The demand for a good primary school, regarded as a crucial start in life here, has soared since the government encouraged the intake of thousands of bright students from abroad.
In 2009, US investment billionaire Jim Rogers, who took up Singapore citizenship, and his wife also performed more than 40 hours of volunteer work at Nanyang Primary.
Today, their 11-year-old daughter Happy is getting the bilingual education that her parents had intended.
This practice has become more widespread in recent years as competition for admission into elite schools intensified during registration of Primary One pupils. Full story
