SINGAPORE'S education system has been very successful at the nuts and bolts - it churns out top students and is ranked highly worldwide, for example - but it is now time for it to evolve. new challenges for the system
1 raising the number of teachers, and getting more with higher qualifications, to develop students
2 fourth university to meet the higher aspirations of students. Their skills are well in demand, the minister said, and a way must be found for them to upgrade these quickly as technological cycles and such shorten.
3 Finally, Dr Ng said, the system needs to impart values, not just grades, to students.
The goal?
'At the end of their journey in our education system, (students) must leave it with a sense of wholeness and preparedness, and a desire to contribute to preserve, maintain and improve themselves and the lives of those around them,' he said.
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