1.The Ministry of Education (MOE) will be revising the school fees for students who are Singapore permanent residents (PR) and international students (IS) in Government and Government-aided schools from January 2017 to further differentiate fees by citizenship. This revision is part of MOE’s periodic review of school fees. 2.School fees will increase by $20 to [...]
Seven new subjects, ranging from robotics to sports science, are set to become part of the O- and N-level tracks to give students a chance for more hands-on learning. These subjects, which will be rolled out over the next two years, will be available in more than 60 secondary schools. O-level electronics and computing will [...]
The proportion of students pursuing post-secondary education remains high, the Ministry of Education (MOE) revealed yesterday in its annual set of data. About 96.7 per cent of the Primary 1 cohort in 2005 progressed to post-secondary education last year, a slight drop from 96.9 per cent in 2014. Still, it is a significant jump from [...]
Acting Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) Ong Ye Kung revealed that 3,680 secondary school students have been offered a conditional place in a polytechnic even before they take the O levels next month on Facebook. Some 3,680 secondary school students have been offered a conditional place in a polytechnic even before they take [...]
Students entering the National University of Singapore's (NUS) faculty of arts and social sciences this year will go through a revised curriculum that will give them more leeway to customise their undergraduate education. The changes aim to offer more choice to the students beyond their majors and equip them with core writing skills, said Professor [...]
SINGAPORE: The registration of children for admission to Primary One (P1) classes next year will start on Jun 30 and end on Aug 26, the Ministry of Education said on Thursday (Jun 16). Children born between Jan 2, 2010, and Jan 1, 2011, (both dates inclusive) have to be registered at this year’s P1 Registration [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
