Primary Education — The Way Forward
Read the latest updates on the PERI Committee’s recommendations.
The Ministry of Education (MOE) has accepted the recommendations of the PERI Committee in April 2009. The proposed changes to primary education seek to ensure that our young are equipped not just with content knowledge, but also with the necessary skills and values to thrive in a fast-changing and globalised future. They build on the strengths of our current system, and seek to raise primary education to a new level.
The desired outcomes for every student are:
- a confident person who has a strong sense of right and wrong, is adaptable and resilient, knows himself, is discerning in judgment, thinks independently and critically, and communicates effectively;
- a self-directed learner who takes responsibility for his own learning, who questions, reflects and perseveres in the pursuit of learning;
- an active contributor who is able to work effectively in teams, exercises initiative, takes calculated risks, is innovative and strives for excellence; and,
- a concerned citizen who is rooted to Singapore, has a strong civic consciousness, is informed, and takes an active role in bettering the lives of others around him.
MOE has been implementing the changes to primary education progressively over the next few years as many of the recommendations require systematic implementation over the longer term. In this endeavour, MOE and schools will require the strong support of various stakeholders, especially parents, so that our young can achieve the full benefits of a balanced and holistic primary education.