While the Secondary 1 posting exercise is meant for pupils from national primary schools, private candidates can also gain admission to mainstream secondary schools. The Ministry of Education (MOE) takes into account pupils' school choices, Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) results and the available places in schools when facilitating the posting, said Dr Faishal Ibrahim, [...]
The Ministry of Education's (MOE) mantra is that every school is a good school. With the move to extend the Compulsory Education Act to children with moderate to severe special needs, MOE has reaffirmed that every child matters too. The ministry announced last week that, starting with the Primary 1 cohort in 2019, these special [...]
In a move that fully includes special needs children in the education system, those with moderate to severe conditions will need to attend publicly-funded schools from 2019, just like all other children in Singapore. The move to extend the Compulsory Education (CE) Act will take effect from the Primary 1 cohort just over two years [...]
SINGAPORE (THE NEW PAPER)- Teen suicides so concerned them that they made a film addressing the issue and are releasing it just before the PSLE results are announced later this month. Mr Jerome Lau, 39, and Mr Stanley Yap, 42, the owners of Splash Productions, started the company initiative. The actors and others involved donated their [...]
SINGAPORE - The National University of Singapore's board of trustees will get a new chairman next year. Mr Wong Ngit Liong, 75, who has held the post the past 12 years will step down on Dec 31 and will be be succeeded by NUS alumnus Mr Hsieh Fu Hua, 66, the NUS said in a [...]
The two schools in an O-level exam mix-up have admitted they could have done more to ensure their students took the correct mathematics paper. They also urged the affected students to refocus on their remaining exam papers. Still, some parents whose kids were affected by the mix-up last week are unhappy that their children's preliminary [...]
More than 70 students from two schools took the wrong O-level mathematics paper last Thursday, after a mix-up in the subject codes during registration. A total of 73 Secondary 5 students - 24 from Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School (AISS) and 49 from Woodgrove Secondary School - were affected. They had taken the O-level maths Paper [...]
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has been ranked the world's best young university for a third straight year. In Quacquarelli Symonds' (QS) latest rankings of the world's top 50 universities established less than 50 years ago, NTU retained its No. 1 spot followed by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Korea Advanced Institute [...]
Singapore schools are primarily for Singaporean children, and some costs have to be recovered from non-Singaporean students to be "fair" to taxpayers, said Acting Education Minister (Schools) Ng Chee Meng yesterday at a dialogue. He was commenting on fee hikes, which were announced last week, for non-Singaporean students in local schools. The increases, [...]
SINGAPORE - The privately-run SIM University (UniSIM) will become Singapore's sixth autonomous university and be fully funded by the Government, if a proposal by the Education Ministry (MOE) is given the green light. Acting Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) Ong Ye Kung who revealed this at UniSIM's convocation on Wednesday (Oct 12) morning, [...]
