Of Kids and Education

Last week, Andre received an offer to pursue his undergrad studies at SIT. This was pretty momentous for him. If you've ollowed my ...

The school hols are upon us again! If you missed Lesley-Anne and me at our book launch at the Botanic Gardens, here's another chance t...

Yesterday, there was an article on Channel News Asia about how you can easily pay someone to write your essays for you. One service provid...

Recently, a news article in Strait Times sparked debate when it was revealed that more than 80% of School of the Arts (SOTA)'s 2015 gra...

The latest news on the education front is the changes to Direct School Admissions (DSA) . A reader asked me what I thought about the change...

When I tell people that Lesley-Anne is in Yale-NUS, I'm often met with puzzlement. "Oh, NUS?" Well, not exactly..."Oh, th...

Yesterday, The New Paper ran a story about how some NUS orientation camps have become increasingly sexualised . Some of the activities the k...

Finally, after much anticipation, MOE has released the new grading system for PSLE , to start in 2021 (meaning that those in p1 this year wi...

Posting on a public blog about academic results is always tricky, in my opinion. I'm constantly in two minds whether to do so. If the re...

When the 'O' level results were released this year, there was some hoo-ha when the Middle Ground reported that only 1 out of 10 stud...

The 'O' level results will be released today, so I thought it would be timely to write a JC vs poly post. This topic is something th...

Today in the Straits Times is an article on the decline of Literature students . It's not the first time they've reported on this an...