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The Education Minister Heng Swee Keat this Tuesday, the 10th of September, cleared all misperceptions and weighed in on the parliamentary debate on whether to endorse the Applied Study in Polytechnics and ITE Review (ASPIRE) report. “As several MPs have noted, some members of the public are asking: Is the government now saying that qualifications don’t matter? Then why are we urging people to learn and upgrade? Let me be clear – ASPIRE is not about dissuading Singaporeans from upgrading ourselves or pursuing degrees or any form of qualifications,” said Mr Heng.
Instead, he said, ASPIRE is all about creating opportunities and keeping pathways open for all. “It is about breakthroughs, not limits; widening opportunities, not narrowing them; addition, not subtraction; more, not less.” It is not about one kind of qualification versus another, he stressed according to Channel News Asia.
Mr Heng further raised the point that thinking qualifications are all that matter or qualifications do not matter at all would both limit the Singaporeans potential. “Qualifications matter, but they must be the right qualifications and of the right standard for what we want to do,” he said, citing doctors, nurses, pharmacists and physiotherapists as examples of occupations that require professional qualifications. “But not all qualifications matter — not if they do not help us build the right skills for what we want to do,” he added.
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