The Education System in Singapore: The Key to its Success
[Pages:52]The Education System in Singapore: The Key to its Success
Madrid, Spain November 2011
Prof S Gopinathan Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
Academic Group
How did Singapore
transit from Third
World to First World
in four decades, and
what role did
education
and
training play in this?
Singapore: Key Indicators
Became independent in 1965
Small island:
710 sq km
Population:
5.183 million
A multi-ethnic society:
Chinese (74.1%), Malay (13.4%)
Indian (9.2%), other races (3.3%)
No natural resources, very dependent on trade
GDP per capita:
US$516 (1965); US$43,867 (2010)
GDP growth in 2010:
14.7%
[Expectations for rest of the decade is 5%]
Manufacturing (of GDP):
28%
Savings rate (to GDP):
50% (estimated)
Expenditure in R&D:
S$6.04 billion (2.2% of GDP in 2009)
No. of schools / students: 328 / 481,110
Expenditure of education: S$9.91billion (21.4%) of budget (2010)
S$10.91 billion (23.2%) of budget (2011)
(estimated)
3.3% of GDP (2010)
Key State-Building Imperatives
Build social cohesion out of ethnic diversity, division and political instability
Give citizens a stake via job creation, access to quality public goods - housing, health, education etc.
Developmental States in East Asia
Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong were fragile states whose sovereignty was under threat; Singapore's fragility is captured in the phrase `politics of survival'.
In Singapore, an export-led industrialisation model (1965-1985) with success in attracting FDI proved to be hugely successful.
Developmental States in East Asia
Ashton et al (1999) identify four characteristic features of the East Asian developmental states:
Politico-economic strategy with economic growth as the basis for state's legitimacy
Mechanisms to link trade and industry policy to education and training policy
Developmental States in East Asia
Centralised control, close alignment between the education and training system, and labour markets
The ability to maintain the links through time
High level, multi-agency coordination results in `joined up government'
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