SINGAPORE: To face a tumultuous future with challenges, Singapore’s education system will need to keep evolving as it has done over the last 50 years, said Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam at the first Majulah Lecture organised by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) on Wednesday (Sep 20).
In his speech entitled How Education Shifts Will Make Our Future to 1,500 students, academics, NTU alumni and members of the public, Mr Tharman set out three key challenges that the education system needs to be prepared for.
He pointed out Singapore’s high ranking in international tests such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The test is taken by 15-year-olds in more than 70 countries. Singapore has consistently come up tops in mathematics and science.
“The biggest mistake we would make is think that because we are doing well in the PISA test, or we get a good rating by the Economist Intelligence Unit or anyone else, that therefore we keep things as they are,” Mr Tharman said.
Read more at http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/if-it-ain-t-broke-don-t-fix-it-will-not-cut-it-for-singapore-s-9235202
SINGAPORE: To face a tumultuous future with challenges, Singapore’s education system will need to keep evolving as it has done over the last 50 years, said Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam at the first Majulah Lecture organised by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) on Wednesday (Sep 20).
In his speech entitled How Education Shifts Will Make Our Future to 1,500 students, academics, NTU alumni and members of the public, Mr Tharman set out three key challenges that the education system needs to be prepared for.
He pointed out Singapore’s high ranking in international tests such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The test is taken by 15-year-olds in more than 70 countries. Singapore has consistently come up tops in mathematics and science.
“The biggest mistake we would make is think that because we are doing well in the PISA test, or we get a good rating by the Economist Intelligence Unit or anyone else, that therefore we keep things as they are,” Mr Tharman said.
Read more at http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/if-it-ain-t-broke-don-t-fix-it-will-not-cut-it-for-singapore-s-9235202
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