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This paper presents the qualitative examination of teacher recruitment commercials over fifteen years to reveal the evolution of education objectives and teacher requirements of the Singapore education system. The commercials analysed... more
This inquiry attempts to address the question: How has the Singapore city-state used its education system in integrating three important cornerstones of nation-building? Using selected data from the National Orientations of Singaporeans... more
Singapore has earned accolades as one of the leading education systems in the world, based on its record in international assessments, including TIMSS and PISA. This has contributed to the entrenchment of ‘assessment’ becoming an... more
The Singapore Ministry of Education's Enhanced Performance Management System (EPMS) was instituted in 2005 as a system of professional accountability to enhance the standards and stakes of teacher professionalism in schools. This essay... more
The book will be a core reading for several National Institute of Education (NIE) assessment courses. It covers an ambitious array of assessment issues and ideas, by addressing central and recurring assessment practices and challenges... more
This paper offers an analysis of Singapore’s Chinese language education and assessment policy. The paper is comprised of four sections. The first section outlines the structure of the paper which is followed in the second section by a... more
Dream Future Report encapsulates vision of Singapore youths for next 50 years. Organised by Association for Public Affairs. See www.apa.sg for more details.
This report analyzes the way four high-performing systems provide professional learning to their teachers. Shanghai, British Columbia, Singapore, and Hong Kong all score near the top of all jurisdictions tested in mathematics, reading and... more
This draft is an expanded version of invited presentations at (1) the AWARE Roundtable on Secularism, Singapore, 9 December 2010 and (2) the Conference on Race, Religion and Language, Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies, 9 October... more
E. Astafieva considers the system of education in Singapore in the context of the nation building. She also studies the trends in the Singapore’s government policy in education since the independence of the country. The author describes... more
Study of the trajectory of arts education in Singapore through examination of key policies and government reports suggests that, although the arts and arts education have generally taken a back seat to other national priorities, the... more
With the rise of educational mobilities worldwide, students’ experiences of educational sojourn, especially that of the Chinese Mainland students, have come under greater research attention in recent years. Amongst diverse kinds of... more
This article critically examines the sense-making processes of key stakeholders of Singapore’s education: a historically dominant city-state, highly- qualified teachers, and high-performing students. The article interrogates the Teaching... more
A taxonomy of film graduation projects based on key issues common to the films and on the generation-specific points of view. Conference on Film and Cinema, Asia Research Institute, 2011.
With the articulation of new ‘Holistic and Balanced Assessment’ initiatives in Singaporean schools, a new standard of conceptualising and enacting classroom assessment is expected of Singaporean teachers. This paper draws on findings from... more
This book explores the role of education in the formation of the Singapore developmental state, through a study of education for citizenship in Singapore from 1955 to present day. The book provides a historical study of citizenship... more
Founded on several highly influential quantitative studies, the past decade has witnessed the OECD and World Bank increasingly converge on the view that cognitive levels of students and education quality, as proxied by international... more
With the articulation of new ‘Holistic and Balanced Assessment’ initiatives in Singaporean schools, a new standard of conceptualising and enacting classroom assessment is expected of Singaporean teachers. This paper draws on findings from... more
This book examines the Singapore government’s controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service “bond”. It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese... more
Assessment in Singapore: perspectives for classroom practice, edited by
Poh-Guan Toh and See-Cheng Leong, Singapore, Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board, 2014, 130 pp., S$32 (hardcover), ISBN 978-981-07-8998-5
Poh-Guan Toh and See-Cheng Leong, Singapore, Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board, 2014, 130 pp., S$32 (hardcover), ISBN 978-981-07-8998-5
Este documento se elaboró en base a la participación de un curso de dos semanas (14 al 25 de Enero de 2013) organizado por el Civil Service College y auspiciado por el Ministry of Foreign Affairs de Singapur. El curso denominado... more
The contemporary educational landscape in Singapore is being shaped by the informational needs of capitalism and its drive to abstraction, and more specifically by the need to capture and calculate affective flows so as to extract... more
Students from Singapore rank at the top of many international educational rankings, however, Malays are generally under-represented and under-performing. This chapter examines how Malay elites have diversified their approaches to... more
This volume represents a rich multi-disciplinary contribution to an expanding literature on citizenship, identity, and education in a variety of majority and minority Muslim communities. Each of these essays offer important insights into... more
This paper, based on 12 months of fieldwork in Singapore and Malaysia, analyses policies of education as contested fields in these two countries. Malaysia is a multicultural society with 65% of Malay Malaysians and other Bumiputeras, 26%... more
Studying abroad is an increasingly prevalent form of transient migration. How do international students understand their relationship with the host society and host nationals? Based on in-depth interview data, this article investigates... more
Nanyang University (Nantah) was a Chinese-medium tertiary institution started by the Chinese community in Malaya to meet the needs of Chinese high schools graduates who could not pursue higher education in China following a change of... more
Over the past two decades, Singapore has steadily become a popular destination for migrants. While the reasons for migrating to Singapore are many and contextual, labour and education have been the primary driving factors for attracting... more
Think Future Report encapsulates the operationalisation of SG100 Dream Future vision of Singapore youths, in specific policy recommendations for next 50 years. Organised by Association for Public Affairs. See www.apa.sg for more details.
I am writing a few lines to introduce a very old friend of mine Dr Krzysztof (Chris) K. Vorbrich, whom I think you might like to meet. I have known Dr Vorbrich since the beginning of 2001. In 2001 and 2002 he was attached to the Global... more
The book will be a core reading for several National Institute of Education (NIE) assessment courses. It covers an ambitious array of assessment issues and ideas, by addressing central and recurring assessment practices and challenges... more