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T money degrees for cash/favors means students learn teh key lesson early bow to the powerful or be crushed mercilessly without recourse.
Awards degrees , theses are all phoney and unrelated to merit
Faking merit and pie in the sky will never end in a society that believes in reincarnation one of the reasons its attractive to live here where even a moderately educated foreigner can survive in an infantilized society.
Interestingly lower attainment corruption and student debt seems to be adopted in other places, Darwin will have the last laugh
Yet they are miffed when real quality control say of International Aviation to objective standards cannot be bought,
The Chinese have attempted to make Slyam efficient , lean and clean like Singapore or Hong Kong but there are so many feral loafers and immigrants myself included to ensure torpor prevails in paradise
Attendance is one thing they need to improve on. Went to central at opening time yesterday and as usual as at any time in the day it was packed with kids in School uniform. I don't know what the cinema, the food courts or Santa Fe steak house etc would do without them. Not a few dozen but a couple of hundred there day after day.
Overloading kids with extra school isn't the answer. Parents need to spend more time with their kids at home instead of fobbing them off elsewhere so that they can have their nails done. Parents also need to understand that learning at school is a small part of it.
For the education system to tangibly improve, first you have to overcome the power and obstructionism of the stifling Education bureaucracy. Mainly, by shrinking it. The Junta has granted itself the power- but seems more interested in treating school as a tool for indoctrination, rather than an educational institution. The dreaded T, to his credit, at least tried- although I don't think he really got much further than talking about it, but his principles of accountability and shrinking the largely redundant, obstructive bureaucracy were at least sound. Thus, he earned himself the undying hatred and enmity of the Educational bureaucracy, and Government bureaucrats in general. Powerful enemies, indeed- the top jobs in the bureaucracy do not necessarily go to the brightest people, they go to the 'connected people'- cushy jobs, little accountability, generous superannuation provisions & other perks, and several opportunities to 'supplement one's income'. It proved to be one of his fatal errors, correct in principle though he was.
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