Farid Jaafar, head of Youth Infinity at the Ang Mo Kio Family Service Centre believes that enforcement strategies is not enough to weed out smoking among teenagers in Singapore. It has been 6 years of battle for him to minimize the worsening cases of underage smoking in […]
Students are learning more about the country’s past more than before as the upgraded lower-secondary history syllabus introduced the new history textbook called “Singapore: The Making of a Nation-State”, which contents include events as old as 13th century happenings. The book which describes country’s interesting history dating […]
Another celebrity retires residency in Singapore due to fear of increasing rate of student suicide in the country. The famous host of Asia’s Next Top Model (ASNTM), Nadya Hutagalung recently revealed on Twitter that the rise of student suicidal rate every year pushed her to leave Singapore […]
SINGAPORE – Tiffany Yau, a student from Temasek Primary School celebrates her joyous victory as she claimed the first spot during the last National Primary Schools Track and Field Championship. Beating other contenders of the said sport, the young sprinter has truly brought pride not only to […]
You may feel that it is proper and just to help your students with their homework but studies showed that kids tend to perform less in school when helped by parents. Angel Harris, a scholar and a professor of sociology and African and African-American studies at Duke, […]
Increase need for Dyslexia Therapists SINGAPORE – Dyslexia Association of Singapore (DAS) is sending their therapists to educational trainings to undergo “dual specialization”. This is to meet the requirement of having enough instructors to teach multiple subjects at their centres as the association faces shortage of labour […]
SINGAPORE – The last 2012 PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) test showed an impressive result of 15-year old students as they top the global assessment of problem solving skills. The other country which grabbed the top spot includes Korea. Students of both countries revealed an outstanding […]
Quality education in Singapore continues to skyrocket as the Ministry of Education plans to open up more university places this year bringing the number of places at the 6 universities which includes SIM University (UniSIM) and Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) to 14,000. This amazing plan is […]
Singapore’s leading independent schools along with mission schools had just recently trimmed down funds for reasons still unknown. The 6 top independent schools were also advised to moderate fund-raising activities for campus improvements. Along with the amendments on funding is the policy to install fans to minimize […]
More and more 1st to 4th grade students at Southern Cross School in Santiago, Chile are becoming more interested in Mathematics after their school introduced Singapore Math. Students seemed to accept the new Math lessons with enthusiasm as they start to participate and ask more questions according […]