Subject-based banding to be fully implemented in all secondary schools by 2024



Coconuts Singapore

► Teacher seen pulling shirt of defiant student; netizens regale stories of rougher disciplinary measures

► Violent comments against student who kissed his male partner are ‘worrying’: Inter-University LGBT Network

► African-Chinese teen urges fellow Singaporeans not to use the ’N’ word

► Helping foreign workers feel included in Singapore: Art collective and university students add Bengali subtitles to English movie

►MOE sex-ed programme to advocate heterosexual marriages and nuclear family units in schools

► Parent interviewed by ST about changes in school streaming slammed for snobbish sentiments



The Pride

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Redwire Times

► Young Ballerina Expelled after Row Over Her Not Being “Slim Enough” for Dance Test

► Video of Girl in Cedar Girls’ School Uniform Having Sex at Staircase Landing Spreads Online

► Food Poisoning Outbreak at 4 PAP Kindergartens Leaves 109 Children Ill, Second Outbreak in Two Months



Young Parents

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► Is your child always angry? Here’s what to do

► Tuition or enrichment: Which is better for your kid?

► Mum prefers her kids not to mix with Normal stream students; gets flamed by netizens

► HPV vaccine for Sec 1 girls to protect against cervical cancer, but is it safe?

► Top tips to help your child manage PSLE stress



The Ka Ching

► Important Lessons to Impart your Kids about Ang Pao



The Wacky Duo

► 10 Reasons to Watch Matilda with your Child in Singapore

► SRT Gretel and Hansel : A tale of siblings for siblings



League Of Learners

► First Look and Thoughts: Abolishment of Secondary School Streaming



The Schooling Society

► Part 1 – Subject-based banding to replace streaming in secondary schools

► Part 2 – How the PSLE score will influence your child’s Sec 1 subject combination in 2027



The Raffles Press

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► A Level 2019 Student Features: With Discipline And Passion

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► Come Fly With Me: Inside The Raffles Aviation Club

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Kiasu Parents

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Sure Boh Singapore

► MSF to give more support for children with developmental needs

► 61 prison inmates received O-Levels results. 2 of them scored 5 As.

► No more N- & O-Level exams from 2024 onwards!



The Online Citizen

► School fees in Singapore: Most expensive & affordable schools in Singapore

► Mixed reaction from public over the move to abolish secondary school streaming

► Subject-Based Banding to be expanded beyond PSLE subjects

► MOE to replace streaming with subject-based banding, but the persisting social divide still needs to be addressed

► Singapore can learn a thing or two from the Danish approach to education

► Resilience Campaign and Video aims to stop stigmatization of failure and people with disabilities

► Teo Chee Hean: Streaming initiated in the past to ensure that children completed their education

► PM Lee says students excel in studies can find good jobs but Minister Ong says degrees don’t earn us a living

► Singaporean parents are focused on preparing their children for the future, says new study by HP



Mothership

► S’pore Oxford student who questioned Mahathir says he wasn’t too ‘aggressive’

► I am a 20-something-year-old S’porean millennial & I don’t plan to have kids. Here’s why.

► Today article on academics quitting NUS & NTU taken down due to ‘legal challenge’

► S’pore student gets online hate for photo of kiss with male partner, JC ‘advised’ him to take it down

► 34 S’pore prison inmates took A-Level exams behind bars. The top scorer clinched 5 As & 1 B.

► ‘Average’ NUS student claimed to get almost perfect grades on exchange with 1/5 the effort in S’pore

► PM Lee on streaming: We take education very seriously & will listen to all ideas to make it better

► Principals & teachers are unsung heroes of MOE’s subject-based banding change

► Ex-Raffles student: Streaming gave him a false sense of self-worth that’s built on other people’s failures

► (Almost) every question you have about MOE’s new system, answered

► Ong Ye Kung on subject-based banding for sec schools: “Major move” to “shift our current culture”



The Nanyang Chronicle

► NTU student youngest Singaporean to join prestigious social entrepreneur fellowship

► Supporting social causes through social media

► Brewing up a storm for the second time

► The perks of being a young parent

► Social media: a threat to morality

► Reigniting the passion for plays