Episode 3: Maids, Tutors, Typical Singaporean Parent

MAIDS - They look after our young and our elderly. They keep our homes clean and cook our meals and have freed Singapore women to enter the workforce. Singaporean maids have evolved from the amahs to the Filipina. And their numbers have grown over the years as the typical Singaporean family one sees in the malls or restaurant these days invariably include a maid in tow.

TUITION TEACHER - Over the past 40 years one typically Singaporean archetype has emerged - the tuition teacher. Whether students out for some pocket money or retired teacher, the tuition teacher has become a feature of Singaporean life and he exists to feed a very Singaporean need - parental obsession with grades.

THE SINGAPORE PARENT AND THE EDUCATION SYSTEM - There was a time when kindergarten were little more than play schools and kids didn't sit for their first exam till they were in Primary 3. The changing face of Singapore schools and Singapore education is examined through the eyes of a character that has emerged over the last 40 years - the extremely concerned Singaporean parent.

by MediaCorp