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Since the 1990s the government has worked hard to change ITE’s image. It has not only spent a lot of money on new facilities and better teachers but also put a great deal of thought into it, scouring the West for best practice in vocational training. And it has encouraged students who are used to failure to take pride in their work. That has involved discipline (a list displays the names of class-shirkers) but also fun outside the classroom: ITE has sports teams and concerts just like any university.
This attention to detail has paid off. Many of the graduates have to compete with cheap migrant workers, especially in service jobs, but most of them are snapped up quickly. The hairdressers and beauty therapists are off to the new casinos, or “integrated resorts”, as they are prudishly known. Singapore, already near the top of most educational league tables, has created yet another centre of excellence that is beginning to attract foreign visitors.
Singapore is important to any study of government just now, both in the West and in Asia. That is partly because it does some things very well, in much the same way that some Scandinavian countries excel in certain fields. But it is also because there is an emerging theory about a superior Asian model of government, put forward by both despairing Western businesspeople and hubristic Asian chroniclers. Simplified somewhat, it comes in four parts.

A. 어휘
facilities 시설. scour 급히 찾아다니다, 문질러 닦다.
practice 방법, 관례, 영업. vocational training 직업훈련.
discipline 訓育(훈육). shirkers 기피자, 게으름뱅이. class-shirkers 수업을 빼먹은 놈.
pay off 소기의 성과를 거두다. therapists 치료사, 임상의사.
migrant workers 이주 노동자. snapped up 앞 다투어 가져가다.
integrated resorts 통합 리조트. prudishly 고상한체하는, 숙녀인 체하는.
league tables 비교대조표. excel 卓越(탁월)하다, 뛰어나다.
hubristic 오만한. chroniclers 年代記(연대기) 작자, 기록자.