In an innovative move to promote education among children from low-income families, the Singapore Ministry of Education has devised a scheme to pay pre-school children 0 for each year that the child attends a non-profit kindergarten listed under the scheme. In order to maintain the quality of these non-profit kindergartens the government is investing in training the kindergarten teachers. It aims that three quarters of the teachers in the listed kindergarten schools will be fully trained teachers thereby rising the stansards of pre-school education offered in the listed kindergartens. This scheme wa introduced in response to the concern of many that children, particularly those from low-income families, miss out on the benefits of pre-school education because of the high costs involved. This could well be one measure towards ensuring that atleast some of those many children get access to much required pre-school education.[Straits Times]