Brief introduction of Singapore's education system

Singapore's Ministry of Education is responsible for all schools in the country. There are two main functions of the Ministry of Education: one is decision-making and the other is service. Under the new Ministry of Education, there is no administrative department similar to the domestic bureau level, but an inspector is set up to carry out administrative management. Based on geography, Singapore divides schools into several school clusters, and each school cluster contains various types of primary and secondary schools, including government schools, auxiliary schools (public or private), autonomous schools and autonomous schools (basically private or social). Generally speaking, an inspector manages a school group (about 10 schools). In order to do a good job in management, inspectors often set up their offices in a school. Usually, inspectors keep in touch with the principals of various schools by e-mail, and convey government orders, guide work or assign work tasks through educational networks. Every once in a while, the inspector will go to the schools in our school group for field visits. The inspectors convene a regular meeting of principals once a month, and the principals introduce the work of their respective schools respectively. This kind of party management has many functions, such as mutual exchange and learning, and is very popular with schools.

Singapore has also invested in management education. On the one hand, the Singapore government regards education as a public welfare undertaking, and the government manages education strongly through investment. Both public schools and private schools should carry out education according to the educational policy and curriculum outline formulated by the government, so that education can become an organic part of the whole society and make strategic contributions to economic development. At the same time, guiding and encouraging social forces to fund education and donating money to run schools will be commended.

In Singapore, academic qualifications have become the performance of many successful people? Kind? Many well-known enterprises and rich people regard donating education as a great kindness. On the other hand, the Singapore government also regards education as an industry and takes recruiting foreign students as a new way to develop education. The goal of Singapore's education development is to become the education capital of Asia. Therefore, the school's hardware facilities, whether primary or secondary schools or universities, are designed according to international first-class standards as far as possible. Singapore government? Global campus? The plan aims to promote Singapore's development as the world's leading education service hub, and plans to attract hundreds of thousands of overseas students, enterprise employees and government civil servants to Singapore for education or training in the next 10 year. Local students told me that Singapore's excellent educational resources, bilingual environment (English, mother tongue) and good social atmosphere attract more and more China students to study in Singapore, from primary schools to universities. Especially in recent years, many government officials and teachers from China cities have also chosen to study in Singapore.

Influenced by European and American educational concepts, the school roll management in Singapore is different from that in China. Singapore students are free to choose schools from the beginning of primary school. School selection conditions are more humane. The first is kinship, that is, brothers and sisters of students at school, alumni after graduation, children of school directors, etc. Priority can be given. Secondly, by region, it is like our nearest entrance. Generally, draw a circle around the school. Priority is given to those who are close to the school, and those who are at the same distance will be decided by drawing lots if they need to compete.

Singapore middle school is a two-way choice. Since 1992, Singapore has published the dynamic ranking list of middle schools, ranking them according to the scores of Cambridge general diploma examinations of each school and publishing them. What kind of students a school can recruit and which school students choose to attend, ranking position plays a decisive role. Students said that this school selection system not only brought great pressure to the school, but also stimulated its upward development. Because the government's investment in public schools is basically the same as the conditions for selecting teachers. The school can't run well and can't attract high-quality students. Scholars, parents and society all think that principals and teachers are not working hard enough, and enterprises and individuals do not want to choose such schools.