SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Education (MOE) does not have a preference between single-sex or co-ed schools, said Education Minister Chan Chun Sing on Tuesday (Feb 28), but that in general, new schools opened by MOE are co-ed because such schools are able to meet the schooling needs for both s
SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Education does not have a preference between single-sex or co-ed schools, said Education Minister Chan Chun Sing on Tuesday , but that in general, new schools opened by MOE are co-ed"In general, all our new schools that MOE opens are co-ed, as is the case of schools opening in recent years in Punggol, and those slated to be opened in Tengah," said Mr Chan.
about the new site's"faraway" location, as well as the inclusion of girls in the school's future cohorts.In Parliament on Tuesday, Yio Chu Kang Single Member Constituency Member of Parliament Yip Hong Weng asked a question on whether MOE will be establishing more single-sex schools to introduce"more options in the education landscape".
For example, if there were three schools in a new town, all three being co-ed will mean that there are spots for an equal number of boys and girls. Mr Chan added that MOE does not have a plan to proactively convert existing single gender schools to co-ed schools, though there have been several cases over the decades in which a single-sex school becomes a co-ed one.
"MOE was glad that ACS board was open to this request, and subsequently ACS board informed MOE that ACS Primary would be the relocating school."
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