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Funding cuts for top independent schools in Singapore
MOE also tells schools to moderate fund-raising for campus upgrading
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Six top independent schools in Singapore, including Hwa Chong Institution, have had their funding cut and, along with other mission schools, have been told to moderate fund-raising activities for campus upgrading. -- ST FILE PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN

 

By Sandra Davie Senior Education Correspondent

Six top independent schools in Singapore have had their funding cut and, along with other mission schools, have been told to moderate fund-raising activities for campus upgrading.

In addition, they will have to comply with a new directive urging all schools with air-conditioned classrooms to install fans and use air-conditioning only when necessary.

The six schools rank among the top in the Singapore education scene, comprising the Raffles secondary schools and its junior college, Hwa Chong Institution, Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) and NUS High School of Mathematics and Science.

They all run both the Integrated Programme (IP) and Gifted Education Programme (GEP). The IP provides a seamless secondary and junior college education with students bypassing the O levels. The GEP caters to students in the top 1 to 2 per cent of their cohort.

 

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Yalor. They can always get funding from elsewhere.

 

IMO if they are called "independent schools" why are they still getting funding from the gahment?

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TOP independent school still tap on govt funding?

like that jin ho jiak la ... being INDEPENDENT means they want to get out from govt attachment right ...

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TOP independent school still tap on govt funding?

like that jin ho jiak la ... being INDEPENDENT means they want to get out from govt attachment right ...

 

It's a payment for each students accross the board in either gov or indep schools. I think it was called 'student grant' for use in activities related to students. From Primary to JC ... [sly]

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Best of both worlds... smart! [scholar] No wonder they produce top talents for our gahmen who knows how to suck the people dry -_- They started young <_<

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Wonderful. This will inevitably lead to a greater intake of boarding school students whose parents are *very* rich Indonesians, to the detriment of bright young Singaporeans. This has already been the trend for the last decade or so.

 

BTW, the really rich Indons make the really rich Singaporeans look like poor cousins in contrast.

 

And if the gahmen really wanted to make the school system equitable, they should scrap the stupid SAP system. As long as they only offer CL2, they are NOT racially equitable. [rolleyes]

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Supercharged

This schools are super rich.

 

What is cut of 8% to this school...... PEANUTS..... [grin]

yeah man

 

the student's monthly pocket allowance is more than an average man's monthly salary....

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It's a payment for each students accross the board in either gov or indep schools. I think it was called 'student grant' for use in activities related to students. From Primary to JC ... [sly]

very funny, every year during LNY, my son's primary school will ask for donation via fund raising card.

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very funny, every year during LNY, my son's primary school will ask for donation via fund raising card.

 

Fund raising is for 'other' activities of which MOE do not subsidise that activities. So school raise fund for it.

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Wonderful. This will inevitably lead to a greater intake of boarding school students whose parents are *very* rich Indonesians, to the detriment of bright young Singaporeans. This has already been the trend for the last decade or so.

 

BTW, the really rich Indons make the really rich Singaporeans look like poor cousins in contrast.

 

And if the gahmen really wanted to make the school system equitable, they should scrap the stupid SAP system. As long as they only offer CL2, they are NOT racially equitable. [rolleyes]

 

 

rich but need to be smart or not, heard these school need 250 to get in! :huh:

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rich but need to be smart or not, heard these school need 250 to get in! :huh:

They can say you need 250 to get in: PSLE aggregate or parent's donation in thousands of dollars, whichever is higher. [lipsrsealed]

 

BTW, 250 is really on the low side for some of these schools - at least for Raffles, which I'm familiar with, since it's my alma mater.

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They can say you need 250 to get in: PSLE aggregate or parent's donation in thousands of dollars, whichever is higher. [lipsrsealed]

 

BTW, 250 is really on the low side for some of these schools - at least for Raffles, which I'm familiar with, since it's my alma mater.

 

 

minimum to qualify for IP is 250, but with the limited seat, of course those top ones will only accept those above 270.

 

so to match the minimum, donation need to be minimum $250K?

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minimum to qualify for IP is 250, but with the limited seat, of course those top ones will only accept those above 270.

 

so to match the minimum, donation need to be minimum $250K?

 

270 sounds more like it.

 

About the donation/endowment thing: why not? Already, Certain Schools that shall remain nameless have a bad rep for this, deserved or not.

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