Tag Archive: meritocracy

Contradictions On The Slippery Slope Towards The Reserved Elected Presidency

This is a summary of my thoughts that I shared at a Discussion Session with undergraduates from the University Scholars Program at Cinnamon College, NUS on 3 Apr 2017. I was asked to broadly comment on the following issues: Given the varying responses…
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Netizens Angry Over NTU’s Elitist Email

An e-mail sent out by Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) to its final-year students has raised the ire of a number of undergraduates and netizens. Last Wednesday, Mr Joel Chong, a final-year student at…
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Rilla Melati: There Are Good Companies Helmed By Malay Singaporeans

Mini Monsters started off in 2008 as the Education Outreach arm of award-winning Dua M Pte Ltd. The company aims to revise an interest in the Malay language by offering an interesting and fun approach to the teaching of the…
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Ismail Kassim: PAP Leaders Must Ask Themselves If They Are Cowards

To all PAP leaders, watch the Hollywood classic High Noon and ask yourself: Am I a coward? A craven coward, A coward till my grave This is the refrain from the theme song. In this film, a sheriff played by…
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