocate more than 2 km from the fancy houses in BT.
I highly suspect a new ACS school may spawn at the Barker site though.

 

[TanSG]

CCS might as well implement a policy to make it mandatory for schools to accept students into any CCAs that the students want to try during their secondary schools.

Currently many schools only accept the best into certain CCAs through selection exercise (eg RGS’s & Nanyang Girls’s tennis) so that the school can compete at national level. Anyone with keen interest but no prior experience will be outright rejected and not even given a chance to try out that CCA for a period of maybe a year or so. Is that what our Education Minister want to inculcate to our younger generation, that you’ll have no chance if you’re not the elite?

 

[spinning_quirK]

end of the day, big classes = less quality. MOE just trying to spin their way out of spending more money on education.

TBF, CCS attempts at reforming/restructuring the educational system is applaudable because his previous 4 predecessors did almost nothing but pussyfooted around the problems. it will take an entire generation of students to see if whatever they are doing works.

Every time a DGE or deputy DGE comes out to speak against smaller classes giving a host of excuses, it's the Minister's fault.

If things go well, Minister takes the praise. If things don't go well, Minister should take the flak right?

 

[Coaster]

Minister for Education Chan Chun Sing was speaking at an event for a graduating cohort of National Institute of Education (NIE) teachers, jointly held by NIE, the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) on Feb. 11.

Seriously, he is saying that tuition centre pre-select students ? He got proof that the student has 4A1 before going for tution ? I don't think he can ever prove it. So...

can POFMA ?