Commentaries

Education principally serves two primary functions; to equip a country’s youth for gainful employment, and to build social cohesion. When Singapore became independent, its education

In Australia, international students account for more than 20% of tertiary education students – the highest proportion of international students in all OECD countries. With most

Singapore has transformed itself into a vibrant city-state with one of the highest gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in the world. However, real growth

The internationalisation of higher education has been widely found to have brought about tremendous benefits at the national, institutional and individual levels. It has become

Written by international scholars specialising in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and edited by teacher educators Subhan Zein and Richmond Stroupe, English

In a world where our media are saturated by post-truths and false moral equivalents, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to know who to trust or what

A substantial body of research literature in the Western context is clear: School principals are critical to overall school quality. The evidence suggests that the

In Hong Kong, most junior secondary students study not one but two history subjects: one is History which refers to western history and world civilisations

Most governments of less-developed countries still consider the exodus of high-skilled professionals from their home countries—a phenomenon known as brain drain—as a loss and potential

The notion of social capital, and its associated variables, have been crucial to the expansion of environmental knowledge, sustainability, ecological system, and natural resource care.

Across Asia, we are seeing countries making investments in improving the quality of their school systems. This transition from a focus on access to school

As a practising medical specialist, Singapore's first female Nominated Member of Parliament, and a founder of many civil society organisations including WINGS (Women's Initiative for

Computational thinking is based on the essential concepts of computer science and can be distilled down to four key elements: decomposition; pattern recognition; abstraction; and

All over the world, young children leave school, for a variety of reasons, but they are usually seen as voluntarily “dropping out” as if they

Public universities (including university colleges and short-cycle institutions of higher education) are created by governments to achieve public ends. These include, above all instruction and

What is Thought Leadership, really? I personally don’t really know how this term was coined. Wikipedia says the idea is seen to be inherently contradictory.

The topic of leadership has been a well-studied one and dates all the way back to the 19th century, when the Great Man Theory was

It has been a year since my collaboration began with the Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia in Bandung, Indonesia around the use of Maker Motes. I take

Education is one of the most important public policy areas for the new leader of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam whose five-year term of Chief Executive

The East Asian region is often hailed as an economic success story, particularly with the rapid growth of countries such as South Korea, Japan and

Education in Indonesia: Literacy is the Key to Learning Indonesia has a reading problem. Despite a reported 95% adult literacy rate, most available evidence suggests

Over the last half century or so, across the international development realm, donors and individuals have been extremely active in providing advice to recipient nations

The phrase ‘Social Impact’ is one of the buzzwords of today’s society. Everyone is talking about creating social impact, measuring social impact and sustaining social

At the World Economic Forum (WEF) on ASEAN in May, the youngest speaker was still in college. Twenty-one-year-old Kamolnan Chearavanont gave us hope, breaking the

For decades, we have grown accustomed to the notion of major system reform, typically involving changes to the national curriculum, followed by changes to assessment,

The arrival of the present millennium filled many with a sense of hope for the future. This hope is underwritten by a continuing faith in

Many countries love to boast about their economic strengths. After all, the Group of Eight (G8) and Group of Twenty (G20) groups are largely based

Singapore is seen as the central port between the old world and the new world. Just as the Mediterranean was seen as ‘the inmost sea

The latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) notes that Thailand and Indonesia continue to remain in the bottom ranks for their PISA scores. I

“Change is the only constant in life” – Heraclitus Heraclitus’s famous quote, stated nearly three millennia ago, rings truer than ever. When I began my