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Upgrading Preschool Education Standards

At last year’s National Day Rally, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that 200 more childcare centers will be set up by 2013, bringing the total to 1000, and meeting the demand for 2000 new childcare educators over the next 3 years.

SEED, an institute that had its roots in 1989 as the Regional Training and Resource Centre in Early Childhood Care and Education for Asia (RTRC Asia), was so named to symbolize its role in sowing the seeds for early childhood education in Singapore. The launch of SEED on 14 September 2009 came around the same time that an $87 billion higher education bill to improve the quality of early childhood education in the USA was passed by the House.

SEED is hoping to attract 3 groups, namely housewives considering to re-enter the workforce, mid-career professionals and fresh graduates. NTUC First Campus raised its teachers’ pay package by an average of 8.4% this year while PCF also announced higher starting salaries.

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