SG Talk

By now you should have read news that China govt came down hard on tuition centers. The reason is these tuition centers gave an unfair advantage to rich parents who can afford it and this helps their kids do well in national exams and later get into university.

Because the fees are high it causes hardship among poorer families who are also trying to give their mot children a headstart.

The difference between the China govt and S'pore govt is one recognised the problem of unlevel playing field while the other pretends the problem does not exists.

If your child is highly intelligent say among the to docile except for language he should be able to do well without tuition.

But for a large number of students in the middle,   tuition makes a difference and that is why so many expensive tuition centers like Learning Lab exists.



Many poor families don't even send their children tonpre school aka kindergarten because until now the official stance from MOE is that it is not compulsory.

So the poor child step into primary one other kids can already read and he is just starting to learn ABC.

Access to university education in Singapore is lowest among developed Asian countries.

The playing field is very unlevel.

They tot they can be the next Jack Ma. But only 1 in a billion chance. Majority need tuition.

Get real. The world is not make equal.
All men may be created equal, but some are more equal than others

Fair to say, nowadays tuition are purely profit based, and more like the cancer for the society.

A Govt that puts the Weak, Handicap, Jobless, Old, Poor after the rich indicates a Major overhaul is necessary.

The tuition scene in Singapore is not as "industrialised" in China. Here, mostly uni students part timing as private tutors.

The fees the people paid here, the amounts can be used to send their children to international schools that provide automatic progressions in the future. However, the lock-in lies in the primary schools here.

they bark up the wrong tree.
if something training activities works in preparing a competitions. it is quite amazing to say stop it so that it is fair for those no doing the activities.
like that overall standard drop.
it will be much better to support the training activities with ah gong paid fees for by those who cannot afford so that all are better trained.
then overall standard will go up.
little money solve the problem. instead of causing a lot of hurt.
money spend could get back as the increased spending in education eco system will generate more transactions, more economic growth and more tax revenue.