SINGAPORE — The new school-based high-ability programmes are not designed to help students perform better in mainstream examinations, Minister for Education Chan Chun Sing said on Tuesday (Sept 10).
SINGAPORE — The new school-based high-ability programmes are not designed to help students perform better in mainstream examinations, Minister for Education Chan Chun Sing said on Tuesday .SINGAPORE — The new school-based high-ability programmes are not designed to help students perform better in mainstream examinations, Minister for Education Chan Chun Sing said on Tuesday .
As part of the revamp announced by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in his maiden National Day Rally speech in August, school-based programmes for high-ability learners will be expanded to about 10 per cent of the primary school cohort. Students can also join the high-ability programmes at any time in their upper primary years, instead of only through selection tests in Primary 3.
Responding to a supplementary question from Ms Denise Phua about whether the labels for programmes or higher-ability students can be dropped entirely, Mr Chan said it would not be possible to run the classes on the basis of interest without an assessment of the students’ abilities. Mr Louis Chua highlighted that the smaller class sizes of the GEP was a key feature, and asked whether those involved in the high-ability programmes would similarly see smaller class sizes.
“We can’t change the average very much because in every society, there are only so many quality teachers that we can recruit. If we expand the numbers, we don’t want to compromise the quality,” said the education minister.
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