'Toward a Better Future' provides a comprehensive analysis of education development in Singapore since 1965, giving particular attention to the strategic management that has enabled Singapore to transform its education and training system from one similar to that of many Sub-Saharan African countries four decades ago into one of the world's best-performing systems. It is one of a pair of concurrently-published books presenting materials originally developed for a 2006 study tour to Singapore and Vietnam for senior education officials from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Madagascar, and Mozambique.The second book, 'An African Exploration of the East Asian Education Experience', presents five country studies, as well as regional, comparative analyses highlighting insights gained during the study tour and putting them in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa.Together, the two books aim to foster knowledge exchange between Sub-Saharan African and East Asian countries on good practices in the design and implementation of education policies and programs. By facilitating the cross-country fertilization of ideas between two regions with relatively limited contact in the past, these books fi ll a clear gap in the current literature on development practice in education.

Toward a Better Future: Education and Training for Economic Development in Singapore since 1965

Business & Money

Goh, Chor Boon

Birger, Fredriksen

Lee, Sing Kong

Education & Reference

World Bank Publications

In October 1943, the 415km long Burma-Thailand Railway or the "Death Railway" was completed to serve the imperial interest of Japan in the Pacific War. Traversing some of the densest jungles in the world, it was an engineering feat that took the lives of thousands of Allied prisoners-of-war and Asian labourers. Many former prisoners-of-war have written about their harrowing experiences along the Death Railway. However, what is not well documented in this growing literature is the role played by indigenous peoples in the history of the Death Railway. This book adds a fresh perspective by focussing on the experiences of a Singaporean who served as a hospital assistant in the "death camps" in Thailand. Born in 1909 and educated in St. Joseph's Institution and Raffles Institution, Tan Choon Keng had several years of medical training when war disrupted the lives of the people of Singapore. In March 1943 he was transported north, where he lived for nearly two years in "living hell." Written by historian Dr. Goh Chor Boon who interviewed the 90-year-old Choon Keng in his home, this book also provides insights into the Pacific War - a racist war that led to man's deployment of the nuclear bomb - and introduces recent research and literature on the Death Railway. The poignant account will help young Singaporeans to understand better the trials and tribulation of their grandparents during the war. Contents: Portrait of a Well-Known Family, An Athlete and a Medical Student, From Singapore to Syonan, Witnessing Hell, Home Sweet Home: Surviving in Syonan, The Racist War Ended, Epilogue

Living hell: Story of a WWII survivor at the death railway

Asiapac Books

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