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Commentary: Home-based learning this time round will be less traumatic It can feel like a repeat of 2020’s educational moment but things are very different the second time around, says Cherie Tseng.
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SINGAPORE: We cannot say we did not see the writing on the wall. All signs pointed to the eventuality that parents would need to accept home-based learning (HBL).
We have been bombarded with news of the relentlessness of the B1617, a double mutant COVID-19 variant sweeping across India, US, UK and Germany, leaving scores of victims in its wake. Its arrival to our sunny shores is an eventuality.
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All primary, secondary, junior college and Millennia Institute students will shift to full home-based learning from May 19 till the end of the school term on May 28
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Singapore plans to close most in-school classes this week and move to home-based learning, as a spike in unlinked cases poses the biggest challenge since last year to the city’s efforts to tackle the pandemic.
All primary, secondary, junior college and Millennia Institute students will shift to full home-based learning from May 19 till the end of the school term on May 28, the Ministry of Education said in a statement on Sunday. Preschools and student care centers remain open to support parents who have to work.