Tag Archives: HENG SWEE KEAT

Local students entering the polytechnics this year will pay $2,400 in tuition fees, up from the $2,300 their seniors paid. Permanent residents will pay $200 more, and foreign students $350 more, compared with last year. At ITE, the fee hike affects only the incoming Higher Nitec students, who will have to pay about 2 per cent to 2.5 per cent more, with local students paying $14 more. Course fees for Nitec programmes remain unchanged. Tuition fees for male students who applied for places before national service will be pegged to their date of application.

Citing his experience when he was a civil servant at the Trade and Industry Ministry, he noted that when he travelled in the region negotiating trade agreements, he met many people who had studied in Singapore institutions. “There is such a reservoir of goodwill and friendship and trust that allows us to do things together,” he said in his reply to Mr Png. Mr Heng also noted that Singapore was not the only country seeking to draw talented students from abroad. He said that China has given several Singaporeans scholarships to study in its universities.

Highlighting the importance of play in early childhood development, Education Minister Heng Swee Keat, who was Guest of Honour at the event, said: “Play time is not a waste of time - in fact, play brings very important values in developing the self-confidence and social skills of our children, in stimulating their curiosity to explore the world around them and in nurturing their creativity.

Miss Truss said: ‘Shanghai is the top-performing part of the world for maths – their children are streets ahead.‘Shanghai and Singapore have teaching practices and a positive philosophy that make the difference. They have a belief that diligence redeems lack of ability. ‘Our new curriculum has borrowed from theirs because we know it works – early learning of key arithmetic and a focus on times tables and long division, for example.

Patricia recently moved out of her parents' house to be with Sham. In Singapore, with its sky-high housing prices and conservative Asian values, most young people have no choice but to live with their parents until they get married. Singles cannot apply for public housing until they turn 35. Patricia works full time as a nurse in a government hospital. She is undereducated by Singapore's standards, with only n-levels (below high school) and an ITE (technical college) certificate in nursing, and earns S$1,400 (£670) per month.

At the end of the day, whichever school your child gets into, the best thing you can do for your child is to partner the school. I made this mistake with my older kids. The hubs and I decided to put our kids in the nearest school to our house, which happened to be a SAP school. However, over the years, there were so many problems with the school.

The photo has been shared on online platforms including Facebook and Twitter for about two weeks. Some netizens mistook the text as coming from a textbook used in schools and questioned how it had got past the MOE. A check on bookstore Kinokuniya's website showed it is out of stock in its stores here. The fifth edition, published in 2012, is available in two of its four stores but it is not clear if it contains the text.

My daughter is particularly envious about the facilities these independent school enjoy because she belonged to that handful of pupils who failed to get in when she ranked among the worst 12% for CL in her PSLE cohort. She still managed to get into a good school because she likely achieved near perfect scores for the other three subjects. Sometimes when we drive past one of these schools or if she sees pictures of them,

So the G has cut its funding for six independent schools. How much? Dunno. But it seems that this is the “integrated programme’’ portion of the grant it gives to these schools. Another portion is for the Gifted Education Programme. That stays. How much? Dunno. Now, it seems that operating cost to finance a secondary school kid is about $10,800 ...

To me, one of the primary purposes of education should be to enable students to become capable, global-minded citizens, who have some kind of mental/spiritual/emotional involvement with their chosen line of work because of the contributions they can make to society, big or small. An education system which suppresses independent thought, discourages the act of questioning, and dismisses this thing called ‘passion’, is not going to produce ideal human beings.