I agree that Singapore has a strong culture of education and learning and students are learning well. However, sometimes there are students that find it very difficult to learn. Therefore, I suggest that MOE can help students learn better by creating a new school specially for those students that are slower in learning. If fact, students can go to that school every weekend or so to learn better.
Next is the workers. Some workers does not have the capability to pay to learn. Therefore i suggest that Government can create some Sponsorship to aid the workers to pay for learning. E.g. Government can find organisation to add funds and the funds are used to help workers for basic learning such as English language.
Second, a culture of seeking knowledge, innovation and ideas.
I do not agree with this sentence spread their passion for research, and nurture and groom young scientists among our top students. If only the top students are given chance to become better, how about those people that are interested in this but are unable to achieve due to poor in studies? Therefore, i suggest that Government can get the top scientist to groom our top students and those students that are not very good in academic result but are interested should be given a chance to try it out, at least become a lab assistant. This would then allow everyone to be able to do what they want to do.
Three, for Singapore to be a vibrant global city - a city where people want to live, work and play - it also has to be an environmentally sustainable city.
Although Singapore have the opportunity to be at the forefront of successful urban living - which is connected, safe, sustainable and socially integrated, Singapore must still stay green to keep the environment clean and healthy for everyone to live. As the speech said that the world consumed over 75 per cent of its natural resources, therefore Singaporean must do their job by reducing the waste of natural resources. I suggest that Government can create one day when everyone does not need to work and carry out a "Green Day" event. This event is not the same as all the previous "Go Green" day. This event is that everyone in their household take out those things that are no longer useful and are able to be recycled and bring it down to their household nearby Community Center. All the Community Center would then send those things to a particular area for collection. The items would then be sent to recycle. This would help Singapore to be a clean and green country.
Four, a magnet for talent.
In order to increase birth rate, I suggest that Government can come up with a "Babies Needed" plan. In this plan, Government can suggest that if a couple give birth to their first babies, they would receive a sum of money as baby bonus. For those couple that are too poor even to feed themselves, Government can provide subsidies for their children and also maybe give them a sum of money per year to aid them to feed the baby. Government can also provide jobs to those poor people so that they are able to put food on the table.
For attracting foreign talent, Government can also provide a special immigrate plan for foreign talent, such as securing them a place to stay. This would be able to attract foreign talent to Singapore.
For local talent, Government can also provide chance to those people that are really very talented in doing something and send them out of Singapore to learn from foreigner and come back when they have completed the course. This can enhance Singapore's number of local talent. With local talent, only minimum number of foreign talent is needed.
Five, a strong and forward-looking leadership.
Every time when there is a selection of ministers, almost all the Singaporean have a chance to vote. However, I suggest that selection of ministers should not rely only on citizens voting. Prime Minister and President should also cast their vote. Because only the higher authority people know how well those people under the selection of ministers does their job. If the citizens voting resulted in a low leadership minister, it would definitely harm the country's future.
Above is my comment and suggest towards the article "How Singapore can stay 'Forever Young'"
By Winston
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