Tuition industry gets more crowded, but players are upbeat about prospects
Tuition chains that drill students for exams are becoming passé. Tech-enabled centres now hawk niche areas, soft skills, cross-disciplinary learning
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.)
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