Form special unit to monitor Science graduates

IREFER to your editorial yesterday, “Losing the magic” (NST, Sept 1). Science is losing to Arts simply because “there are not enough jobs for Science graduates”, as mentioned by the deputy director of the Education Ministry’s curriculum development division.

It is a bread and butter issue, and being a developing country, we don’t have the luxury of indulging in romance and being sentimental in “Science for Science’s sake”.

Take the Administrative and Diplomatic Service (PTD), for example. It used to be meant for Arts students who excelled as administrators in various government departments. Now, there are many Science students taken in as PTD officers.

When I was in the Foreign Affairs Ministry, there was one young diplomat with a degree in Zoology from Universiti Malaya.

She should have been somewhere else, studying the habits of monkeys and baboons.

Instead, she was taken in to be a diplomat. Her background could probably be used help the ministry deal with diplomats with strong animal instincts.

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