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Singapore Wins Angus Ross Prize for Literature

Since 1987, Cambridge International Examinations has been awarding the Angus Ross prize in honour of Dr Angus Ross, who was the chairman of the A Level English Literature examiners. Since then, Singapore students have a strong history of winning it. The Angus Ross prize is awarded to students who show outstanding ability in their examination scripts. According to Dr Newman ...

Mobile App Providing Free Solutions to Homework

As technology rapidly advances, it also gives rise to new education methods. The latest of all is this mobile app, which can help to explain tricky homework questions. This app, which can be downloaded, was specially developed to cater towards the more needy students who struggle to afford tuition. It is an extremely easy to use app, where ...

Active Parents in Schools

Both of Madam Christine Sim children are already in their secondary school, but the 50-year-old still continues to be a volunteer at Loyang Primary School. She organises reading programmes as well as helps chaperone pupils. According to her, she has grown familiar with the school and feel that it isn’t quite the right time to leave just yet. Aside ...

Goals Over Grades

When Sherry Oh was only 11 years old, she realised that she had a talent for cooking. This discovery took place after she started preparing lunch for herself as well as her two younger siblings on a daily basis. She had to take up the role as her parents needed to work. Now at the ...

Increase in Tertiary School Fees

From the next academic year, four Government-funded universities, five polytechnics as well as the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) will be raising their tuition fees. Just like increases from previous years, the hike this time around will be higher for both the permanent residents and foreigners as compared to that for citizens. For both polytechnics and the ITE, ...

1 in 3 Places for Kids From Lower-Income Families

As many of you would have known by now, the Ministry of Education (MOE) will be running their own kindergartens. In fact, so far they have stated five locations, four of which are sited in existing primary schools. These schools include Blangah Rise Primary, Dazhong Primary, Farrer Park Primary and Punggol View Primary. The other location is in the ...

NSAs and Sports School to Identify Talents

Although there are quite a number of programmes being used to boost athletes when they were near or at their prime, the Singapore Sports Institute’s (SSI) High Performance Sports (HPS) System still has intentions of casting its net wider. They will also be going a step further to bring promising young athletes under the system. Just last Wednesday, Fabian ...

Free Tuition at Jurong Point

Starting from May this year, Jurong Point Shopping Centre would be welcoming students to study on its premises. In fact, they will be encouraging it with free weekly tuition sessions. This is a combined project, known as “Ace Your Exams”, along with Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Welfare Services Club. This project is being targeted at the lower-income families. Both NTU and Jurong ...

Talent Development Programmes For Mendaki

According to Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs, the Malay-Muslim community’s next key phase of ethos to embrace must be nurturing talent. Last Friday in Parliament, he mentioned that although there are already existing talent development programmes available for the community to tap on, there is still more room to widen the offerings to a growing talent spectrum. As ...

MOE Setting Up 15 Kindergartens Over Next 3 Years

A few months back, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong stated that government will be starting to run their own kindergartens. This plan to set to be in motion after they announced their intentions of setting up approximately 15 pilot kindergartens over the next three years. Heng Swee Keat, the Education Minister, broke the news in Parliament on Wednesday during the ...