Companies can help improve English of local graduates?

So now the buck is being passed to the corporations? So what are the teachers for? Why are we parents paying taxes for? What are the schools, colleges and universities for?

All those billions of our money spent by the education ministry has had what purpose? And on top of that, we parents have to spend more money to send the kids for extra tuition too?

The teaching of Maths and Science in English has backfired so now corporations have to play a role in helping students improve their English? Who has failed here? Teachers are not merely teachers. They are educators and if the students have failed, then the teachers have failed as educators.

Here is my take on this as I am involved with many corporations who are my clients.

1. It is ridiculous to think that all the years a learning institution has had to empower our children in the English language can be done by corporations.

2. Corporations do not have the manpower nor the time because they have more pressing issues like how to cut costs, how to improve productivity and how to improve the technical skills of workers.

Yes, some do have language training but it is highly-tailored for the industry and only handpicked employees with years of experience go through that.

The whole education system is out of whack. Giving teachers who are weak in English laptops and instruction booklets to teach Maths and Science in English. Who is the genius that came up with this idea? I mean, is it that easy and straightforward?

If only the government looks at our education system, I mean, for once, pull your heads out of the sand and listen. This is not the way to go. It has been failing for years. Same rubbish being used and introduced in different ways year in, year out.

Academic institutions are supposed to be the avenue where education experts impart knowledge to students. They go to school for years to be experts but when you produce teachers who, to begin with, do not even have the calibre and the academic edge to be teachers, those teachers produce incompetent students as well.

Same story with the declining quality of doctors in Malaysia. Medical seats are given to low-qualifying students and then they become ‘Panadol doctors' with clinics mushrooming everywhere like ‘nasi kandar' shops.

The leaders who make so much of noise themselves have no faith in the local doctors. They seek medical treatment in countries like the US which makes me sick. They condemn US to hell and then have the thick skin to use their technology, their medical capability, their weaponry.

Why should the corporations play teacher? They reserve the right to hire the best candidates. At least for now, that is probably one of the few remaining places where merit is the benchmark because the strength of a company is defined by the quality of its employees.

The academic institutions should feel ashamed of themselves. How can they release or produce graduates who can barely even write a resume and then have the cheek to turn around and say corporations are complaining of graduates with poor English?

The day that our government realises that they must hire the top guns regardless of race and religion is the day the quality of anything we try to produce will shine