Discuss the merits and demerits of the education system in your country.

Required readings:

• Singapore's Education System
• Recent Developments in Singapore's Education System
• Singapore's education system works @The Straits Times Forum http://comment.straitstimes.com/showthread.php?t=7271
• Singapore's education to focus more on producing global players
• Problems of Singapore's Education System @ Newsweek http://www.angkor.com/2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showthread.php?t=1509
• Singapore's Education System @ SGForum http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/1639
• Singapore's Education System Ensures Equal Opportunities
• Singapore's Education System Works
• Can the Singapore Education System Produce Entrepreneurs
• The School System in Singapore
• Singapore's Education System must move beyond an emphasis on results
  

You should also spend some time looking at the private education system in Singapore. This will include international schools as well as the universities. You should also google MOE, SOTA, La Selle SIA College of the Arts, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and the Singapore Sports School for your own enrichment.
Best wishes

Best wishes
Mr Low

Juvenile Delinquency - who is to blame?

Instuctions:

• Prepare an essay outline for the above question.
  
• We will review this question on 21 June.
• DO NOT LEAVE THIS TO THE LAST MINUTE

Online Readings (I have only linked you to a home page or main page. It is your duty to explore each site fully.):

1. About Juvenile Delinquents


2. The Suboridnate Courts of Singapore: Juvenile Justice Division


3. The National Committee on Youth Guidance and Rehabilitation


4. http://fcd.ecitizen.gov.sg/TeenageNYouth/ParentingTeenagers/JuvenileDelinquency/


5. Apathetic? Not us!


6. Factors Affecting Adolesent Delinquency in Singapore


7. Armed and Dangerous: the new reality of teen crime


8. Islamists target teen crime gangs in London


9. Immaturity may spark teen crime


10. About.com: Juvenile Crime and Issues

Your Crime and Punishment Package (Always a reliable source for readings):

1. Justice for the young - a question of age


2. No mercy for Iranian minors


3. Why they kill

Further Online Reading (only to be done after you have completed the above):

1. The case of Lizzie Borden


2. The case of Mary Bell


3. Lionel Tates


4. 9 year old girl accused of killing playmate


5. Celebrity Mugshots


6. 102 Juvenile Crime Facts (USA)

Looking forward to your essay outlines!

Mr Low