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On 4 March 2008, the establishment of SST was announced in the 11th Parliament of Singapore, by Minister for Education Tharman Shanmugaratnam. [4] [5] As part of setting up the school, SST partnered with Nanyang Technological University, IBM, and Creative Technology to provide learning opportunities and internship programmes for students.
On 28 September 1946, about 200 teachers attended a meeting under the auspices of Singapore Teachers' Association (STA). A key agenda of the meeting was a motion to have a union of their own, as STA had no legal status to negotiate better terms for teachers. The motion was moved by P V Sharma and seconded by Yapp Thean Chye.
19th Assembly of Delegates of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession, Sydney Town Hall, August 1970 The federation was established in 1952, with the merger of the International Federation of Secondary Teachers (FIPESO), the International Federation of Teachers' Associations (IFTA), and the World Organisation of the Teaching Profession (WOTP), the three main ...
Below is a list of schools offering a two or three-year pre-university education in Singapore, along with the special programmes offered by the schools.The year of establishment in this article reflects the year in which the pre-university programme is implemented, particularly for the Integrated Programme High Schools.
The Government of Singapore invests heavily in education to equip citizens with the necessary knowledge and skills to compete in the global marketplace. [2] Singapore currently spends around a fifth of its national budget on education. [3] To boost its economic standing, the Government of Singapore created a mandate that most Singaporeans learn ...
Most secondary schools in Singapore offer a four-year Express course (Special course for Special Assistance Plan schools) or a five-year course leading to the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level. [1] Some schools offer the six-year Integrated Programme, which lead to the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level or International Baccalaureate ...
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Education has always represented an area of focus for Singapore since its independence in 1965. Its emphasis on education partly reflects Singapore's virtual lack of natural resources and Singapore's need to develop its human resource and manpower capability in its continuing quest to build a knowledge-based economy.