This year, Singapore commemorates the 200th anniversary of its founding by Sir Stamford
Raffles in 1819. As we celebrate Singapore's success, we reflect upon the challenges facing …

This study reports on the professional development and school leadership programmes
requested by principals in Malaysian schools. A total of 557 principals provided feedback on …

The Singapore education system provides all schools with opportunities to innovate through
educational interventions. Based on a review of research work in innovation diffusion in …

Abstract The Learning Initiatives for the Future of Education (LIFE) are outlined in this
chapter with an introduction to the historical developments of education research at NIE …

Educational innovations enacted into any system is challenging especially if the
interventions are to be sustained by the stakeholders themselves.. This chapter documents a …

This chapter sets the stage for purposeful learning. A general description of Singapore's
education system and recent policy initiatives is given to set the background of and impetus …

The approach used in this research is a survey with quantitative methods. To obtain data
empirically, questionnaires were distributed to 145 civil servant teachers out of 682 junior …

The contribution that school leadership can make to school and teacher quality–and thereby
to pupil learning–is widely recognised. Pressures on school leaders have increased in …

This chapter explicates a future-ready model of leading toward an ecosystem supporting
education innovations based on the theory of Leadership from the Middle (LftM). An …

This chapter describes the past, present, and future research trajectory of CRPP and the
Office of Education Research at NIE Singapore. It includes the aims and initiatives in …