Varsity entrance exams not up to the mark
straits times/17 July 2006

China's university chiefs have called for changes to admission procedures and teaching methods to attract more creative students. They believed that the current system of university admission tests rewarded rote learning but ignored qualities such as creativity. All of this is done in the hope of producing more innovative talents.

Today, majority of the developed countries overcame these problems by letting students take a combination of mandatory and elective courses. In Singapore, the government had also taken up this measure to boost creativity and an open mind among the young Singaporeans. An example is the introduction of project work in tertiary schools and the H1H2 and H3 system offered in junior colleges which prevents students from narrowing their tracks of study only into the Arts or Science streams. Creativity and innovation would soon become a deciding factor for an efficient and productive workforce and hence a striving economy in the future.