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SINGAPORE 🇸🇬
Education
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yearly budget on education has been increasing since 2009, from 9.88 to 13.09 billion in 2018.
In the OECD PISA test in 2018, Singapore got 1st in reading, 2nd in mathematics and 2nd in science among 78 countries.
Youth Action Plan, an initiative that is part of a wider plan by the Government to engage youths, has a $50,000 grant for their ideas on government policies.
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Meritocratic system
Various streaming systems and big examinations (e.g. PSLE, O levels, A levels) seek to identify & groom bright young students for positions of leadership.
Effective as a tool for social mobility
Education is seen as a passport to upward social mobility in Singapore and in many other countries. In view of the importance attached to examination results as ‘passports’ to employment or stepping stones to the high quality of life, the system of education in Singapore today is largely examination dominated. The highly competitive atmosphere and value placed on meritocracy make examinations the central concerns of both the pupils and the schools
Heavily subsidised education system which offers equal opportunity to all students.
Provides egalitarian society where no child is disadvantaged due to their background
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Healthcare
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Chronic diseases
Diabetes
new nutrition summary label called Nutri-Grade will be introduced from the end of 2021 to help consumers better gauge how healthy pre-packaged drinks are at a glance
advertising ban on media platforms such as broadcast,cinema,imposed on beverages that are deemed the most unhealthy and graded the lowest, grade
One in nine Singapore residents aged 18 to 69 years were affected by diabetes in 2010. One in three diabetics were unaware that they had diabetes. Among the diabetics who were aware of their disease, one in three had poor control of their condition. even after accounting for Singapore's ageing population, the prevalence of diabetes in Singapore (10.5 percent) is higher than the world's average (8.8 percent). Rising obesity is also a significant contributor to the rise in diabetes prevalence.
Complication of diabetes
2 in 3 new kid entry failure cases were due to diabetes 1 in 2 people who had a heart attack had co-existing diabetes 2 in 5 ppl who had stroke had co-existing diabetes
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Politics
2015 Nepal Earthquake
- SAF deployed medical team to help Nepal local clinic by attending to sick and injured patients daily
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Environment
EFFORTS BY NGO TO INCREASE AWARENESS
- Guided walks are available in places such as Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve and Pulau Semakau.
- run by NParks and various interest groups including The Blue Water Volunteers
- Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve sees about 100,000 visitors per year.
- International Coastal Cleanup Singapore
- By Toddycats (volunteers of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research)
- one of Singapore’s largest environmental conservation programmes with an average annual participation of 1,500 volunteers.
EFFORTS BY FIRMS (SUPERMARKET) TO PROMOTE A CHANGE IN CONSUMERS BEHAVIOUR
- "Bring Your Own Bag Day” campaign, rolled out by Singapore Environment Council in 2007
- supermarkets offering rebates if shoppers brought their own recyclable bags instead of plastic bags from the supermarket.
- programme discontinued in 2010, public education efforts slowed, BUT the consumption of plastic bags continued to decrease. NTUC Fairprice estimated that 9 million plastic bags were saved in 2014.
The Carbon Emissions-Based Vehicle Scheme (CEVS) was launched to encourage the adoption of cars that are more eco-friendly. The amount of rebate depends on the car's carbon emission.
new Vehicular Emissions Scheme in 2019 has led to a rise of about 60 percent in the number of cars eligible for rebates for being more environmentally friendly, only 10,700 out of 39,735 cars ( about one third) registered in the first half of 2019 qualified for the rebates.
Environmental Protection and Management Act as enacted in 1999 and revised in 2002:
- An Act to consolidate the laws relating to environmental pollution control, to provide for the protection and management of the environment and resource conservation, and for purposes connected therewith.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in his National Day Rally in 2019, the defence against climate change must be given as much emphasis as the military defence provided by the Singapore Armed Forces because climate change threatens the existence of the country in the 21st century.
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HDB is trying to generate more clean energy
- doubling its capacity for solar power by 2030, which means its able to power 135000 four room flats with clean energy
Building Construction Authority (BCA) Green Mark Scheme launched in January 2005 to drive Singapore's construction industry towards more environmentally-friendly buildings.
- promote sustainability in the built environment and raise environmental awareness among developers, designers and builders when they start project conceptualisation and design, as well as during construction.
- Khoo Teck Puat Hospital
Two recent household recycling surveys conducted by the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR) and the National Environment Agency (NEA) found that around 60 per cent of Singapore households are recycling regularly. The most common channel used for recycling was the blue recycling bins, with 56 per cent of those recycling regularly using the blue bins at least once a week. Convenience was an important enabling factor for recycling.
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