International schools must offer better value, prep kids for future workplace

GLOBAL financial and tech hubs from Silicon Valley to Hong Kong and Singapore have been waging a battle to win talent to provide IT services, disrupt businesses or join startups. Until now, the battle lines focused on costs or shortage of housing, the standard of living - including air quality issues in Beijing and Hong Kong - and availability of work visas.

The Singapore government has become probably the first in the world to directly tackle a major problem that few nations have op…