Overcoming challenges to become a pre-school teacher

Working to gain experience while studying enabled diploma holder to fulfil her dream

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Ms Dashini Peragash has always had an affinity for young children and wanted to be a pre-school teacher like her mother.
But it took her two tries at the O-level exams, settling for an alternative course at the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) and several years of part-time work at an enrichment centre as a teaching assistant before she could apply to study early childhood education.
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