I attended the joint Exhibition on the history of Chinese-Medium School ( 2008) at Hwa Chong Institute.There were 24 Chinese –Medium Schools took part in the exhibition.
The exhibition was officially opened by the ministry. It followed by a series of talk and lectures.
I attended a forum conducted by five principals on the Past, Present and Future of the Chinese schools. It was very enlightening.
In the programme, it stated there was a website set up for this even . When I log in, I was not able to see the programme on line.
The organiser should make use of the IT to disseminate the info.
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MOE should be given credit for organising the exhibition and the followed up forum. You did not mentioned details of the audience, but I believe it comprised mostly students, teachers and members from the educational community. By relating historical events of these chinese medium schools, MOE has a lofty ideal of spreading the importance of the chinese language, culture, tradition and heritage, hence able to impress upon the students the value of studying chinese in view of China emerging as a global power, particularly in Asia, in the 21st century. Currently Singaporeans and the international community are much obsessed in learning English which nobody would deny its international stature. If we are observant enough, we can find many people of different races in the world are currently learning chinese in both China and Taiwan. For example it is no more a novelty to find Europeans, Africans and others speaking fluent mandarin, and I think many of them can even speak better than we locals. In other words, it is time for us to take the learning of the chinese language seriously.
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