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How Singapore can expand opportunities for its ‘lost Einsteins’
We need to facilitate more mixing across socio-economic classes and empower the less well-off through new forms of social investment.
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By minimising the “bandwidth tax”, facilitating social mixing across income class and expanding access to a wide range of reputable enrichment programmes, it is possible to make the playing field more level and encourage young Singaporeans to reach for the stars, says the writer.
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On April 29, I participated in the inaugural International Conference on Societies of Opportunity, organised by the Ministry of Social and Family Development and the Institute of Policy Studies.
The conference offered food for thought on how Singapore can continue to remain a society of opportunity for all its citizens, drawing on the latest global research in the area of income mobility and social support.
