The Star
Saturday October 9, 2010
WE laud the call made by our Prime Minister to bring back talented professionals from overseas.
However, this is nothing new as several calls had been made before and as a result, a few of them did come back and after some years, quite a number of them had left to join the private sector or moved to neighbouring countries.
The problems should be studied by the Government whether is it the incentives or the facilities that do not match their talents. Or is it the bureaucracy.
I feel that one of the problems in retaining the best brains in the professional sector lies in the various professional bodies.
It is a pity that foreign graduates as well as those who graduated from the twinning or franchised local campuses are not recognised by these bodies although the courses are recognised by the government accreditation bodies.
The professional bodies like those in the legal, accountancy, engineering and medical professions block these graduates from joining them directly.
They need to sit for a local examination to satisfy local requirements whereas local graduates, even those from universities with lower MQA Rating than the local private universities, are exempted.
The irony is that although these professionals may have obtained membership from foreign professional bodies, they still need to clear the local hurdle to obtain membership from the local bodies.
Just bear in mind that a majority of our local professors are graduates from foreign universities and the syllabus are mostly from foreign universities.
Furthermore, those foreign universities are listed among the best universities in the world whereas our local universities are not even in the list and yet our professional bodies discriminate against our foreign professionals.
So one can see why quite a number of our talented professionals want to remain overseas or work in the private sector (as they are not qualified to join government services), or work in neighbouring countries.
CONCERNED CITIZEN,
Subang Jaya.
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