Childcare centres and kindergartens, which are regulated under different laws, will be held to higher and more consistent standards in a move to improve their quality. By early 2019, both types of pre-schools will have to get licences that are renewed regularly. Currently, kindergartens are registered through a one-off process. A new law passed in [...]
Recognising the value of internships, the National University of Singapore is restructuring its curriculum to allow some of its students to go on work attachments for as long as 18 months, starting from the new academic year in August. For a start, students from three computing courses - information security, business analytics and data science [...]
Of the 12,538 students who took last year's GCE A-level examination, 92.6 per cent achieved at least three H2 passes, with a pass in General Paper (GP) or Knowledge and Inquiry (KI). This is a slight dip compared to last year's cohort, 93.1 per cent of which achieved at least three H2 passes and a [...]
Despite the slowdown in the economy, fresh graduates from three Singapore universities were able to keep their heads above water last year. Their starting pay hit a new high of $3,360 a month, and slightly more of them landed a job within six months of finishing their final examinations. A lower proportion, however, had full-time [...]
At a time when there are concerns over the employability of private school students, Singapore's largest private school is pulling out all the stops to boost the job prospects of its students. Singapore Institute of Management's private school arm had 129 employers take part in its career fair held on Friday - almost double the [...]
The 2016 GCE A-level examination results will be released next Friday (Feb 24).Candidates from schools may collect their result slips from their respective schools on that day, from 2.30pm onwards, the Ministry of Education said in a press release on Friday (Feb 17). Private candidates will be notified of their results by post, with the [...]
For two millennials, it is a case of one internship not enough. Mr Leonard Neo, 25, a final-year student at the Singapore Management University, believes serving multiple internships has taught him to be flexible in a way a single internship cannot. "My choice to do multiple internships stemmed from the desire to take up as [...]
A record 25private schools deregistered last year with the Committee for Private Education (CPE), which regulates the industry. There are 293 registered private schools currently - the lowest in recent years - and more are expected to exit the industry this year, as the CPE prepares to enforce new and stricter rules on the private [...]
A record number of private schools shut down last year, continuing the shakedown in a sector that once headlined Singapore's ambition to be an education hub. Even more are expected to exit the scene this year, as the authorities prepare to enforce new and stricter rules. Last year, 25 private schools deregistered with the Committee [...]
The National University of Singapore (NUS) was named the world's fourth most international university by Times Higher Education on Wednesday (Feb 1), edging out prominent universities from Britain and the United States with its diverse crop of students and researchers. It ranked fourth on a list of 150 international universities, ahead of universities like Oxford, [...]
