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Kang Rui Jie and Rachel Lee win 2011 Overall Best School Boy and Girl Awards

Posted by: Les Tan Posted date: September 29, 2011 | comment :

Kang Rui Jie and Rachel Lee won the Overall Best School Boy and Girl Awards respectively for 2011. The awards were given out at the 41st Singapore Schools Sports Council (SSSC) National Colours Award Presentation. ...

National School Games to air on cable television

Posted by: Red Sports reader Posted date: April 08, 2011 | comment :

The Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore Sports Council (SSC) and StarHub are collaborating for the second year running to broadcast the National School Games (NSG) on StarHub’s sports channel SuperSports Arena (Starhub TV Channel 201), available free to all StarHub TV customers. ...

MOE releases finding on safety in school sports

Posted by: Red Sports reader Posted date: December 22, 2010 | comment :

The Committee on Safety in School Sports (CSSS) has concluded that the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) sports safety framework is largely sound, and is generally in line with international best practices. The Committee also found the governance framework for sports competitions to be robust, with the appropriate checks and balances to ensure that governance and safety issues are well looked after. ...

Darren Choy and Quah Ting Wen win 2010 Overall Best School Boy and Girl Awards

Posted by: Les Tan Posted date: September 18, 2010 | comment :

Darren Choy and Quah Ting Wen received the Overall Best School Boy and School Girl awards respectively at the 40th National Colours Award Presentation. Darren, from the Singapore Sports School, won the World Byte Championships in 2010 and 2009 while Ting Wen, from Raffles Institution, won five gold medals at the 2009 SEA Games. ...

Singapore’s sports ecosystem in 2010

Posted by: Les Tan Posted date: September 17, 2010 | comment :

While medals naturally make the headlines, a lot of background work goes on to build an ecosystem that breeds that success. The Singapore Sports Council (SSC) is the lead statutory board under the Ministry of Community Developement, Youth and Sports (MCYS) that is focused on building this ecosystem. However, in Singapore's context, the role of the Ministry of Education (MOE) is also crucial. ...

Government pumps in S$2.5m to promote youth sports

Posted by: Red Sports reader Posted date: May 29, 2010 | comment :

Youth sports in Singapore received a huge boost today when the Singapore Youth Sports Development (SYSD) committee unveiled its plans to have up to 26 Satellite Centres for Sports Development set up for selected sports that will be featured at the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games over the next two years. ...

SSC releases final tranche of NSA funding to boost final YOG preparations

Posted by: Red Sports reader Posted date: May 14, 2010 | comment :

The National Sports Associations (NSAs) of the sports that will be featured at the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) will be receiving a monetary boost this week as they enter their final phase of preparations for the Games. ...