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In 1987 the Ministry of Education set up the first institute, Outram Institute, to offer three-year pre-university courses on a centralised basis. Outram Institute prepared students for the GCE 'A' Level Examinations. Initially, it concentrated on commerce subjects and had only the commerce stream. The arts stream was later introduced to the ...
Following the government's plans to rejuvenate Singapore's art space, Lasalle began receiving financial support from the Ministry of Education.At Lasalle's 10th anniversary celebration in 1995, then-Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong remarked that Lasalle played an important role in developing artists and their audience in Singapore, and announced that the Singapore government would be ...
The oldest university in Singapore is the National University of Singapore, which was established in its current form in 1980, but has a history in tertiary education dating back to 1905. [1] The university along with the Nanyang Technological University are research intensive and rank the highest in global university ranking publications.
NAFA was founded in a two-storey Geylang shophouse in 1938 by Lim Hak Tai, with its first class made up of 14 students. [13]In March 2021, Minister for Education Lawrence Wong announced that Singapore's first arts university will be established in an alliance between the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and LASALLE College of the Arts. [14]
In a 2018 survey conducted by Committee for Private Education on employment outcomes, PSB Academy graduates achieved a 45.3% full-time employment rate, in comparison with 78.4% for their peers from three publicly-funded universities, National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Singapore Management ...
The ACCA Report recommended that the Ministry of Education could consider establishing a Faculty of Art and Design and a School of Performing Arts in the proposed new university. In the late 1990s to early 2000s, the notion of "Creative Singapore" was extolled to unlock the potential of the arts and to cultivate a global city for the arts. [ 4 ]
Millennia Institute (MI) is a centralised institute in Singapore offering three-year pre-university education. It is currently the only pre-university centre to offer the Commerce stream apart from the traditional arts and science streams offered by pre-university institutions. [1] [2]
Junior colleges (JC) are pre-university institutions in Singapore that offer two-year pre-university courses that leads to either the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level (A-Level) or the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB - offered by only Anglo-Chinese School, School of the Arts, Singapore Sports School, and St. Joseph’s Institution). [1]