Commentary
The education arms race cannot be solved by MOE alone
Education Conversations will be more meaningful if schools, employers, parents and students also spell out what they are willing to do differently.
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If we want children to have room to grow, adults must help create that room.
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Nicholas Thomas
When Education Minister Desmond Lee announced his ministry’s Education Conversations recently, one phrase gave the exercise its real weight: the education “arms race”.
The Ministry of Education (MOE) can review examinations, admissions and pathways. Yet an education arms race is sustained by social behaviour as much as by policy, and policy alone cannot fix it.
