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Beef up support network so lifelong learning can yield payoffs
Skills training programmes should be even more closely aligned with job-placement programmes so that the utility of skills training is maximised for trainees and industry alike.
Online harm is an urgent issue for women
Three in 10 Singaporeans have been personally affected by gender-based harm online, a recent survey found. Acts of aggression and harassment are encouraged by the veil of anonymity of the online world.
Commentary: What happens when women have to juggle ‘worry work’ with paid work
COVID-19 has wrought a cost on workers, families and most pressingly, on women who shoulder the invisible labour of caregiving in addition …
Get machines to fire workers? But they lack intuition, consciousness
The science fiction trope of artificial intelligence (AI) going against human beings has been creeping into real life, with some businesses …
Beijing’s ‘invisible’ Olympics: Muted but watched online
Zhou Jun remembers the run-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics, when it seemed like everyone was learning English to be able to communicate with …
How do children learn to trust an adult’s non-verbal cues?
In judging a communicator’s trustworthiness, children consider their track record of accuracy and degree of access to knowledge, find SUTD researchers.
Book review: Stark images reevaluate colonial culture in Dutch East Indies
How best to bridge divides and strengthen a common national identity?
The issue of tribalism and identity was discussed at a conference this week. Insight looks at why the subject has come under the spotlight and why it matters.
The Big Read: Screen time all the time — the unspoken effects of COVID-19 on digital addiction
SINGAPORE: When social media sites Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp were temporarily down on Monday (Oct 4) night, it was the first time …
Messaging app chat groups a catchment for Covid-19 misinformation on ivermectin, vaccines
Checks by The Sunday Times found at least 17 Telegram groups and channels spreading Covid-19 misinformation.