HER daughter's love for pre-school while living in Britain sparked Mrs Ng Gim Choo's interest in education and teaching.

'She would wear her school uniform on weekends and ask if we could go to school,' she recalled.

After just one trip to her then four-year-old's school in Kensington, London, Mrs Ng believed she could help reshape pre-school learning in Singapore.

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