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		<title>Mum&#8217;s the word on smarter children</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Straits Times Forum Published on Sep 21, 2011 THE announcement of my engagement to a Caucasian surprised many who had accepted my status of being &#8216;on the shelf&#8217; (&#8216;A PhD&#8217;s fine, but what about love and babies?&#8217;; Sept 6). It is my PhD that is currently on the shelf as after more than 10 years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=331717&amp;post=322&amp;subd=takchek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fukushima 50 &#8211; lessons in worker loyalty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mar 19, 2011, Straits Times Forum THE extraordinary courage of the Fukushima 50 &#8211; the Japanese engineers and technicians battling to contain the nuclear fallout from reactors damaged in the earthquake and tsunami &#8211; offers lessons to Singaporeans. One important factor behind the dedication of these workers is Japan&#8217;s collectivistic corporate culture that values loyalty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=331717&amp;post=318&amp;subd=takchek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Employment enclaves</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mar 1, 2011 The Straits Times &#8216;While there is a quota for foreigners in public housing, there is none to prevent foreign bosses from preferring fellow citizens over Singaporeans.&#8217; MS LAURELLE HO: &#8216;Mr Cheong Tuck Kuan raised an important point about hiring Singaporeans first (&#8216;Target white-collar foreigners instead&#8217;; Feb 23). While this may not facilitate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=331717&amp;post=314&amp;subd=takchek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tuition and Socioeconomic status</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feb 12, 2011 PAPER CHASE Skewing a level field MS PHYLLIS Christe&#8217;s letter (&#8216;A matter of means, not just genes&#8217;; Jan 31) raises a pertinent point about an increasingly uneven playing field in the paper chase, which appears to favour the more affluent. As a student of a decent neighbourhood school who made it to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=331717&amp;post=311&amp;subd=takchek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Non-grad parents, but they made it to top schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Non-grad parents, but they made it to top schools By Rachel Chang THE first glimpse 12-year-olds get of their secondary schools, their homes for the next four years, is on Reporting Day every December. What Isdiyanah Dulkifli, now 15, saw then were big, shiny cars parked on every spare inch in the Raffles Girls&#8217; School [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=331717&amp;post=309&amp;subd=takchek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Diary of a reformed elitist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apr 8, 2010 I AM as Rafflesian/Raffles Girls&#8217; School (RGS)/&#8217;elite&#8217; as they come. My father was a Raffles Institution boy; I went through Raffles Girls&#8217; Primary School (RGPS), RGS, then Raffles Junior College, then on to the National University of Singapore, boarding at Raffles Hall. My sisters went through much the same route. My little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=331717&amp;post=307&amp;subd=takchek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scoring high in grades but not in values</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elite school students who never mix with others lose perspective Apr 3, 2010 By Sandra Leong OVER the past two weeks, the words &#8216;meritocracy&#8217; and &#8216;elitism&#8217; have stirred feelings of loyalty, indignation and dismay all at once. Just ask the old boys of St Joseph&#8217;s Institution (SJI), who have been making a very public case [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=331717&amp;post=305&amp;subd=takchek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Defending Scholarships but not all Scholars”</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Address by Eddie Teo, Chairman, Public Service Commission, at the Singapore Seminar 2009 in London on 31 Oct 09 &#160; I am very glad to see so many of you here today. When I first discussed this Seminar with the scholar organizers, the question was raised if the topics we chose would attract a large [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=331717&amp;post=303&amp;subd=takchek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Be Happy in Academe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By GREGORY PENCE Recently a young male professor in philosophy astonished me when he turned down a tenure-track job offer at a small, rural public university and then decided to leave academe. If he couldn&#8217;t get a great job at a research university, he told me, or at least a job in a great city, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takchek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=331717&amp;post=299&amp;subd=takchek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Delivering a 30-second elevator speech on my work</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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