Parents want preschool education covered by govt: survey


Yahoo! News Singapore, 15 Aug 2012
Kindergarten classes should be made part of Singapore’s public school education system.
That was the opinion of 72 per cent of 1,395 parents who responded to an online survey conducted by the Lien Foundation on Singapore’s preschool education in the second half of July this year.
When asked what they thought could be done to improve preschools in Singapore, most of the respondents felt that the government should firstly, increase subsidies to help parents, secondly, raise the qualifications, pay and status of preschool teachers and, lastly, regulate school fees. Full story