Changes to Secondary Education
A number of fundamental changes to the way our students are taught at secondary school has been the highlight for me in Parliament today. The changes are welcomed and as Minister Ong spoke, my memory took me back to Telok Blangah close to 30 years ago. Two issues in particular came back to me as if it were yesterday. When I...
Ong Ye Kung Adopts SDP’s Proposal to Abolish Streaming
In announcing that the Education Ministry will abandon streaming by 2024, Mr Ong Ye Kung has shown that the PAP is following the SDP's lead again. In our policy proposal Educating for Creativity and Equality: An Agenda for Transformation, the SDP wrote: “Therefore under the SDP’s education plan, the PSLE will be removed...
Follow-up to ‘Why does the Singapore Government retain an army of Gurkha soldiers?’
I refer to my recent post on LHL saying that we cannot outsource national security. LHL's statement triggered some questions in my mind. The thoughts behind my post was whether the presence of the Gurkha Contingent (GC) detracted from LHL's statement, why the Government has retained the GC and whether we still need the GC in...
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