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Singaporeans came under attack this week from two well-known outspoken personalities – Prof Tommy Koh and Prof Donald Low. The common criticism from the two was that Singaporeans just did not give “a damn” about anything but themselves.
Dr Low, Senior Lecturer and Professor of Practice at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, took umbrage with the mother who described the PSLE mathematics paper as a nightmare for students. In an open letter to the Minister for Education Ong Ye Kung, Mrs Serene Eng-Yeo wrote about pressure and suicide among young boys, quoting an article which noted that the number of suicides in Singapore rose by 10 per cent in 2018, with those among boys aged 10 to 19 at “a record high”(sic). She cited experts as saying academic stress was one of the probable causes.
Dr Low, Senior Lecturer and Professor of Practice at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, took umbrage with the mother who described the PSLE mathematics paper as a nightmare for students. In an open letter to the Minister for Education Ong Ye Kung, Mrs Serene Eng-Yeo wrote about pressure and suicide among young boys, quoting an article which noted that the number of suicides in Singapore rose by 10 per cent in 2018, with those among boys aged 10 to 19 at “a record high”(sic). She cited experts as saying academic stress was one of the probable causes.
