Daily Cuts - $1.8 billion: Are Singapore families spending too much on private tuition? 

The latest government survey on household expenditure has found that families in Singapore spent $1.8 billion on private tuition for their children in 2023, as expenditure on education services continues to grow. Meanwhile, more parents are also placing their children in childcare at a younger age. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman examine this growing trend of Singaporean parents spending more on their children’s education at an early age with Charmaine Teo, Vice President, Association for Early Childhood Educators (Singapore)