Free Malaysia Today, 10 Aug 2011
The civil servants administering Singapore’s private education industry are learning all about the hard knocks of trying to attract students to the city-state.
Ever since a hastily arranged parliamentary act was moved to “clean up” the industry in December 2009, many private education operators who could not meet the unusually stringent requirements for running private schools have either shut down or moved to neighbouring countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia.
Yet many more, conversely, are vexed at the painfully slow and dilatory way school licences are administered and awarded, that they have begun mulling quitting Singapore altogether. Full story
