Booming tuition industry : reproducing social inequality in Singapore’s education system

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Liow, Ruo Yu
• مؤلفون آخرون: Premchand Dommaraju
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2016
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social stratification
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66111
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

The Singapore education system strictly observes meritocracy where it rewards students based on individual academic performance and effort. However, the existence of a widespread private tuition industry (commonly termed as shadow education system) is problematic as education, traditionally seen as...