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This is a follow up to the previous post on DPM Tony Tan’s role in university education reform. There are a number of objections and replies to what was posted here and elsewhere. I think it’s fair only if I addressed some of these. Apart from that there are new points to be made here as well. A commenter said that local... 

Let me share my thoughts on the election of the President, whom the PAP wants us to think is a person who “unifies Singapore”. There is a sublimal message carried in the mass propaganda exercise, but the message is as wrong as wrong can be. Because, NO one can unify Singapore. Political views are already very diverse in... 

For over two decades, Dr Tony Tan oversaw university education as its Minister-in-charge. In the late 1990s, the Singapore government convened a panel, under the direction of DPM Dr Tony Tan to re-examine university admission criteria. One of the pressing problems seen by the government at the time was that Singapore’s low...