Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Planning a talk on funding a child's education.

I'm currently working with WDA to give a talk at the Lifelong Education centre on 14th July 12.30pm.

 Right now the details are still quite sketchy, but I thought that blog readers should be able to pitch in and suggest what they want to hear.

 The working title is "Finding your child's university education".
Here's what I have so far.

  • Paying for Education is about increasing a child's human capital as opposed to financial capital. It should be treated like an investment.
  • Why is it naive to see a university experience purely from the viewpoint of a love for learning. 
  • University qualifications have two effects of signalling and skilling. Signalling remains the more important concern in a highly competitive meritocratic society.
  • The result of investment in human capital should result in employment and higher wages.
  • Comparisons will be made between local and private universities.
  • A very brutal assessment of private universities will take place using the theories explained to the audience.
  • Details on CPF loans.
  • Details on Education loans.
  • Details on private loans
  • Where to get information on scholarships.
  • Investing to fund the education.
I also expect very lively debate in this talk because I don't intend to pull any punches about how gritty our education system is. 

Do share with me what you would like to hear in such a talk. 







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4 comments:

  1. dsea10:38 PM

    Hi.....

    How do we allocate resources (esp for those with larger families, ie >3 kids).

    Do we channel more resources to ensure those that are behind can catch up?
    Or do we channel more to those who are talented to ensure their talents are multiplied many folds?

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  2. Christopher Ng Wai Chung5:55 PM

    Thanks !

    These are really good questions !

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  3. Lord10:13 AM

    The key question is whether university education is still a necessity 10-20 years down the road with the proliferation of open courseware.Btw, what has lifelong education has to do with funding kids university ?

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  4. Christopher Ng Wai Chung12:53 PM

    Open Courseware is limited to knowledge and skills transfer.

    Having the right skills is not enough to get a high paying job. You need to signal to the employer that you are worth hiring compared to the other person seeking that same job.

    Our education system is also a signalling mechanism which sorts students based on potential and intelligence.

    Being good is not good enough. You need to be better than someone else.

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