Singapore education shd move beyond result ??????? YOu sure this man know what he is talking ? Isnt his fast track promotion base on his school resuts all the way from Pri 1 to university?
If the school performance is not base on result , what is the KPIs to raise the pay of the principal and teachers ?
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Singapore's Education Minister Ng Eng Hen said the country's education system must move beyond academic achievements and offer students more individual attention.
Dr Ng was outlining the future education system at the 4th anniversary Public Lecture at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy on Thursday.
In 1980, only 58 per cent of Primary 1 students completed secondary school. Today, the figure is 98.4 per cent.
In a 2003 international study on mathematics and science, students in Singapore aged between 10 and 14 years old came out tops among 49 countries.
Dr Ng said this was due to the good education policy put in place over the years, including the use of English as the medium of instruction, the bilingual policy, streaming, good teachers, curriculum and pedagogy.
But going forward, there will be greater expectations. Dr Ng noted that parents today are better educated and have more financial resources, so he said there must be more teachers, so students get more individual attention.
The teachers must also have higher qualifications. And to do that, schools must also have more autonomy.
"We need to re-balance the education system so that we can maintain the academic rigour,... yet at the same time create space and structure... for the school to (achieve) these other aspects and impart values," said Dr Ng.
As for graduates of the Institute of Technical Education and Polytechnics, apart from creating a 4th publicly-funded university, the Ministry of Education will explore ways to help them upgrade during their careers.
However, some parents were concerned that schools now may be chasing key performance indicators at the expense of long-term goals.
"One of the things I hope won't happen is that those ideas, after implementation, will not be lost, because sometimes when it goes down the next level, it may become another set of goals, another set of numbers," said Angeline Soo, a mother of two children.
Dr Ng emphasised that while Singapore's first class education system is respected internationally, it can always do better. And that means a delicate balance between continuing with what has worked well and, at the same time, not closing the doors on new innovations. - CNA /ls
If the school performance is not base on result , what is the KPIs to raise the pay of the principal and teachers ?
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Singapore's Education Minister Ng Eng Hen said the country's education system must move beyond academic achievements and offer students more individual attention.
Dr Ng was outlining the future education system at the 4th anniversary Public Lecture at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy on Thursday.
In 1980, only 58 per cent of Primary 1 students completed secondary school. Today, the figure is 98.4 per cent.
In a 2003 international study on mathematics and science, students in Singapore aged between 10 and 14 years old came out tops among 49 countries.
Dr Ng said this was due to the good education policy put in place over the years, including the use of English as the medium of instruction, the bilingual policy, streaming, good teachers, curriculum and pedagogy.
But going forward, there will be greater expectations. Dr Ng noted that parents today are better educated and have more financial resources, so he said there must be more teachers, so students get more individual attention.
The teachers must also have higher qualifications. And to do that, schools must also have more autonomy.
"We need to re-balance the education system so that we can maintain the academic rigour,... yet at the same time create space and structure... for the school to (achieve) these other aspects and impart values," said Dr Ng.
As for graduates of the Institute of Technical Education and Polytechnics, apart from creating a 4th publicly-funded university, the Ministry of Education will explore ways to help them upgrade during their careers.
However, some parents were concerned that schools now may be chasing key performance indicators at the expense of long-term goals.
"One of the things I hope won't happen is that those ideas, after implementation, will not be lost, because sometimes when it goes down the next level, it may become another set of goals, another set of numbers," said Angeline Soo, a mother of two children.
Dr Ng emphasised that while Singapore's first class education system is respected internationally, it can always do better. And that means a delicate balance between continuing with what has worked well and, at the same time, not closing the doors on new innovations. - CNA /ls
