Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 6:56PM Workers' Party chief Low Thia Kiang has responded to Steve Tan's letter accusing him of politicising the Mother Tongue weighting issue. I had previously called Tan naive about the politics, and I'm glad Low's response is also a small lesson in politics for those who think the opposition shouldn't criticise the PAP government when the need arises.
Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 11:19AM Mr Steve Tan misses the point entirely with his criticism of Workers' Party MP Low Thia Kiang in his letter.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 6:12PM The announcement is just in: weighting of mother tongue (MT) languages in PSLE will not be reduced. It's good news, but the government is still not tackling fundamental issues plaguing our education system.
Ministry of Education, mother tongue in Education, Policy, Singapore Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 2:07PM There has been a flurry of debate around the speculation that MOE will reduce the weightage of Mother Tongue (MT) subjects at the Primary School Leaving Examinations (PSLE) level. I use the word "speculation" in a very broad way, because every time a policy is being "reconsidered" it almost always happens regardless of feedback.
Ministry of Education, mother tongue in Education, Fail, Personal, Policy, Singapore Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 11:26PM Akikonomu is "scandalised" by MOE's decision to allow four vendors out of six chosen to provide sexuality education to all schools in Singapore.
As demand and supply for this form of sex education is mostly from this small but vocal minority, I am scandalised that MOE has decided to allow these vendors to offer sex education to ALL schools in Singapore, a free platform to push their narrow philosophies on sexuality, which go further right than most conservatives in Singapore.
Ministry of Education, sex education in AWARE, Education, Fail, LGBT, Singapore Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 4:44PM The Ministry of Education (MOE) has finally reinstated sexuality education programmes offered to schools by external vendors, but limited the schools to only six vendors.
SEXUALITY education programmes run by external organisations are returning to schools, close to a year after they were suspended.
The Education Ministry (MOE) has approved the programmes by six groups after a tender exercise that drew applications from 17.
Ministry of Education, Terence Lee, secularism, sex education in AWARE, Education, LGBT, Policy, Religion, Singapore, atheism Monday, April 26, 2010 at 12:07PM I received some wonderful news on Saturday about Susan Elliot, the outstanding teacher from the US who had her invitation to Singapore's Teachers' Conference 2010 retracted because of her hearing disability, despite her record: she has been re-invited. TOC has managed to get an answer from MOE, and they are sticking to the "misunderstanding" angle.
Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 10:25PM The much-praised Singapore education system may have produced some of the best scores the world has seen, but this academic achievement comes at a cost that sacrifices more of our soul than any metric can measure, as this story clearly shows.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 11:35PM Apparently a cocktail of flu meds can really kill my writing ability.
Ezra Klein, Finland, Hazel Poa, Ministry of Education, inequality in EOD Links, Education, Personal, Politics, Singapore Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 10:52AM In one sure stroke, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean deflected a question, equated the country with his party, and patted himself on the back for formulated a policy that doesn't address the issue and is rife with conflicts of interest.
Responding to a student who asked if Singapore would adopt a new political attitude or stick to its Asian values stance, he said: 'We need to be more self-confident.'
