By Maria Almenoar & Goh Yi Han

KINDERGARTENS run by Singapore's largest kindergarten operator have brought in an external consultant to keep their enrolment numbers up.

Twenty such centres of the PAP Community Foundation (PCF) in Jurong and Bukit Timah will now be managed by NTUC First Campus, which itself runs 50 preschools.

NTUC has overhauled the curriculum, added more training hours for teachers and renovated the centres. The cost was paid for by fund-raising.

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