Monthly Archives: March 2016

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Primary 1 registration: Child must live at declared address for at least 30 months from July 2, 2015

  A NEW rule requiring children to live for at least 21/2 years at the addresses they used to apply for primary school has been introduced, with parents largely supportive of the change. Beginning this year, those who gain priority admission to schools based on distance need to live at the address for at least [...]

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The 2016 AEIS will be conducted on 21, 22 and 23 Sep 2016. Registration opens on 5 Jul 2016

WHAT IS AEIS The Admissions Exercise for International Students (AEIS) is a centralised admissions exercise conducted by MOE around September or October each year for international students who wish to join our mainstream primary and secondary schools in January of the following year. AEIS consists of a centralised test on English and Mathematics that will [...]

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More expats find it tough to get kids into local schools

Permanent residents (PRs) Sumalatha Videm and her husband Videm Nagender, who works in the IT sector here, have been living in Singapore with their daughter Videm Sree Vainavi for nearly seven years. Now the family, whose income is about $6,000 each month, is thinking of leaving as the $1,100 they pay a month for Videm, [...]

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2016 THE Uni Rankings: Singapore Universities Top In Asia

The National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University have come out tops in this year’s Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2016. Just days after the Quacquarelli Symonds University Rankings: Asia were released, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have once again topped an international university rankings table. NUS [...]

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