Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Bridging Education to Employment

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

We have such lazy thinkers as politicians that there is hardly anyone in recent history who can remotely claim to have inspired the rest of the population to higher heights. That is the main reason why the personal touch is totally absent in closing the gap between what the nation's education system should have as its focus to create greater employment. The majority peasant-minded Saint Lucians love to be led into thinking that their future only lies with the party they support being in power.

April 2, 2013 at 6:13 PM
Anonymous said...

No secret that our education system is flawed and dated. Students are rarely encouraged to use reasoning skills and techniques. Those who can cram have a greater chance at success.

Many are grossly inarticulate - even the smart ones; we've had some examples in Parliament - because there are no speech classes. Instead, we rely on silly elocution competitions and affected inter-school debates where "A pleasant, good afternoon" is bound to feature - uncorrected.

Most students don't encounter complex situational questions - which require deductive analyses - until they're sitting in a university classroom. That is if they're afforded the opportunity to pursue tertiary education via some predatory lending institution.

April 3, 2013 at 5:20 AM
Anonymous said...

Today, our politicians are hell-bent on fooling the students leaving secondary school that there is a job of work that they can do to give a sustainable income.

Hear them on the platform and you would think that they themselves know something about job creation. Yet we all know that since pre-independence days that our political leaders are 99% crapheads who can only win seats and indulge in corruption becoming multi-millionaires in the process. The people are left to repeat empty slogans and their future ignored other than as votes to be gained every five years.

April 3, 2013 at 8:42 PM
Anonymous said...

The more I listen to these politicians, the more perplexed I become. They seem to believe politics is an occupation, when the end-game should really be public service.

We're saddled with perpetual politicians - stuck in election campaign mode - rather than statesmen determined to serve the public's interest. Ideas are supported, or opposed, not based on merit but party loyalty.

And, why can't ministers be assigned to portfolios that match their training and natural capabilities. Moreover, why can't they stay in their lanes?! Simple: do what you're good at. Why are we bombarded with economic advice from guys with PhDs in international relations or plant physiology?

Recently, I heard Dr Fletcher holding forth on matters relating to Wasco. By the end of his statement, I was indeed baffled. His suggestion was that the government simply accept equity in the debt-laden company - as if debt and equity weren't exclusive.

Who sees equity in decades of compounded debt, with even more debt looming?! Someone should tell him there really is no such thing as "debt equity".

A PhD does not automatically make one an expert in all things. It only makes one an expert in a specified area.

April 4, 2013 at 2:36 AM
Anonymous said...

Before anyone attempts to draw a comparison between Wasco and the US government's stake in AIG: remember that AIG is a private insurance company whose debt position was not several decades-old. Before a dime was invested, a complete management overhaul was initiated - no more business as usual. The US government was well aware, too, that sweeping healthcare reform (not just a rise in premiums) would soon place AIG on a path to profitability. The recovery took less than five years.

April 4, 2013 at 4:46 AM

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