Priority Primary 1 admission could worsen educational inequality

Assoc Prof Irene YH Ng from the Dept of Social Work and Director of Social Service Research Centre at NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, noted that plans to give priority primary school admission to pupils attending kindergartens operated by the Ministry of Education, can create more intense competition among children at a young age (and their parents) and inadvertently worsen educational inequality.

• The Straits Times, 6 December 2017, Opinion, pA20