(69.3) 21.2 The IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) was piloted in 1996 in 30 primary schools on different continents and the first PYP school was authorised in 1997, with 87 authorised schools in 43 countries within five years. Singapore was one of only two countries in ASEAN that was not a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which mandates that persons with disabilities should be guaranteed the right to inclusive education. Instead in Singapore "any child who is unable to attend any national primary school due to any physical or intellectual disability" is exempted from compulsory education and there are no public schools for such children. Instead they may attend special education schools built largely by the Ministry of Education and run by voluntary welfare organisations These schools receive more than 80% of their funding from the Ministry of Education but have long waiting lists according to Member of Parliament Sylvia Lim the Singapore government has asserted that only "a very small number of children do not attend school each year" giving a figure of 8 students as compared to a primary school intake of roughly 43000 and that requiring all special needs children to attend school would "impose unduly harsh requirements on their parents." This practice has been described as a "form of discrimination" by Sylvia Lim the Convention was ratified in July 2013 and made effective on 18 August the same year, Maps based on scientific principles had been made since the time of Eratosthenes in the 3rd century BC but Ptolemy improved map projections It is known from a speech by Eumenius that a world map an orbis pictus doubtless based on the Geography was on display in a school in Augustodunum Gaul in the third century in the 15th century Ptolemy's Geography began to be printed with engraved maps; the earliest printed edition with engraved maps was produced in Bologna in 1477 followed quickly by a Roman edition in 1478 (Campbell 1987) An edition printed at Ulm in 1482 including woodcut maps was the first one printed north of the Alps The maps look distorted when compared to modern maps because Ptolemy's data were inaccurate One reason is that Ptolemy estimated the size of the Earth as too small: while Eratosthenes found 700 stadia for a great circle degree on the globe Ptolemy uses 500 stadia in the Geography It is highly probable that these were the same stadion since Ptolemy switched from the former scale to the latter between the Syntaxis and the Geography and severely readjusted longitude degrees accordingly See also Ancient Greek units of measurement and History of geodesy, War crimes Main article: Singapore in the Straits Settlements Singapore business directory. 2012 US$289.941 6.1 Mathematics Tower Transit Singapore.
. 10 Madrasahs Singapore modern city-state and island country, PISA stands in a tradition of international school studies undertaken since the late 1950s by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Much of PISA's methodology follows the example of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS started in 1995) which in turn was much influenced by the U.S National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) The reading component of PISA is inspired by the IEA's Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)! ! .
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