Comments on: Singaporean students to be re-valued monthly

By: Perry Tong

Perry Tong — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:23:19 +0000

Ministry of Emasculation you mean? ;)

By: Eugene

Eugene — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:37:23 +0000

But this would be unfair to the students from poor families. How?

By: Paddy Tan

Paddy Tan — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:16:44 +0000

For those with rich parents can sign up Visa/Ezlink top up, automatically maintain an elite value.

By: Harro!

Harro! — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:43:52 +0000

Dont worry guys. There will be TOP-UP system. If a student is under-performing and his value drops below a viable level for education, the parents can TOP UP!

By: Paddy Tan

Paddy Tan — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:24:34 +0000

Good thing that this article is for lighthearted reading. Else everything will be about money and money and not about learning skills and knowledge. :)

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:06:18 +0000

So, what was the monetary value of a guy who gone to Poly after ‘O’ level and became a teacher upon graduation? Not very high right?

But, the same guy is not drawing over a million a year as the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore. Never a scholar, some even said he dropped out from NUS.

So what model do you guys propose?

The value of a person can shot up simply by marriage.

By: Elia Diodati

Elia Diodati — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:04:12 +0000

Of course, you have to use the right discount rate, otherwise all the numbers will be meaningless by the time they graduate. ;-)

By: quitacet

quitacet — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:44:34 +0000

Actually I think this is an appropriate policy reform if we can accurately project lifetime earnings potential discounted to present value. We should be looking into developing a model for this – such a model might take into account quarterly performance (ie the 10-Q) which means indeed, monthly revaluation. Good job!