Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song (Aljunied): Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I have two supplementary questions for the Minister. Is the SOL proactively shared with schools and tertiary institutions so that they can provide career guidance to their students and encourage them to consider these jobs so that they can fill the shortage when they eventually graduate? Or would the Minister say that the SOL should not be used as a basis for career guidance for younger students, including those in secondary school?
Dr Tan See Leng: I thank Mr Giam for his supplementary questions. As I have shared earlier on, we live in a world where change is accelerating and the pace of disruption is also accelerating. So, on a broad directional guidance to schools, for instance, about our aspirational move into the greening of our economy, into sustainability, into the pivots and the transition into carbon credits, carbon trading and so on, the broad guidance we can continue to share with the schools. As I have said earlier on, we work with the sector agencies to continue to provide insights and inputs to our IHLs so that they can prepare our pipeline of graduates.
I think to the extent of getting to the granularity, our continued encouragement, our continued exhortation to all of our students, regardless of whether they graduate from the ITEs, the polytechnics or the IHLs, would be that they must continue to embrace this constant learning, constant upgrading and constant upskilling because the world we live in today has and will continue to be in this state of constant change. I hope that addresses the Member’s question.
Ministry of Manpower
8 May 2023
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