Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim (Sengkang): Mr Chairman, the design of modern towns, such as Sengkang, the constituency I represent, tends to be denser, with commercial spaces and similar amenities located in specific clusters, often close to a transportation hub. Such design, undeniably makes sense from an urban planning perspective and can help minimise residentialContinue reading “COS 2021: Commercial Spaces in HDB Multi-storey Carparks”
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COS 2021: Smaller Class Sizes
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim (Sengkang): Mr Chairman, Singapore currently has one of the highest average class sizes among advanced countries in Primary and Secondary schools. In 2019, it amounted to 33 students per class. In contrast, the average among industrialised economies is a little more than 20. Even in East Asian economies such asContinue reading “COS 2021: Smaller Class Sizes”
COS 2021: Re-skilling and the Promise of Re-employment
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim (Sengkang): Chairman, currently, WSG offers a Professional Conversion Programme, or PCP, that seeks to enable mid-career PMETs to undergo skills conversion into new occupations or sectors; as well as SkillsFuture credits for all Singaporeans to prepare themselves for potential career transitions. SkillsFuture and the PCP received a further boost under theContinue reading “COS 2021: Re-skilling and the Promise of Re-employment”
COS 2021: Spending Wisely on National R&D
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim (Sengkang): Chairman, I wish to declare that I work at a research-oriented Institution of Higher Learning. In 2017, our national expenditure on research and expenditure, as a share of national output, amounted to a low shy of 2%. This amount is actually below the global average of 2.3% and, perhaps, moreContinue reading “COS 2021: Spending Wisely on National R&D”
COS 2021: Case for an Independent Fiscal Council
Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim (Sengkang): Chairman, fiscal councils are agencies staffed by professional civil servants which evaluate policy proposals to provide budgetary implications. To-date, there almost 40 fiscal councils worldwide concentrated among advanced economies. Some are comparatively older. The Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis dates back to just after the end of theContinue reading “COS 2021: Case for an Independent Fiscal Council”
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