Some articles here on meritocracy in the local context. Note some of the pros and cons, why Singapore needs meritocracy despite its drawbacks, and the solutions our govt adopt to mitigate the ill-effects of meritocracy in Article 3.
Note useful statistics in Article 2: 6 out of 10 students from top pri and sec schs live in private property, when only 2 out of 10 do so across Singapore. In short, a high concentration of our high-performing students are from rich families, and they are likely to go on to attain good jobs (given their academic performance) that will seal their position in the upper echelons of society. So what does that say about the effectiveness of education as a social leveller? What's going to happen to those students who are performing well academically (i.e. not in elite schools) and who are also in poorer families? Won't meritocracy continue to favour and reward the brighter students who are also the richer ones? Won't meritocracy continue to 'punish' those who are less bright, who are likely to be from the poorer families, and who will continue to be poor since their less-than stellar academic performance would not clinch them a high paying job in the future...........
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