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  • 8 - Reform Implementation Lessons

  • Edited by Colleen McLaughlin, University of Cambridge, Alan Ruby, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    Implementing Educational Reform
    Published online:
    19 November 2021
    Print publication:
    25 November 2021, pp 149-170

  • Summary

    Singapore is an improbable success story in the design and implementation of education reforms that transformed a small, resource starved port into a nation, indispensable to first the region, then globally. This chapter illustrates policy formulation and implementation challenges in unifying a school system that had been segmented by media of instruction to aid rapid and transformative industrialisation. It refers to the successes in enhancing access to education and the difficulties posed by hasty and poorly implemented policy of school bilingualism and documents how these were overcome. This globally oriented system embraced choice, competition and branding and changed curricular and pedagogic frameworks, enhanced TVET, re-positioned the universities and upgraded teacher education. While this has underpinned a system which ranks highly in all international comparisons of educational quality, the policies and practices are not a package or simple formula for others to embrace, they are a product of time and place and are likely to change as Singapore looks to the future.