We laud the call made by our PM to bring back the talented professionals. However this is nothing new as several calls had been made before . As a result a few did come back and after some years quite a number had left to join private sectors or moved out to neighbouring countries. The above problems should be studied by the government whether is it the incentives and/or the facilities do not match their talents or the bureaucracies..
I feel that one of the problems in retaining the best brains in the professional sectors lies in our Professional Bodies . It is a pity that the foreign graduates, the twinning or franchise local graduates are not recognized by these bodies although the courses are recognized by the government accreditation bodies. The professional bodies like legal, accountancy, engineering and medical block these graduates from joining these professional bodies directly. These graduates need to sit for local examination to satisfy local requirements whereas local graduates even from universities with lower MQA Rating than the local private universities are exempted.The irony is that although the foreign professional obtained membership from the foreign bodies they still need to clear the hurdle here, that is to obtain membership from local Professional Bodies.
Just bear in mind a majority of our local professors are graduates from foreign universities and the syllabus are mostly based from foreign universities. Further, those foreign universities are listed in the top best universities in the world whereas our local universities are not even in the list and yet our Professional Bodies descriminate the foreign professionals. So one will see quite a number of our talented professionals remain overseas or working in the private sectors (as they are not qualified to join government services)or working in the neighbouring countries.
Concerned Citizen
Subang Jaya
(Posted in the Opinion 'The Star'on 9th Oct 2010)
