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Just like its southern neighbour, Malaysia is another country where tuition is increasingly seen as a daily necessity for pupils to get ahead with their studies. In Singapore, the emphasis is on the competitiveness of the educational landscape there; in Malaysia, on the other hand, tuition is se (...)

Selangor is Malaysia’s most developed state, having the largest economy and lowest poverty rate, as well as the largest population in the country. Therefore, what happens in Selangor can be taken as a microcosm of Malaysia itself, and tuition is no different: Most of the key players in the home (...)

Culture of education in MalaysiaEducation in Malaysia is growing more and more competitive. In recent years, changes in national education policies (such as the implementation of the Dual Language Programme or DLP and the removal of the segregation system based on students’ academic performance) as (...)

Maths can be a challenge for both the learner and the teacher, especially in Singapore, which is renowned for having shaped its own maths system and education. In the 2015 iteration of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessm (...)

A question I often get asked when I bumped into any of my friends’ parents was “Do you have tuition?”, upon finding out my grades were slightly better than my friends. After getting asked this question once, I shrugged it off as an overzealous parent trying to show concern for their child’s educ (...)

The word problems that my child is facing in primary school are too difficult. He is struggling to get them correct. How can I help my child do better at word problems? Many parents of primary school going children often face this problem when their child progresses to Primary 4 or 5. Their wor (...)