
Former DPM Tony Tan’s foreign-talent-first Singaporeans-second university admission policy
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...

Tony Tan and the university education review
This is part two of a previous post here. 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. It is only fair if they are addressed. Apart from that there are new points to be made here as well. A commenter...

Did PUB pull wool over the eyes of ST commentary writer about Cuscaden Rd?
In her commentary piece of 13 Jun 2011, headed, “ Plumb depths of floods for good solutions”, Tan Dawn Wei quoted the PUB as having told her that (quote) “ Cuscaden also sits on a higher plane, so water should be flowing down to Orchard Road instead, it added.” (end quote). That got me rather curious since I have been...
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