Project of Singapore Tour
Education
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Tse Sze Wun, Sarah (2220)
Yip Chun Lam, Matthew (2140)
Education stage
Primary Education
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Singapore
197 primary schools in
Singapore.
Giving students a good
command of English, the mother
tongue and Mathematics.
students sit for the Primary
School Leaving Examination
(PSLE) in order to pick
secondary school.
Secondary Education
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147 secondary schools in
Singapore.
attending four or five years of
secondary education under the
Special, Express or Normal
Course.
There are 2 different levels of
examination in the forth & fifth
years respectively.
Singapore
Junior Colleges
and PreUniversities
Singapore
14 Junior Colleges
and 2 PreUniversities.
 At the end of the preuniversity course,
students sit for the
GCE 'A' Level
examination.
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Kindergarten
(Pre-primary Services)
Provision of education and
care to children before 6
years old.
 Provide children with a
relaxing and pleasurable
learning environment.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Primary & Secondary education
9 years' free education to all children,
 enhance biliterate and trilingual abilities in
language;
 improve learning and teaching environment;
 help newly arrived children integrate into
local school,
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Hong Kong
Special Education
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Provide children having special needs with
education to help them develop their potential in
the community.
In the 2003/04 school year, there are 785
primary schools, 501 secondary schools
and 62 special schools.
Singapore
Polytechnics
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There are 5 Polytechnics in
Singapore：
Nanyang Polytechnic (南洋理工學院),
 Ngee Ann Polytechnic (義安理工學院),
 Republic Polytechnic,
 Singapore Polytechnic (新加坡理工學
院),
 and Temasek Polytechnic (淡馬錫理工
學院),
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Singapore
Institute of Technical Education
(ITE)
Established to provide excellent postsecondary technical education.
 Graduates are equipped with the technical
knowledge and skills
 ITE is also the national authority for the
certification of skills.
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Singapore
Special Education Program
Because they want to tap the talent of
students, Singapore organizes a special
education program, such as ,
special music education program,
art design education program,
and special language education program.
Tertiary Education
 National University of
Singapore (NUS)
 set up in 1905
 Nanyang Technological
University (NTU)
 set up in 1981
 Singapore Management
University (SMU)
 a government-funded privately
managed university
 a private school which open enrollment
in July of 2000.
Singapore
Hong Kong
Skills Opportunity School
Extend the development and post-school
opportunities of students with severe
learning difficulties.
 Target: students with severe learning
difficulties.
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Hong Kong
Tertiary Education
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14500 first-year first-degree places every year.
11 degree-awarding institutions……
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the Chinese University of Hong Kong
the University of Hong Kong
the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Baptist University
Lingnan University
the Hong Kong Institute of Education, a teacher training institute
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Open University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Shue Yan College
Caritas Francis Hsu College
Singapore
Tuition Fee
Different kind of course ,
grade and school has
different tuition fee .
Beside tuition fee, some
school will collect other
fee (such as fee of
student union , P.E.
facilities, etc).
 That’s like HK.
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Grant-in-aid
Singapore
Singapore government provides
subsidize education expenses for
foreign students.
 When those foreign students
finished the study courses, he/she
needs to work for three years in
Singapore.
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Academic Languages
Singapore:
English for most of the
subjects
Hong Kong:
using mother-tongue ~
Chinese, instead of using
English, but some schools
are still using English
teaching.
Academic Year
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Singapore
Each academic year
divided into 4
terms, each hold
for 10 weeks.
Academic years
begin on 2nd
January and end at
the middle-November.
There are 12 weeks
of school holidays
each year, excluded
public holidays.
Hong Kong
Academic years begin on 1st
September and end at the midJuly.
The total number of school days
should not be less than :
190 days for whole-day
schools.
209 days for bisessional
primary schools.
190 days for junior
secondary.
Accommodation
 Students
Singapore
can choose staying in a
students hostel or boarding school.
 International students may join the
plan of host family. It is a
efficient way for foreign students
to join the life in Singapore
directly.
Websites
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Singapore education http://www.aurorama.com/singaporeedu/broad_edu_prog.html
Report for the changing of academic languages –
http://www.nioerar.edu.tw/basis3/25/gz13.htm
Report on Singapore education system –
http://www.edu-fair.com/reports/SingaporeEduSystem_01.html
Government website of Singapore education http://www.singaporeedu.gov.sg/htm/index.htm
Singapore search website
http://www.sgbox.com
Information of Singapore education system –
http://www.migration.com.hk/English/Education.htm#2
Thanks for your attentions!