Primary School Education System .
An ambitious overhaul is being planned for primary education, to nurture pupils who love learning, are exposed to a wide variety of experiences and equipped with the skills to tackle life's challenges.
Changes recommended by a panel tasked to review the system include doing away with semestral assessments for Primary 1 and 2 pupils.
At a press conference last Friday to release the Primary Education Review preliminary report, Senior Minister of State for Education Grace Fu laid out her committee's key recommendations, which will cost about $4.5 billion to implement over 10 years. I quote:
'We believe that by giving children the opportunity to be exposed to learn new skills, it will shape their character. They will become more confident and resilient, and better learners at the end of the education system.'
How could this affect us in the near future? It would mean that we would have artistic yet smart, students coming out of primary school, and entering better secondary schools. This in turn will increase the demands of the "higher class" secondary school such as Victoria School, to take in smarter and smarter students. It will come a point whereby the school will be forced to deny hundreds of students who are trying to apply, and yet were rejected. Does this mean a younger, smarter population? You can decide for yourself!
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