With students from the Normal stream being underrepresented in the Yale-NUS student population, how is the recent news on structural reforms in Singapore’s mainstream education system relevant to us? Paul reflects on his time in neighborhood secondary schools as both a student and an educator and the implications that this policy change could have on the school he is about to leave.
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story | Paul Jerusalem photo | Paul Jerusalem In an article by Ethel Pang ’22, she ponders: Where’s the NUS in Yale-NUS? This is undoubtedly an important question that, as Pang notes, has been asked time and again by other Yale-NUS College students. It is understandable that a first-year student would feel a disconnection more […]
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story | Paul Jerusalem, Daryl Yang photo | Paul Jerusalem Jim Sleeper and other critics of Yale-NUS College have argued since its inception that Yale University and the liberal arts have no place in an illiberal country like Singapore. We were therefore disappointed but not surprised to read Yale professor Christopher Miller’s comments in […]
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