Committee of Supply 2025 debate, Day 5: Jamus Lim on minimum-entry criteria universities
Local schools still seem unable to fill the nation's tech worker shortfall despite possessing secondary school students that are sufficiently talented and willing to pursue technically oriented tertiary education, said MP Jamus Lim. Speaking in parliament on Thursday (May 6), he proposed a strategy to alter the criteria for entry into certain autonomous universities such as the Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore Institute of Technology and Singapore University of Technical and Design, such that they can take in students as long as they meet an absolute entry criteria, rather than relative to all applicants for a particular programme. In his speech, Associate Professor Lim also highlighted similar approaches to tertiary education in other countries.
Local schools still seem unable to fill the nation's tech worker shortfall despite possessing secondary school students that are sufficiently talented and willing to pursue technically oriented tertiary education, said MP Jamus Lim. Speaking in parliament on Thursday (May 6), he proposed a strategy to alter the criteria for entry into certain autonomous universities such as the Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore Institute of Technology and Singapore University of Technical and Design, such that they can take in students as long as they meet an absolute entry criteria, rather than relative to all applicants for a particular programme. In his speech, Associate Professor Lim also highlighted similar approaches to tertiary education in other countries.
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