Archive for August 15th, 2008
Meet Mr Wikipedia
Another piece of interesting news from the Straits Times Online today. Next time you use Wikipedia, you know slighlty more about its history.
I’m not selling Wikipedia
Founder says the online resource serves more to help people than to make money
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Something Overdue
Next step for schools
It’s time now to go beyond grades: Education Minister
SINGAPORE’S education system has been very successful at the nuts and bolts – it churns out top students, and is ranked highly worldwide – but it is now time for it to evolve.
Parents these days are more educated and demanding, while children are more questioning and learn in different ways, and the system needs to keep up with rising expectations.
It needs to do more than simply churn out students with good grades, Education Minister Ng Eng Hen said yesterday in a speech at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
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