and Singapore
ed by listening to conversations be- system focused on creating quality labor, rather than Students come to this Taoist
defines educational areas that are important for low cost labor, so business would want to locate in Sin- temple to ring the bell for
tween the students and between other
students and the country’s economic growth gapore.
people encountered during the trip. prosperity in education.
(Dugger, 2010, pg.2). According to the U.S. De- Singapore has become an invaluable location for the
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partment of Labor, the 5% of U.S. workers in a sci- STEM market because of the quality and talent of its residents.
Facts & Spending several days exploring
ence or engineering related field are responsible
Singapore offered the unique oppor- Unlike the United States, where public education through high school is com-
Data for 50% of the sustained economic expansion. pulsory and free to students, every level of education in Singapore has a
tunity to observe the dense and bus-
The job market for STEM majors is growing at monthly tuition.
tling landscape.
twice the rate of other occupations, but in 2011 on- Education System
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ly 13% of United States students choose a STEM The system separates students into differ-
Data was obtained through this method to make stronger conclusions about