Channel NewsAsia: WP candidate says government adopted his idea of smaller classes in schools

SINGAPORE VOTES 2006


Low Thia Khiang

SINGAPORE : Workers' Party Secretary-General Low Thia Khiang says the government has adopted his idea of having smaller classes in schools which he proposed more than 10 years ago.

He says they also made it public that the people should have 10 years of basic education.

Mr Low was speaking at a Workers' Party rally on Friday.

He says in the WP manifesto in 1994, they proposed that the class size in secondary schools should be reduced because it is important that the teachers should have sufficient time to spend with students.

"I know because I was a teacher," says Mr Low. - CNA/de