Flexible Infrastructure

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14th OECD Japan Seminar Keynote Address Mr
Heng Swee Keat, Minister for Education Singapore
Singapore Education Reform Journey
Integrity, the Foundation . People, our Focus .
Learning, our Passion . Excellence, our Pursuit
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Singapore school system pre-independence Highly
fragmented
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Typical schools built in the 1970s
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Early Days
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• education is a powerful vehicle of social
  mobility that is, families can improve their
  earning power through the education systemwe
  should askWhat proportion of the original
  Primary 1 cohort reached Pre-U 1 and how do
  children from different parental educational
  backgrounds compare?we should get a higher
  percentage of school children to get good passes
  at O and A levels, and where their inability
  to do so is the result of handicaps arising out
  of their home or family environment, we must help
  them to overcome these.
• Dr Goh Keng Swee
• Then Education Minister
• 31 August 1979

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• For the first time, we dared to think of
  returning control of a school to the community
  that founded and supported it, and that school
  excellence is best achieved ground up.
• Mr Wee Heng Tin
• Then Director-General of Education

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Teachers School Leaders are key
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21st Century Skills
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Thank You