Post-Graduate Early Childhood Educators

Early childhood educators will be able to pursue post-graduate studies under Early Childhood Development Agency's scholarship programme ("More support for early childhood educators to pursue studies", The Straits Times, 31 Oct 2025).

Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Social and Family Development said "[W]e hope that an ECE (Early Childhood Education) scholarship will attract and nurture more passionate individuals ... who are committed to making a lasting impact in the early childhood sector."

Does a person really need a Master of Education or similar post-graduate qualification to be a better or more effective early childhood educator?

Or is it just another example of unnecessary paper chase?