Singapore's tuition industry is now worth more than a billion dollars.

eatshitndie said:

anyone who has drank the blessed water of sg from her pristine pipes and "sewage-free" storage tanks, and peed and pooped into her superb sewage system is 100% sinkie. it's extremely difficult to get rid of the pak si buay chau residue.

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Utter rubbish. Even Prof Andrew Ng's grandpa will be laughing at this.

Seee3 said:

Not all teachers fault, the system and parents are major culprits.

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I must be striking lottery all the time, a number of my teacher friends do stay back to help their students. Altogether now! Huat ah!

eatshitndie said:

kids in sg are multitasking due to high expectations placed upon them by parents and the system, thanks to a plethora of extra-curricula services and aids offered in abundance by the child-friendly environment which emphasizes excellence and opportunity for every child.....

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Yes kids are multitasking and the environment is most conducive and child-friendly. Besides extra activities from school, they are so motivated that they also come up with their own dreams. Girls aspired to become k-pop stars so they save their pocket money and queue to attend concerts of their idols. Boys aspire to be the next gaming champion. They locked themselves in the room practicing without sleep and meals. Both gender are blessed with doting parents who engage tutors to lessen their school workloads and who buy them the latest hand phone and laptop to help them in their pursue. For parents who can't afford, the kids even work part-time to pay for their tickets and gadgets so that they are a step nearer to success. What bright future we have.

Seee3 said:

Yes kids are multitasking and the environment is most conducive and child-friendly. Besides extra activities from school, they are so motivated that they also come up with their own dreams. Girls aspired to become k-pop stars so they save their pocket money and queue to attend concerts of their idols. Boys aspire to be the next gaming champion. They locked themselves in the room practicing without sleep and meals. Both gender are blessed with doting parents who engage tutors to lessen their school workloads and who buy them the latest hand phone and laptop to help them in their pursue. For parents who can't afford, the kids even work part-time to pay for their tickets and gadgets so that they are a step nearer to success. What bright future we have.

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exactly. they're not just bookworms. some are excellent heros of middle earth players while some are super serial players of tiong bu's while some are record breakers of super sex sessions. myths about sinkie students who can't do "x". they actually do. :p

http://www.innovationmagazine.com/innovation/volumes/v11n1/coverstory1.shtml

Confuseous said:

He said: "My children asked for tuition as they felt they could not catch up in school. They said their teachers teach too fast.

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Why are the teachers teaching so fast?

zhihau said:

Why are the teachers teaching so fast?

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The teachers are going at the right pace. Some students are too slow because they are stupid.

It's their money. They can do what they wish to with it. For the kid, some are academically inclined, some are musically talented, some are sports oriented, some like to cook, some may have criminal tendencies. Not all are geared for success at school subjects. It is in their youth that they have to find their interests, and not be shoved into "streams" by others' decisions. The main purpose of school is to provide a place for socialization, That's where they go to interact, meet and form friends, pick up fashion tips, participate in sports, organize parties. develop community spirit. If their parents are so engrossed in academic excellence, that is their choice, and the kid's fate. S/he should be having fun at school. Meanwhile, tuition teachers have a good market to sell their efforts. I wouldn't bring the teachers into this debate, they are working class blokes doing their job earning a paycheck. They are not supermen.

Cheers!

Seee3 said:

It is not always true that parents have alot of money to spend. The real truth is if the kid is not extremely bright, he/she will never be able to cope without tuition. Rich people engage rich tutors that charge $70 per hour (group tuition some more). Poor people attend tuition above hdb shophouses for about $240 per monh. Both groups need tuition because our schools are not teaching. Don't ever believe fairy tales that we have many helpful teachers who will stay back to give one to one coaching. More like hitting lottery if you ever meet one. Not all teachers fault, the system and parents are major culprits.

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Maybe they should turn all schools into tuition centers instead. Saves the government some $$ in providing education for the nation.

Leongsam said:

Some students are too slow because they are stupid.

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Ah... They aren't stupid then, either slow in comprehending the conceptual knowledge or having no interest in the subject matter perhaps?

Now we know why some bastard parents faked 'husband missing or dead' conspiracy crisis to enter Angmoh countries to study angmoh schools through back door and jumped queue. Angmoh school no pressure and no tuitions for kids.

