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10Students Impress InInaugural Land Transport DebateTo get students and teachers thinking about land transport, an inter-schooldebate for junior colleges and Integrated Programme schools was organised,to great success.Two teams of six young debaters, whittled down from32 teams of over 150 students, stood on stage as theyfuriously argued in front of the Transport Minister: Shouldpublic transport be operated by the state?There was never a dull moment during the grand finalsof the inaugural Land Transport Debate Championshipson 5 August as Minister Lui Tuck Yew and LTA’s headhonchos laughed, nodded and sometimes shook theirheads at the teenagers’ arguments.But one thing was clear: The junior college students,aged between 17 and 18, showed an admirable grasp ofeconomics and how it is applied in land transport.Both the final teams from Victoria Junior College andTemasek Junior College liberally tossed out terms likescarcity, natural monopoly and public good to fight theirrespective cases.As Minister Lui said himself later: “I don’t think I was ableto do that at your age!”The winner: Victoria Junior College.The debate was organised by the LTA Academy,with support from the Society for Associated Inter-tertiaryDebaters and the Ministry of Education’s Economics Unit.It is part of an initiative which started in 2009 to getstudents and teachers thinking about land transport, whenfour land transport economics videos were launched.Following the debate, Minister Lui took to the rostrumwhere the student audience asked him questions aboutissues like central bus-planning.
11“Through this debate, I haveseen that land transport ismuch more multi-faceted thanI thought, and that it affectsdifferent people on differentlevels.”Fu Liren (left)17, Victoria Junior College,Best Speaker of the Grand Finals“The Land Transport Debate 2011 has indeedachieved its high aim of engaging our youthson the difficult economic and social trade-offswhich have to be made in implementing a publictransport system for the overall betterment forall Singaporeans. The event has made a clearimpact on all the participating students.”Mr Loke Wing Fatt (left)President of Society for Associated Inter-Tertiary Debators (SAID)and Chief Adjudicator for the Land Transport Debate Championship
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