More than 100 students travel from S'pore to JB daily

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At Malaysia'a new education hub, Iskandar Educity, more than 100 children from Singapore travel to Johor daily to go to school.

According to the Straits Times, these students include Singaporeans as well as children of expatriates based in Singapore.

To ease the children's journey to and from school everyday, some parents have even moved to Johor and they instead commute to Singapore for work.

The education centre is situated in the Nusajaya township, just across the Second Link in Tuas.

It comprises of a cluster of schools of various levels, from pre-school to university.

Three Singapore operators - the Management Development Institute of Singapore, Raffles University Iskandar and Raffles American School, are located there.

Others schools include the University of Southampton, Newcastle Univerity Medicine Malaysia and the Netherlands Maritime Institute of Technology.

Opened two weeks ago, Malborough College Malaysia is a branch of Britain's well-known Malborough College.

Among its prestigious alumni is the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton.

Half of its 350 students aged between four and 15 commutes daily from Singapore, said Principal Robert Prick.

Declining to give the breakdown, he however mentioned that expatriates outnumbered Singaporeans.

At 7am on school mornings, the children are picked up from their homes by a fleet of buses that will commute to Malaysia via the Second Link.

The journey takes about 40-50 minutes on an average day and over an hour on the days traffic is heavy.

Using a Malaysian Automated Clearance System, the children are fast-tracked across the border without having to get off the buses.

Ms Joanna Ackerly, a British expatriate, is an event manager at the college and her three children aged six, eight and 10 attend school there, reported The Straits Times.

She drives from their home in central Singapore to Johor and back every day.

Marlborough's small class size of 18 pupils, academic reputation and holistic philosophy as welll as its sprawling campus were some of the qualities that made Ms Ackerly send her children there.