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Pneumococcal vaccination

Pneumococcal vaccination

I received an advisory from the ministry of health last year to have a pneumococcal vaccination. I carried out the follow up vaccination today. The total cost for 2 jabs was about $200. It was expensive. There was no government subsidy. I am not complaining for myself. I can afford it. But what are low income people? The nurse... 

Catering to students who have slower rate of learning

Catering to students who have slower rate of learning

The streaming of students was under the Dr Goh Keng Swee’s report published in 1979. It detailed the problems of Singapore’s education system at that time and aimed to reduce the drop-out rate. Primary students would be streamed at the end of Primary 3 into either the normal bilingual, extended bilingual or monolingual course.... 

When MoE makes a gal’s dream come true

When MoE makes a gal’s dream come true

PM’s talk of spending more on education reminded me that a govt scholarship can help a kid’s dream come true if there’s no Bank of Mum and Dad for the kids to draw on. —————————- “The rich are different from you and me,” Scott Fitzgerald is supposed to have said; and Hemingway is supposed to have... 



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