The Kent Ridge Common, 6 Apr 2009, Kelvin Teo
SINGAPORE– One of the main grouses of National Service (NS) is that the latter takes up two years of our lives, which could be spent doing more productive things. Compared with our female peers from the same batch, we typically enter the work force two years later.
The reduction of NS term for full-time NS (NSF) men from two and a half years to two years was seen as a welcome change. However, more can be done to give NSFs the flexibility to disrupt their full-time NS in order to pursue their studies.
If the disruption policy was made more flexible, NS men can save up to one year, entering the workforce one year behind their female peers from the same batch.
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