A couple of days ago, our Deputy Director of Education reaffirmed that if you want to teach say, mathematics, you will need to have a degree in the same discipline. By implications, if you want to teach rocket science, you must have a degree in rocket science(?). Oops, why would a rocket scientist go and sign up as a teacher anyway?
Viola, if you are asked to teach sex education, does that mean you must be 'qualified' in sex too - whatever than means!??
No, I am not pulling any body's legs here: I am dead serious about the archaic direction that our broad tertiary education is inadvertently made to be heading towards some 'avatarish' society!
First we have the rulings that barred first degree holders from teaching master-degrees' candidates and that non-Ph.D's lecturers ought not to teach doctoral students! I see these as retrogressive steps.
What ever happened to premiums that we always attach to one's industrial or working experiences, individual life's vagaries and non-pedagogical encounters, personal exposures, late-career interests shifts, and new-found inclinations? All these are invaluable 'knowledge' that you will never ever find in your professors' nor even your up-high Deans' rare classes.
All I can surmise is that most of our future graduates' employment chances will be (to borrow a Cantonese saying) "colder than water".
Aiyah...!
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