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How digital connections add stress for both parents and children
19 December 2019
How digital connections add stress for both parents and children
Online teaching resources which parents can monitor and the prevalence of chat groups mean parents can “monitor” their children in the classroom and are connected to teachers and fellow parents – often adding pressure to the parenting process
Keeping the mother tongues alive Singapore's bilingual challenge
03 November 2019
Keeping the mother tongues alive Singapore's bilingual challenge
“Logically, the decision is obvious. Emotionally, the choice is painful.” That was how then-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew described the “stark choice” of pairing English with Mandarin, and not other dialects, in bilingual policy at the launch of the Speak Mandarin Campaign in 1979.