Minister for Education Chan Chun Sing has been giving a very different take of what we think going to school means on his TikTok channel @chanchunsingsg. These past few weeks, he has been busy visiting school students across Singapo ...
Elmie Nekmat remains a “grounded and hands-on academic”. Find out here, in Petir.sg’s exclusive interview with Sengkang Central Branch Chair Elmie Nekmat.
The PAP prioritises including every Singaporean on the Singapore Forward journey. To this end, PAP MPs gave suggestions in Parliament last week (Apr 17-21) on how to support different age groups and demographics of Singaporeans from youths to parents ...
Singapore is an outlier in many ways. As a tiny island, there was a time when people thought that Singapore would not make it. Except that we did, with the sentiment now immortalised in the iconic National Day song “We Are Singapore
We can distil Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s speech in Parliament this Wednesday (Apr 19) into one broad but important theme: Trust. Now, trust is not earned easily, nor given lightly. And it is needed in this very troubled global era for
Strengthening Singapore’s social fabric. Building a smart and liveable city. And expanding our system of meritocracy to be broader and more open. President Halimah Yacob set out these priorities for the Government during her Presidential Address at t ...
For people in this short-attention social media world, political debates might be “tl;dr”. Speaker Tan Chuan-Jin noted as much when the Committee of Supply (COS) debates over Government spending and direction ended on the evening of Mar 7, 2023; they ...
In Singapore, education is no longer a matter of sending our children to school but about their right to learn. For instance, how can we make learning more holistic? What kind of support can we provide to ensure learning is meaningful for