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This chapter provides an overview of Singapore’s early care and education landscape, as contextualized within the nation’s unique economic and sociopolitical setting. It introduces Singapore’s political and cultural history as a British colony as a backdrop to understanding the development of subsequent current educational policies. The chapter considers key government initiatives in the private preschool sector vis-à-vis the government-run primary and secondary school system and the educational issues arising in the last decade.
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US$1 equals approximately Singapore $1.4.
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Lim, M.Y.S., Lim, A. (2017). Governmentality of Early Childhood Education in Singapore: Contemporary Issues. In: Rao, N., Zhou, J., Sun, J. (eds) Early Childhood Education in Chinese Societies. International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1004-4_12
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