VIDEO: Ong Ye Kung speaks in Parliament about why it's time to phase out the streaming system in secondary schools
SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Education will implement full subject-based banding in secondary schools by 2024, Minister for Education Ong Ye Kung announced on Tuesday . This will replace the existing system of streaming students into the Express, Normal or Normal streams based on their PSLE results.
“More importantly, entering a stream that is considered ‘lower’ can carry a certain stigma or be self-limiting,” he added. “Students can develop a mindset where they tell themselves, ‘I am only a Normal stream student, so this is as good as I can be.’ It becomes self-fulfilling.”According to MOE, about 60 per cent of Secondary 1 students in the Normal stream, and 40 per cent of students in the Normal stream took subjects at a higher level.
Students entering Secondary 1 in 2024 – corresponding to this year’s Primary 2 cohort - will be the first full batch of students to go through the new system. Full SBB will allow lower secondary school students to study more subjects at a higher level – not just English, Mother Tongue Language, Maths and Science, but also others, such as Geography, History, and Literature, Mr Ong said.
Mr Ong said that this will reflect the reality of full SBB as a more flexible, single course. Singapore and Cambridge, he said, will co-brand this new certificate, as both are “strong international brand names in education”, which will “enhance the recognition and value of the certificate.”
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