Tuition industry gets more crowded, but players are upbeat about prospects

Singapore

FOR all the consternation that Singapore's falling birth rate has caused, it has not stopped the tuition industry from growing - or dampened the conviction of industry players that the demand for their services will stay strong and even increase.

Data-analysis firm Handshakes, studying information from the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (Acra), found 8,376 active entities offering tuition-related services at the end of last year. (These services included academic tutoring, general secondary and post-secondary, non-tertiary, and higher education programmes.)