SINGAPORE - When he was in Fuhua Secondary School, Mr Teo Chuan Kai got a taste of polytechnic life after taking up a five-day advance elective module on cybersecurity.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - When he was in Fuhua Secondary School, Mr Teo Chuan Kai got a taste of polytechnic life after taking up a five-day advance elective module on cyber security.
Last year, and also in 2017 and 2015, just one scholarship was awarded to a polytechnic graduate; in 2016, there were three. "But we are never complacent, and this is why the PSC is constantly evolving and renewing the way we select the next generation of public service scholars who hopefully will, in time, take over the leadership responsibility of this country.
"This year, we looked harder into areas to seek potential talent. In addition to a wider range of schools, we worked with polytechnics to encourage interest in a public service career... Achieving diversity requires us to select more effectively from a larger number of candidates." However, while there has been a push for diversity in recent years, a large proportion of PSC scholarship recipients still hail from elite schools.
He said:"The way the polytechnics presented their curriculum was far more interesting than regular subjects - they have modules like cryptography, for instance."
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