Originally posted by oxford mushroom:
The rapid rise in biomedical exports in the recent years has been
well publicised. Surely you are aware that exports in the
biomedical industry has grown by a startling 30%, contributing much
revenue to the economy. There are new jobs being created in the
biomedical industry, but there is a mismatch between the jobs
created the skillset of our workers. Many local workers either do
not have the required skills in the R&D labs or refuse to work
in clean rooms that are necesary in the manufacturing plants. That
is why we need to change the attitude of our workers and re-train
them for the new jobs that are available.
For one who demand evidence from
others before making sweeping statements, what evidence have you to
offer to substantiate your sweeping statements that "many workers ... refuse to work in clean
rooms that are necessary in the manufacturing plants"
?
How many workers are needed in the clean room of a Bio-Medical
manufacturing facility, when it is obviously to be highly automated
?
Are you assuming that in this 21st Century, such Bio-Medical
Facility are labor intensive and require thousands of Singaporeans
standing in assembly lines to weigh the chemicals according to
predetermined formula, mix it in equal proportions, boil the
chemical mix, adding the necessary color, manually pouring into
tiny moulds to make the pills, stamp the logo on tiny tablets, hand
wrapped each tablet, manually packing them into boxes, then into
cartons ?
How many unemployed Singaporeans can the Bio-Medical Industry
absorb ?
You are talking about recesions since 1993, way before our
biomedical indiustry has been conceived. It requires lead time to
grow this industry, given how few of our students study biology in
secondary schools and universities. The past recessions illustrate
the dangers of relying on just our IT industry to bring in the
manufacturing revenue. That is exactly why this life sciences
initiative is necessary to broaden our economic base. Singapore has
recovered from these recessions and emerged stronger than ever,
which is a testament to the leadership of the government. What has
the Opposition parties done for Singaporeans during all these
recessions?
Was it not the blind blundering
support of this Singapore Government to support the IT industry
that got the entire education system geared towards producing the
necessary labor for the different levels of engineers, supervisors,
technicians, and assembly line workers ?
Or are you blaming Singaporeans for blindly moving into the IT
industry in a herd instinct while responding to the call from this
Singapore Government ?
Singapore's response to the Life Sciences is not an initiative but
a late reaction that came more then ten years late, and is nothing
more then a catch-up game being played.
With Singapore's existing pool of skilled workers in the IT
industry, surely someone at A-Star would have been brilliant enough
to capitalise on our existing strength, and identify a path to link
ourselves into a future Bio-IT world - a path that even CRAY
Supercomputers have identified for themselves.
Because too many Singaporeans are just sitting on their backsides
and ranting like you instead of acquiring the skillsets that are
needed for new growth industries. When students from China are
working hard and sweeping all our top prizes, our students are
learning from the adults and complain all day. Burying your sand in
the sand will not make you fit to work in the biomed
industry.
Where is your evidence to support
your derogatory statement ?
Are you not contradicting yourself with your arrogant intelligence
- which has been proven more often then once to be hollow ?
Did you not mention that " It
requires lead time to grow this industry, given how few of our
students study biology in secondary schools and
universities. " ?
With four years in secondary schools, two years in college, and at
least four years in the universities - that will be a total of TEN
YEARS before anyone is properly trained in the Bio-Science to be
able to contribute in the Bio-Medical industry.
With the length of time taken to educate someone in Bio-Science,
how long will it take to train an unemployed adult to fit into this
industry ?
Do Singaporeans have any influence over the education system
?
Has it not been the Government attempt to herd Singaporean students
into certain directions by means of available entry quota into
various streams to meet the needs of skilled manpower to enter
specific pet industries of the time ?
You must have got sand in your pants that work its way up your
brain as you slinked around like a snake with your way of thinking
- how else would you be so fixxated with sand in all your recent
postings ?
The only way to help these workers is to re-train them for new jobs
that are available. There are plenty of jobs in wafer fabs but half
the workers are foreigners because our locals refuse to take them.
If our unemployed workers are so desperate, why won't they take the
jobs? Oh no! They would have to work shifts and be suited up in the
clean room...it's uncomfortable...excuses, excuses. Fact is: they
are not hungry enough for the jobs, which go to the Malaysians and
the Chinese.
Have you any evidence that the
unemployed workers are desperate but will refuse to work in the
wafer fabs due to the ridiculous reasons given ?
For one with a boasted claim to PhD in medicine, somehow you seem
to show your hollowness in simple common sense.
Have you researched into the future prospects of the
wafer fab industry ?
Is it not a fact that the wafer fab industry has seen such
intense competition and prospects expected to be lacklustre
that cost cutting exercises have involved retrenchments ?
Those Malaysians that have been employed by the wafer fab industry
are the low wage assembly line workers, which the industry have
found to be more economical to employ than to re-train
over-educated and over-qualified Singaporeans.
In the not too distant future, perhaps we will see a PhD qualified
'mushroom' working as a
janitor in our Singapore hospitals.
Talk is cheap. Make the vaccone and then
talk.
Yes - 'talk is cheap' and
you have made it cheaper with your
arrogant hollow talk - confirming that empty vessel makes the most
noise.
Considering your arrogant display in deriding unfortunate
Singaporeans, it certainly reflect some instability of character on
your part - I will not be surprised if you are a
shorty in height - as well as in length.
