[iCONADA Research Team]The Dopamine Game Under Digital Anxiety: Singapore’s “Paid-to-Read” National Social Experiment



In an age when short-form videos are sweeping across the globe like a tidal wave and algorithms are becoming increasingly sophisticated at capturing our attention, human attention itself has become a scarce resource fiercely contested by technology giants. Confronted with this collective crisis of attention,…

China’s higher education sector is undergoing a profound structural and institutional transformation.

In recent years, the authorities have introduced a series of top-level policy measures aimed at promoting the differentiated development of universities, greater institutional specialisation, dynamic adjustment of academic programmes and more targeted allocation of resources.

This is more than a matter of fine-tuning academic disciplines. It represents a systematic…

In Malaysian secondary education, Higher-Order Thinking Skills are officially known as KBAT (Kemahiran Berfikir Aras Tinggi). Driven by the Malaysia Education Blueprint (PPPM) 2013–2025, the Ministry of Education integrated HOTS/KBAT across the secondary school ecosystem to shift students away from rote memorization toward international benchmark standards.…