27 June 2018
Education Minister Ong Ye Kung has encouraged Singapore students to look out for each other’s mental health and communicate with their parents regularly.
This is part of parcel of stress management.
He also said that the “Ministry of Education will make sure that the education system will evolve to help you not be too hard on yourself,”
Mr Ong also said that the education system in Singapore will introduce more flexibility to reduce stress, and adopt aptitude-based admissions for institutions of higher learning.