QUOTE(funnyTONE @ Jan 14 2020, 02:22 PM)
Yeah, well I'm just skeptical.
I do know Tun has the capacity, but he does not have the luxury of time.
I remember during the 90s, he envisioned for malaysia to have 20k engineers by 2020, so back then, they had sekolah menengah teknik all across the states. Almost every IPTA has engineering program now, but in the end....half-baked, over abundant of graduates but hardly enough quality.
PPSMI program was amazing though. Teachers get to enjoy new laptops, projectors, science lab materials, teaching allowances, courses in hotels. Slowly, the program losing fizzle once the funds dries up. No maintenance means the laptops eventually die past its shelf date. The lab equipments are mostly still there, but a husk of what it once was. Now I see the equipment are just used as decorations and piled behind the stores. The then education minister has no interest in pursuing the previous minister's policy and fell to the pressure of the nationalist community.
PPSMI was just to give the cronies the supplier contracts. In those days got teachers receiving new laptops every year, teachers going on courses for years on end, and Lowyat was doing a bustling business in high-end computers - nothing but the best!
I can think of four sectors that the Govt pushed previously very successfully previously; accounting, law, medical, and supply chain. Numbers doubled and tripled and targets were hit and exceeded.
On a personal level of course an excess of skilled manpower in these areas is bad - jobless graduates. However on a national level it means industries are not short of these required skills. That's not the bottleneck holding back these industries. From that perspective, the Education Ministry's job is done
Yeah there are many potatoes with certificates. But the market will cut those out anyway.
What the Govt needs to do is rebalance away from these industries towards engineering, IT, electrical and electronic. AND fix the basic Govt school system of course.