“Noun. koyok (uncountable) (Singapore, informal) A phoney or fraudulent item; anything deceptively promoted as genuine or of high quality.”—Wiktionary “Don’t buy your own koyok” was a common injunction from one of my first bosses, an...
Research and Resources
Category: Transforming Education
PSLE Optional? How Will That Work!?
EveryChild.sg was formed by concerned parents to highlight the need for Singapore’s education system to improve. So far, we’ve shown you: That the PSLE serves no learning or science-based purpose; That no other country with a great...
6 Better Ways To Assess Learning than PSLE
At the 2022 budget debate in parliament (7 March), Minister for Education Chan Chun Sing tried to explain why tests and exams in our schools cause so much stress: Because we use it to compare ourselves/ our children to others, rather than...
Report Summary: Academic Stress Among Primary Schoolers in Singapore
If you’ve only got a minute: EveryChild.SG interviewed 15 Singapore-based child psychologists and psychiatrists for a report on the potential link between academic stress during primary school and poor mental health among young...
Open Letter from Educators on Education Reform
Dear Prime Minister, Subject: Proposal from Educators for Reforming Primary Education in Singapore In your 2020 speech at the NUS115 Distinguished Speaker Series, as the former Minister for Education, you had highlighted the critical...
How To Reduce Class Sizes in Primary School
MOE recently published a parliamentary reply and an EdTalk piece on reducing class sizes and how class sizes are determined. MOE admits that “a typical form class size is around 40 students” and its current explanation for why...
3 Facts about PSLE Every Singaporean Should Know
How does PSLE in its current form benefit your child? If no-one, including MOE, has been able to clearly explain to you the benefits of PSLE, it's because there aren’t any! PSLE is just a hurdle every parent in Singapore knows they have...
Why Foreigners are Shocked at our Class Sizes
Well, because our primary school class sizes are so much larger than other developed countries! Our primary school class sizes are also larger than private schools catering to upper-middle and high-income families in developing countries:...
21st Century Competency (21CC) and PSLE – “Neither can live while the other survives!”
Staying Relevant How do we prepare our youth to be successful in a rapidly evolving working environment? With increasing automation, digitisation, and AI, what are job-creators looking for from job-seekers? Ask any business or employer...
Busting the Myth: Game Theory Explains Why Reducing PSLE Pressure Can’t Be Done by ‘Shifting Mindsets’
The Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) is an academic milestone for 12-year-olds in Singapore that places massive stress and pressure on students, parents and teachers. The government has long argued that what is required is a...