In 2025, issues like teachers’ heavy workloads and the use of Gen AI in education came to the fore. Read more at straitstimes ...

Breaking down the barriers to moving up in life in Singapore has been at the centre of national discussion recently. SINGAPORE – Growing up in Singapore in the 1980s, Ms Lim Geok Keng had no doubt she ...

In multi-ethnic Singapore, with its four official languages, learning more than one language opens up many doors, culturally and economically. At the very least, being bilingual — speaking and writing ...

Singapore will ban secondary school students from using smartphones and smartwatches outside of lesson time, including during recess and co-curricular activities, from January 2026. The Ministry of ...

Singapore is keen to find new opportunities to deepen cooperation in the education sector with Thailand, according to its ambassador. Speaking at the first Singapore Education Fair in Bangkok, ...

Conversations in or about Singapore invariably turn towards notions of success. How the country turned around its economic and political fortunes under Lee Kuan Yew; how a precocious Joseph Schooling ...

Singapore will increase teacher hires to 1,000 annually, announced Education Minister Desmond Lee at the NIE Teachers' Investiture Ceremony. The education system needs to evolve amidst rapid global ...

Two years ago, the head of Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore asked her staff to imagine how they would build a college from scratch. "Start with a blank slate, with no legacy structure and no resource ...

Asian countries led by Singapore dominated the top spots in a keenly watched survey of education capabilities published Tuesday, while levels in Europe slipped at a record pace -- and not just because ...

Here’s a little math problem: In 2005, just 45% of the fifth-graders at Ramona Elementary School in Hollywood scored at grade level on a standardized state test. In 2006, that figure rose to 76%. What ...