11 October 2016

The Ministry of Education (MOE) revealed recently that the proportion of students pursuing post-secondary education remains high at 96.7 percent.

This represents a significant improvement over the years. Just a decade ago, the percentage was 90.8.

Additionally, 93.1 percent of students who took the GCE A levels last year achieved at least three H2 passes, with a pass in General Paper or Knowledge and Inquiry.

Jalan Besar GRC MP Denise Phua, who heads the Government Parliamentary Committee for Education, said: “While it is heartening to see that students continue to fare well in their exams, it is also timely to consider and start tracking a more holistic set of indicators of student performance. Otherwise, the signal remains that traditional exam performance is still the only important measure of successful student performance, which is incomplete and non-progressive.”