Education

The Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) revealed that one in five childcare centres in Singapore will be increasing their fees for full-day programmes in 2020. It explained that 330 childcare centres will be raising their full-day fees for Singapore citizens from next year. The median hike is “within 5 per cent of fees” and “broadly comparable” to years before this, …

While Yale-NUS College remains keen on upholding academic freedom, the institution remains steadfast in doing so within legal boundaries, in light of the cancellation of a programme aimed at introducing its students to dissent and resistance in Singapore. College President Tan Tai Yong told TODAY yesterday (17 Sep) that while dissent and resistance are “legitimate objects of study and investigation …

The decision of Yale-NUS College to cancel an upcoming programme on dissent and resistance in Singapore is concerning, said Yale University President Peter Salovey. In a statement on Sat (14 Sep), Salovey said: “When I learned of this impending decision, I expressed my concern to the president of the National University of Singapore and the president of Yale-NUS.” “In founding …

The Yale-National University of Singapore College of Liberal Arts (Yale-NUS College) has reportedly cancelled an upcoming programme titled ‘Dissent and Resistance in Singapore’, set to be led by renowned local playwright Alfian Sa’at at the end of this month. The Straits Times today (14 Sep) noted that the cancellation of the programme already took place earlier this week. The programme, …

Based on a report on household expenditure survey for 2017 and 2018 by the Singapore Department of Statistics (DOS), it is revealed that a total of 1.35 million households in the country spent about S$1.4 billion on tuition last year. The survey is carried out every five years and provides information on household expenditure of the locals, and its distribution …

Second Minister for Education Indranee Rajah said on Monday (2 September) that students who are exempted from taking mother tongue languages (MTLs) in the new Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) scoring system will generate similar outcomes as the current T-score system when it comes to secondary school choices and admission. Mentioning this in Parliament, the Minister said that those who …

Earlier this week, Kaspersky signed a three-year agreement with Temasek Polytechnic (TP) to provide cybersecurity courses for corporate practitioners and members of the public in Singapore. The training collaboration agreement was signed on Monday (26 Aug) by Stephan Neumeier, Managing Director for Asia Pacific (APAC) at Kaspersky, and John Leong, Director of the Temasek SkillsFuture Academy. Under this partnership, Kaspersky …

Education Minister Ong Ye Kung said on Thursday (22 August) that close to 55, 000 undergraduate and diploma students will be given the opportunity to gain from the Government’s enhanced bursary scheme. This scheme will be rolled out to student from the next academic year onwards. The Minister noted that out of these 55, 000 students, nearly 30, 000 of …

by Ganesamoorthy Subramaniam Traditionally, the term used for teaching Summary Writing Skills in schools and junior colleges the world over has been the term ‘Preci’s‘ that literally means ‘Precision’, ie “to say in fewer than one-third of the words what’s intended by the author of the passage.” It’s ironical that in recent years, our schools and junior colleges have been …

A man named Joshua Loke posted on the Facebook page of United Singaporean alleging People’s Action Party (PAP) for favouring foreign students by giving them easier exam papers compared to the locals for the University Entrance Examinations (UEE). “So the PAPPIE Daniel Ng told me to look up the sample admission paper used to admit foreigners into our local universities. …