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Singapore's public schools come under the purview of the Ministry of Education. Singapore has many primary schools and secondary schools, as well as junior colleges, centralised institutes, polytechnics and universities providing tertiary education.

Under the Compulsory Education Act which came into effect on 1 January 2003, all children have to start attending primary school at the age of 7. It is a criminal offence to fail to do so; however, parents may apply for an exemption from the Ministry of Education for their child to be homeschooled or to attend full-time religious institutions.

Primary schools

Secondary schools

Junior Colleges and Millennia Institute

Below is a list of schools offering a two or three-year pre-university education in Singapore, along with the special programmes offered by the schools. The year of establishment in this article reflects the year in which the pre-university programme is implemented, particularly for the Integrated Programme High Schools. All pre-university programmes in Singapore are mixed-sex in tandem with the Ministry of Education's (MOE) requirements. These schools can be divided into two groups: junior colleges and centralised institutes.

Junior colleges (JC)

These offer two-year courses leading to the Singapore-Cambridge GCE 'A' Level or International Baccalaureate examinations.

Millennia Institute (MI)

The only centralized institute in Singapore is Millennia Institute (MI), which offers a three-year course leading to the GCE A-level examination in arts, science, and commerce.

Abbreviations

MOE-based programmes:

• AEP = Art Elective Programme
• MEP = Music Elective Programme
• RSP = Regional Studies Programme
• HSP = Humanities Scholarship and Programme
• CLEP = Language Elective Programme (Chinese)
• MLEP = Language Elective Programme (Malay)
• TLEP = Language Elective Programme (Tamil)
• ELEP = Language Elective Programme (English)
• BSP = Bicultural Studies Programme

Polytechnics

Institute of Technical Education (ITE)

The Institute of Technical Education campuses were reorganized under the "collegiate system" into three major colleges around the island, a regrouping and renaming exercise which took effect on 1 January 2005. ITE College East was the first to open in Simei in January 2005, and the existing "ITE East Network" campuses were renamed as "ITE College Central" campuses, to be replaced by a new campus in Ang Mo Kio. "ITE West Network" campuses were renamed "ITE College West" campuses, and their new campus will be at Choa Chu Kang.

• ITE College Central (Regional Campus at Ang Mo Kio)
• ITE College West (Regional Campus at Choa Chu Kang)
• ITE College East (Regional Campus at Simei)

University of the Arts Singapore

In March 2021, Minister for Education Lawrence Wong announced that Singapore’s first arts university will be established in an alliance between the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and LASALLE College of the Arts, in a system akin to the University of the Arts, London. The formation of the University of the Arts Singapore (UAS) will see both colleges under the umbrella university be given degree-awarding powers independent of their current foreign partners, where the current long-distance degrees are issued through foreign universities. Singaporeans and permanent residents (PRs) enrolled in the approved degree programmes at the university of the arts will pay subsidised fees, comparable to those at autonomous universities here.

The seventh local university of Singapore will be the only publicly-funded private university other than the now defunct and restructured UniSIM in Singapore, and also the only university of the arts with its own degree-conferring power in Singapore slated to open in 2024.

Constituent colleges:

• Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
• LASALLE College of the Arts

Universities

Specialised tertiary schools

Language Centres

Special education schools

International schools

Supplementary schools

The Japanese Supplementary School Singapore [ja] (JSS; シンガポール日本語補習授業校 Shingapōru Nihongo Hoshū Jugyō Kō) - a Japanese supplementary school

See also

• List of medical schools in Singapore

References

1. ^ "Compulsory Education Act (Chapter 51)" (PDF). Attorney-General Chambers Singapore. UNESCO. 2000. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
2. "Singapore: Compulsory education". Archived from the original on 6 July 2006. Retrieved 1 May 2006.
3. "Centralised Institutes". Archived from the original on 22 November 2010. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
4. Singapore Polytechnic (2022). "Facts and Figures as at 31 Mar 2022". Shaping the New Normal in Education: SP Annual Report 2021/2022 (PDF). p. 18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2023.
5. Ngee Ann Polytechnic (2021). 2020/2021 Annual Report (PDF). p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 December 2022.
6. "Temasek Polytechnic Annual Report 2018/19".
7. "Nanyang Polytechnic Facts & Figures" (PDF).
8. Republic Polytechnic. "Student Intake & Enrolment". Annual Report 2021/2022 (PDF). p. 13.
9. "Singapore's first university of the arts to be established in NAFA and LASALLE alliance". CNA.
10. ^ "Singapore's first arts university, formed by NAFA and LASALLE alliance, to welcome students from 2024". CNA.
11. "Singapore to get first university of the arts, formed by alliance between Nafa and Lasalle". The Straits Times. 3 March 2021.
12. "Post-secondary". Ministry of Education, Singapore. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
13. "お問合せページ." The Japanese Supplementary School Singapore. Retrieved on February 14, 2015.
14. "アジアの補習授業校一覧（平成25年4月15日現在）" (). Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Retrieved on February 13, 2015. "シンガポール The Japanese Supplementary School Singapore 95 Clementi Road, SINGAPORE 129782"

External links

• Ministry of Education Singapore P1 Registration (in English)
• Singapore Government Directory
• Singapore Digital Homeschooling
• SkillsFuture Singapore and Workforce Singapore
• Committee for Private Education

• Lists of schools in Singapore
• Singapore education-related lists