Tag: education system
ST Poll: More than half of students who receive tuition begin at age 7...
Singapore—A new poll commissioned by The Straits Times (ST) has shown that more than half of the students who are enrolled in tuition lessons...
SDP: Singapore’s educational system ‘in dire need of reform’, smaller class size, scrapping PSLE...
Singapore—On July 13, Saturday, the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) launched its education policy Educating for Creativity and Equality: An Agenda For Transformation, with Paul...
Education: Teachers burdened with other duties besides teaching
By S. Bala
I was recently in the company of some teachers and the topic of interest among the teachers was the recent article on...
40 years later, I remember life lessons from my principal
By Richard Seah
The return food tray initiative, which the National Environment Agency launched last year, might not have been necessary if every Singaporean had...
PSLE: what are we doing to our children?
Education Minister Heng Swee Keat’s attempts to take some of the stress out of our education system have shied away from a sensitive question:...
What MOE has done to our kids
Education Minister Heng Swee Kiat has a tough job: correcting the government’s mistakes in education. Three generations of children have grown up looking at...
Boy who exposed- and fought- the education monster
He is Singapore’s role model. He is the boy who fought his way from Normal (Technical) Stream to a place at the National University...