{"title":"Sam C. Y. (2017). Private education in Singapore. contemporary issues and challenges. Singapore: world scientific.","authors":"S. Shukaitis","doi":"10.37074/jalt.2018.1.1.7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"At present there are over 300 private education institutions (PEIs) in Singapore involving over 150,000 students. This is significantly more than enrolled in public universities, in a country whose population is only around 5.6 million. Despite this, very little is written about the nature of private education in Singapore. This is where a book like Sam Choon-Yin’s Private Education in Singapore is valuable.","PeriodicalId":334920,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.37074/jalt.2018.1.1.7","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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At present there are over 300 private education institutions (PEIs) in Singapore involving over 150,000 students. This is significantly more than enrolled in public universities, in a country whose population is only around 5.6 million. Despite this, very little is written about the nature of private education in Singapore. This is where a book like Sam Choon-Yin’s Private Education in Singapore is valuable.