SINGAPORE - In 1978, then Deputy Prime Minister Goh Keng Swee led a team to overhaul education.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
As part of the team's report recommendations, streaming was introduced in Singapore from the 1980s to sort students into different tracks according to their abilities. It marked a shift away from a one-size-fits-all approach to learning in the early years of independence in the 1960s and 1970s.Here's a look at how streaming has evolved over the years.
1980s: Pupils are streamed at the end of Primary 3, into either the normal bilingual, extended bilingual or monolingual courses. These tracks are later replaced by EM1, EM2 and EM3 streams.1994: The Normal course is split into Normal and Normal streams. The N track allows the 15 per cent to 20 per cent of the cohort who had previously dropped out of formal education after primary school to progress to secondary school and have 10 years of schooling.
1995: Express students could take higher mother tongue language as a subject; Special stream was merged with Express 2002: Upper secondary students are allowed to take higher-level subjects if they are deemed suitable i.e. a Normal student can take O-level subject2008: EM3 system is scrapped. Subject-based banding is introduced in primary schools, through which schools provide a differentiated curriculum for Primary 5. Students take a combination of subjects at two different difficulty levels of either Standard or Foundation level.
2014: Subject-based banding is extended to lower secondary students; pilot scheme starts in 12 schools. Under the scheme, students from the N and N streams who score at least an A for English, Mathematics, Science or mother tongue at the PSLE can study the corresponding subjects at the Express level.2020-2023: Full subject-based banding to be offered in 25 pilot schools where students will be able to study the humanities subjects at a higher level from Sec 2.
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