Future Probem Solving

Muhd Alfian (24)

Samuel Koh (19)

B.Giresh Ram (12)

Phua Wan Cheng (6)

Delia Chew (2)

Problems and Challenges No. 1

• Literacy rate for English, common language is only 30% of population

• Citizens cannot communicate and cannot work together

• Result in lower production rate

Problems and Challenges No. 2

• The government has only set aside 7% of its annual budget for education

• Not enough to support education

• Result in less educated workforce

Problems and Challenges No. 3

• Teachers are underpaid

• No bonuses or incentives for the teachers to teach

• No motivation to teach

• Students may not be able to learn much

Problems and Challenges No. 4

• Government does not have enough money set aside for them to provide proper education facilities

• Result in education being jeopardized

Problems and Challenges No. 5

• Further fours of secondary schooling is not compulsory

• Many students end their schooling at primary school

Problems and Challenges No. 6

• Government is catching and punishing students performing acts of violence

• Increase in crime rate

Underlying Problem

• Vandaquim’s government has only set aside 7% of annual budget for education

• Increase annual budget to support students’ education even further by 2015

Solutions

• Finance Minister should hold campaigns and talks– Raise funds from public and private– Increase money used for education– End of 2009 at public and private places

Solutions

• Prime Minister should hold a talk– Persuade educated Vandaquimians to stay

and set up businesses– Economy of Vandaquim will get better

because more money is made– End of 2009 in private sectors

Solutions

• Ministry should hold a convention to invite other countries for trading– Boost the economy– Increase the education budget– Held annually starting next year– Held in an official trading centre

Solutions

• Ministry should provide incentives for investors– They must not pull of their business ventures

in Vandaquim for the next 5 years– Attract investors– Industrial sector will improve– June 2010

Solutions

• Ministry should set up a Tourism Board to create more tourist attractions– Attract investors to invest as tourists will come

and business will improve– Increase money used for education– End of 2011

1: Cheapest

• In terms of cost needed to carry out the solution

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2: Fastest

• Solution that takes the least time to take effect (Does not need long before it can be carried out)

3: Least amount of Resources required

• A solution that makes full use of the resources and that needs the least resources

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4: Lasting Effect

• A plan that has a permanent or long-lasting effect to solve the problem

5. Increases annual budget the most

• Greatest effect on the underlying problem by profiting the greatest amount of money

Applying criteria to solutions

Fund-raising• The finance ministry to hold campaigns

and talks to raise funds from public and private which can be added to the annual budget and increase the amount of money used for education.

• Criteria Total: 17

Business by the Educated• The Prime Minister should hold a talk to

persuade educated Vandaquimians to stay in Vandaquim to set up business.

• Criteria: 16

Foreign investors• The ministry should provide attractive

incentives for foreign investors who do not pull out of their business ventures in Vandaquim for the next 5 years.

• Criteria: 20

The tourist attractions• The ministry should set up a Tourism

Board which should create more tourist attractions.

• Criteria: 12

Higher tax• The ministry should have a higher tax for

the private.

Trading• The ministry should hold a convention to

invite other countries for trading.

• Criteria: 22

Action Plan