In 1988 he went to Singapore for an education, ultimately getting an M.

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It makes sense that this would be the aspect of Singapore's education system that most impressed Tamir.

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The ground-breaking ceremony was attended by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who said the project was "not without risk" but "the right way forward" for higher education in Singapore.

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So I found that the education system in Singapore is kind of very controversy.

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Yet, despite the great success of its education system, Singapore has been reforming it to lay less stress on rote-learning and repetitive tests and more on self-expression.

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During this two-day visit, the Director-General is scheduled to hold bilateral meetings with Mr Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore, Rear Admiral Lui Tuck Yew, Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, and Dr Ng Eng Hen, Minister of Education and Chairman of the Singapore National commission for UNESCO.

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The idea, says Aline Wong, Singapore's senior minister of state for health and education, is to allow government hospitals greater flexibility and creativity in how they serve patients.

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Stanford's director of executive education program development, Sean Bendarkar, says the school offers a three-week general management program in Singapore which is proving very popular.

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