Science Education Portraits V The Scientific Tertiary Education that I had Envisioned.

Citation: Ling, MHT. 2019. Science/Education Portraits V: The Scientific Tertiary Education that I had Envisioned. Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 2(8): 75-79.

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Current tertiary education system has been criticized as being outmoded and inadequate to address modern day needs. Incorporating the concept of stackable credentials, I propose a framework of seminar series and apprenticeship within the 4-year tertiary education system for science. Seminar series can replace teaching while apprenticeship can address the needs of education. Given that a typical undergraduate degree amounts to 2,000 hours, I demonstrate that a combination of seminar and apprenticeship can amount to 1,860 seminar hours and 1,000 apprenticeship hours, which is equivalent to 6 months of full-time employment. This can allow the student room to develop a competency-based portfolio.