Lending the Poor a Helping Hand
Dr Vivian Balakrishnan disappoints me. In a recent debate in Parliament with Dr Lily Neo he could have done much better. But he didn’t. The MP for Jalan Besar GRC, Dr Lily Neo, had urged the minister to provide a permanent and constructive safety net so as to improve the plight of the children from the lowest income families....
30 years on and we still can’t seem to get it
The productivity message began in 1981 with the launch of a productivity movement for the public. It went down to the nuts and bolts, such as setting up a system of national awards to reward productive practices in the form of paid holiday tours, exchange or study trips resulting in the mushrooming of worker-engagement groups...
Singapore Democrats propose alternative education policy
Singapore’s educational system has always been geared towards producing talent for a particular industry the government considers important at that material time. Today it may be the computer industry, tomorrow life sciences. In 2001, the education minister related that this was because the government had to prepare Singaporeans...
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