Mediocre LHL-era with PAP’s 4th generation ‘leaders: a third-class government in the making?
Some 15 years ago, on the 12th August 2004, Lee Hsien Loong took over from Goh Chok Tong as Prime Minister. One thing I have noticed is that the LHL increasingly likes to use his father’s name and past glory in speeches – from the GE2015 rallies to even as recently as 2018 at the appreciation dinner for the 3 ministers who...
Catering to students who have slower rate of learning
The streaming of students was under the Dr Goh Keng Swee’s report published in 1979. It detailed the problems of Singapore’s education system at that time and aimed to reduce the drop-out rate. Primary students would be streamed at the end of Primary 3 into either the normal bilingual, extended bilingual or monolingual course....
When MoE makes a gal’s dream come true
PM’s talk of spending more on education reminded me that a govt scholarship can help a kid’s dream come true if there’s no Bank of Mum and Dad for the kids to draw on. —————————- “The rich are different from you and me,” Scott Fitzgerald is supposed to have said; and Hemingway is supposed to have...
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