Tag Archives: Standards

15 buildings have been found to be using external cladding that does not meet fire safety standards. The Singapore Civil Defence Force announced a list of affected buildings with non-Class 0 cladding, including Singapore Polytechnic and Clementi Fire Station. Fire station also got combustible cladding? How come never ownself check ownself?

On Thursday (15 Jan 2015) the Land Transport Authority announced that train operators have to meet much higher service standards next year. After the completion of signalling upgrades on the North-South line, trains are expected to arrive every 100 seconds, down from the previous 120 seconds. Concurrently, LTA will track and measure rail disruptions on an end-to-end journey basis rather than the existing per-station basis so as to give an accurate representation of what commuters experience daily.

Minister for Education Mr Heng Swee Keat said on Saturday (Aug 16) recent changes made by two universities to their honours programme and grading system will not dilute the importance of a degree. Instead, it is the "right thing" to do to reflect more accurately students' abilities as their educational achievements have been going up.