Take too long to queue and may not get it. Go through back door and jumped queue cost much more less than through normal mean and quick fix.

frenchbriefs said:

this can only mean 2 things,sinkaporeans are daft and stupid,its costing more and more money just to keep them on the same level and pass the retarded education system in singapore.all the money in the world isnt going to make sinkies any smarter.

or two:with so much tutoring,our sinkies are going to be geniuses soon,pretty soon we would be clinching nobel prizes and winning pulitzer prizes and discovering new way to compress 10 million people into 600 sqkm.

im going with number one.

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Too many students, too few teachers. The classroom sizes are too big.

zhihau said:

Why are the teachers teaching so fast?

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jw5 said:

Too many students, too few teachers. The classroom sizes are too big.

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Possibly, and I wouldn't discount the fact that the language barrier is another hurdle.
Academic language is one thing, lay men's term is another. Code switching between the two to deliver a concept to those without prior knowledge can be tough, undoing the misconception is tougher :o:o:o

This could be another job at risk to be taken over by the robots. :p

zhihau said:

Possibly, and I wouldn't discount the fact that the language barrier is another hurdle.
Academic language is one thing, lay men's term is another. Code switching between the two to deliver a concept to those without prior knowledge can be tough, undoing the misconception is tougher :o:o:o

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jw5 said:

This could be another job at risk to be taken over by the robots. :p

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Plausible, collective knowledge is pervasive, once a network understands emotion and gains self awareness, the role of a teacher can be relegated to a machine.

Tuition in singapore is now a billion-dollar industry

[h=1]TUITION IN SINGAPORE IS NOW A BILLION-DOLLAR INDUSTRY[/h]
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From ‘$1 billion spent on tuition in 1 year’, 9 Nov 2014, article by Theresa Tan, Sunday Times
Some parents are known to pump in almost $6K a month on tuition for their kids. That’s more than what the average household spends on food ($1188/mth), transport($811), clothes/shoes ( $156) and recreation, including holidays, ($292) COMBINED in 2012-2013 (12 interesting trends about Singapore household income and spending, Sep 18, 2014, ST). Now a billion dollar industry that has naturally spawned copycats and scammers, this amount speaks volumes about how tuition has taken precedence even over some of the bare necessities of life for some Singaporeans. We are no longer just a Tuition Nation. We are tuition JUNKIES.
All this despite PM Lee’s assertion that the PSLE is not the be-all and end-all in 2012, and after the Ministry ceased announcing top scorers in the exam. This year, PM Lee again reiterated that there’s ‘too much tuition’ going on in Singapore, quite the understatement really. In 1981, tuition was already a million-dollar ($52 million) goldmine, with parents spending up to $125 a month. A 2009 survey revealed that 85% of students between 13-19 spend FOUR HOURS per week on tuition, that’s excluding hours spent on CCAs. The number of tuition/enrichment centres also jumped from 750 in 2012 to 850 this year. And that’s counting only those registered with MOE (Tuition seen as ‘necessity’ for students to do well, 2 Sep 2014, ST), and excluding private tutors. How many are out there under the Ministry’s radar operating out of a house in Lentor? How many are earning big bucks like millionaire super Physics tutor Phang Yu Hon? ( The other lucrative subjects taught by super-tutors are JC economics, Math and General Paper). If you’re an aspiring tutor aiming to bank on this national addiction, you’ll never get anywhere teaching Geography or, god forbid, Literature.



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In fact, there are so many centres business owners have to resort to bad spelling to differentiate themselves, like Beautyful Minds . Some are not even just ‘classrooms’ anymore. We have ‘STUDIOS, HUBS, LABS and MUSEUMS’, and there are centres that even decide the career path of your kids before they complete primary school, like Little Professors. Or those that promise to groom you into a business powerhouse through ‘leadership skills’. Some parents even go out of their way to attend courses themselves on how to get their KIDS to ace the PSLE. You’d be a total disappointment to your tuition-happy parents if you grew up to be a ‘hawker-preneur’, boy.
But it’s not just the traditional subjects (Mandarin, Maths, Physics) that require tuition. We have tuition for pre-school, tuition for sports, and tuition for ABACUS. I mean, who needs a calculator or a smartphone if you have magic BEADS to perform your daily practical arithmetic, like finding out how much Mommy spends a month sending you to enrichment classes, or counting the number of precious hours of your miserable life slipping away when you could be out there in the sun learning how to ride a bike or knowing what flowers really smell like. Or if you’re the kind who actually begged your parents for tuition, the hours wasted in that useless institution known as SCHOOL.


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Re: Tuition in singapore is now a billion-dollar industry

Is there tuition to become a Ministar in Sinkiestan? Can earn millions leh!