Filling the gap in world-wide education
Social enterprise The Global Citizen caters to the region's market for niche academic co-curricular activities.
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AFTER six years of debating, Walter Yeo tried to find work as a debate coach, but was surprised to find the jobs filled by insurance agents and fitness trainers.
"A lot of them weren't debaters themselves and didn't know much about debate. Yet, they believed that they could teach it because they had experience in speaking to members of the public," he said.
From his encounter, the 25-year-old realised that schools lacked qualified debate coaches. Together with his friend Jared Yeo, 26, he started The Global Citizen (TGC), a Singapore-based education provider, in December 2015 to address this shortage.
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