Teens from low-income homes get help learning key life skills in pilot programme
SINGAPORE – Woodlands Ring Secondary School students who come from low-income homes are getting extra help developing skills that will help prepare them [...]
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Five teens hurt in shooting near US school: Police
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – A shooting near a US high school left five teenagers wounded on Monday (Nov 15), police said. Officers in [...]
Your rubbish for our books: Indonesian library creates literacy from litter
PURBALINGGA, INDONESIA (REUTERS) – A librarian in Indonesia’s Java island is lending books to children in exchange for rubbish they collect, in a [...]
China passes law to cut homework pressure on students
SHANGHAI (REUTERS) – China has passed an education law that seeks to cut the “twin pressures” of homework and off-site tutoring in core [...]
Girl, 6, breaks Singapore's Pi memorisation record; recites 1,560 digits
SINGAPORE – Six-year-old Ishani Shanmugam broke the national record for most digits of Pi memorised by reciting 1,560 decimal places of the mathematical [...]
Singapore foster mum coaxes teenager to come out of her shell
SINGAPORE – Nadia (not her real name) wants to be a baker and sell kueh after she graduates. Her dream was nurtured by [...]
China's tutoring ban hits overseas teachers and cultural links
BEIJING (AFP) – Every morning, Sam Josti logged on from her US home to teach children halfway around the world, just one of [...]
MOH points to Denmark's Covid-19 battle, similar to Singapore's, but children more affected there
SINGAPORE – No child in Singapore has fallen severely ill with Covid-19 so far, but the Ministry of Health (MOH) has referred to [...]
Thailand seeing 'Children's rights crisis' due to Covid-19: Unicef official
BANGKOK – Since the new school year started this year, 15-year-old Peerapat Tiemkoksung has found it a challenge to keep up with the [...]
Single phase for children of alumni under new P1 registration rules from 2022
SINGAPORE – Children of alumni will have only one phase reserved for them in the Primary 1 registration exercise instead of separate phases [...]