The Singapore education system aims to provide students with a holistic and broad-based education through developing eight core skills and values. It seeks to nurture each child's potential through a curriculum that imparts literacy, numeracy, bilingualism, sciences, humanities and more. Teaching strategies and assessments are designed to help students achieve learning outcomes and acquire skills like character development, social skills, thinking skills and knowledge application. The goal is to develop students who are morally, intellectually and socially strong contributors to Singapore's growth.

1. Vision
SINGAPORE
EDUCATION SYSTEM
Holistic Development of
Students
Broad-based Curriculum

2. “Thinking Schools,
Learning Nation”.

3. To prepare a generation of
thinking and committed citizens
who are capable of contributing
towards Singapore’s continued
growth and prosperity, the
Ministry is constantly revisiting
its curriculum to ensure that the
skills and knowledge taught in
schools meet the challenges of the
21st century.

4. The Singapore education system aims to
provide students with a holistic and
broad-based education.
 Given the multi-cultural and multi-racial
characteristics of Singapore, the
bilingual policy is a key feature of the
Singapore education system.
Under the bilingual policy, every
student learns English which is the
common working language.
Students also learn their mother tongue
language (Chinese, Malay or Tamil), to
help them retain their ethnic identity,
culture, heritage and values.

5. The Desired Outcomes of Education
(DOE) articulates the importance of
holistically nurturing students to
become well-rounded persons -
morally, intellectually, physically,
socially and aesthetically through a
set of eight core skills and values.
The Eight Core
Skills And Values

6. THE EIGHT CORE SKILLS
AND VALUES
1.Character Development
2. Self Management Skills
3. Social and Cooperative Skills
4. Literacy and Numeracy
5.Communication Skills
6.Information Skills
7.Thinking Skills and Creativity
8.Knowledge Application Skills

7. IT IS ENVISIONED THAT
STUDENTS AT THE END OF
PRIMARY EDUCATION,
SECONDARY EDUCATION
AND PRE-UNIVERSITY
WOULD HAVE ACQUIRED
THESE EIGHT CORE
SKILLS AND VALUES.

8. Singapore’s national curriculum aims
to nurture each child to his full
potential, to discover his talents and to
develop in him a passion for life-long
learning.
Students go through a broad range of
experiences to develop the skills and
values that they will need for life.
The broad-based curriculum imparts
literacy, numeracy, bilingualism, the
sciences, humanities, aesthetics,
physical education, civics and moral
education and National Education.

9. Over the years, the curriculum has
been reviewed to address the need for a
common set of values, knowledge and
competencies and at the same time,
allow differentiation to meet the needs
of students with different talents and
abilities.
To enable students to achieve the
learning outcomes of each specific
subject and the DOE, three broad
areas are considered, namely, the
curriculum, teaching strategies and
assessment.

10. Teaching Strategies
Classroom management,
pedagogy, teaching &
learning resources
Students ’
Learning
Experiences
Content
Aims & objectives,
content, skills &
competencies,
values & attitudes
Assessment
Formative and
summative
Figure 1: Students’ Learning Experiences

11. The content states the aims and
objectives, the content, the skills and
competencies required for the syllabi and
the values and attitudes that the syllabi
hope to impart to the students.
Appropriate teaching strategies are
designed for successful classroom
delivery of the syllabi, using effective
teaching and learning materials.
To evaluate if students have learned
what has been taught, students are
tested through formative and summative
assessments.

12. Desired
Outcomes
of
Education

13. At the end of primary
education, students
At the end of secondary
education, students
At the end of pre-university
education,
students
are able to distinguish
right from wrong
have moral integrity are resilient and resolute
have learnt to share and
put others first
have care and concern for
others
have a sound sense of
social responsibility
are able to build
friendships with others
are able to work in teams
and value every
contribution
understand what it takes
to inspire and motivate
others
have a lively curiosity
about things
are enterprising and
innovative
have an entrepreneurial
and creative spirit
are able to think for and
express themselves
possess a broad-based
foundation for further
education
are able to think
independently and
creatively
take pride in their work believe in their ability strive for excellence
have cultivated healthy
have an appreciation of
have a zest for life
habits
aesthetics
love know and believe in understand what it takes
to lead