All kinds of schools are starting to pop up in the sunny island of Singapore.

*Very sunny in fact. Everyday when I go for lunch, I step out from the shade provided by my office building and into the sun and I swear, I swear, I hear a sizzling sound. When I was little, I used to take a magnifying glass and burn ants and other insects with the focused beam. The hunter has become the hunted.*

Design schools especially have suddenly begun to spring up like Polly on a sugar diet and a pogo stick. Call me old school but I am of the opinion that 90 percent of the 13 year old students who enter these alternative study schools would end up future-less alumni.

How many really successful fashion designers can you name from here? Ashley Isham? That’s one. The tailor at Bukit Timah Plaza? Not counted. Continue Reading…