2. The new JC, which has been named Pioneer JC, will function at a temporary campus at Science Centre Road (former French-Singapore and German-Singapore Institutes) pending the completion of its new premises at Teck Whye Crescent, which are scheduled to be completed by end 2002. This new JC will have the latest JC building specifications which include additional classrooms, a 600-seater lecture theatre, IT facilities, bigger media resource library, arts and crafts room, career guidance facilities, and staff and administration areas.

3. Mr Kwek Hiok Chuang, currently a Deputy Director in the Educational Technology Division in MOE, is the Principal-designate of Pioneer JC. Mr Kwek is excited about the new JC starting in 2000. "The setting up of Pioneer JC in the year 2000 is timely and significant. This new junior college aims to prepare students for the new era by utilising technology to create, apply and disseminate information. The students of Pioneer JC will be imbued with the qualities of creativity, resourcefulness, enterprise, receptivity to change, as well as a spirit of inquiry. They will be encouraged to be independent and adventurous in their quest for new areas of knowledge, and brave enough to explore new ways to push the limits of learning to the fullest possible extent. Only then will they be ‘Pioneers’ in the true sense of the word," said Mr Kwek.

Upgrading of Existing JCs