Is school homework really beneficial? Does it still have a place in today’s fast-changing educational landscape? In truth, the necessity and benefit of homework is still very much open to debate. Find out more in this article on homework, viewed from the perspectives of both teachers and parents.

The written examination for PSLE 2019 starts from 26 September 2019 and ends on 2 October 2019. Be triple-certain on the dates and be prepared!

Have you ever wondered how PSLE T-score is calculated and how it affects your child? Basically, it is a calculated score relative to how others are performing. It is akin to running a race and every runner is ranked from top to bottom. Every difference in points will be used to rank the students accordingly.

A study by Fan and colleagues (2013) on 70 million ‘tweets’ on Weibo (a social site in China) found that happy tweets were shared among close relationships while angry tweets were shared by both close and distant relationships. This finding was clearly evident in the furore raised over a recent Facebook comment posted by a local educator, Ms. Lenny Rahman, who lashed out at the lack of parental responsibility of parents “from a particular race” who “do not even want to try to get involved with their kids’ education”.