More and more young students choose to study abroad for high school. Among them, Singapore is relatively close to my country and has little cultural difference, so it is very popular among parents. Let’s take a look at which students are suitable for studying abroad in high schools in Singapore.
Which students are suitable for studying abroad in Singapore high schools?
Poor English foundation
Many Chinese students have a weak language foundation. Studying in Singapore is full of obstacles. Many students have to spend at least a year or even longer to learn English. Although Singapore has a good language atmosphere, it is quite difficult to pass language courses. Many international students never meet the school's required scores in IELTS or TOEFL. Therefore, they can only choose to return to their country to take the language test before studying in Singapore. Therefore, a solid foundation in English is the primary condition for high school students to study in Singapore.
Poor self-care ability
For high school students studying abroad in Singapore, a mature mind is the most basic condition. However, although many high school students have studied hard for 12 years, they have only learned book knowledge and lack the ability to think independently. These problems prevent high school students from integrating into new environments.
Inadequate family economic conditions
The cost of studying abroad in Singapore for high school students is definitely not small. The Singapore Education Alliance recommends that parents of international students consider whether the family's financial situation in recent years can afford the cost of studying in Singapore for their children. Some parents only want to send their children abroad, but they don’t understand the situation abroad. After their children go abroad, they will learn nothing except spending their parents’ hard-earned money. This is a shameful thing.
Insufficient visa preparation
High school students studying in Singapore must have high-quality visa materials. Many of them spend almost all their time on preparing visa materials before going abroad, but they don’t When you are about to go abroad, you don’t have time to strengthen and improve the quality of your visa materials. Due to the rush of preparation, you may not be able to successfully obtain the visa in one go or even be refused.
What are the excellent high schools in Singapore?
Raffles Junior College
(Raffles Junior College) Singapore Raffles Junior College is one of the junior colleges in Singapore. This is a British school with a long history, founded by Mr. Raffles Stanford, the discoverer of Singapore. This world-renowned school has always been called the "through train to the Ivy League."
Singapore Hwa Chong Institution
(Hwa Chong Institution) Hwa Chong Institution is one of the junior colleges in Singapore. It has a strong Chinese atmosphere, and Chinese calligraphy works and displays can be seen everywhere on campus. Almost all students in Central China can speak Chinese. Hwa Chong is a veritable Chinese school among the five major junior colleges.
Victoria Junior College
(Victoria Junior College) Victoria Junior College is one of the five major junior colleges in Singapore and also a British school. It is located on the east coast of Singapore, with beautiful scenery and pleasant scenery. It is an academy that everyone in the east district aspires to. Someone once joked that Weichu is the junior college with the most handsome boys and beautiful girls in Singapore.
National Junior College
(National Junior College) was established in 1969. It is the first junior college in Singapore. It provides two-year high school courses. Students study in two years. After completion, take the Singapore-Cambridge GCE 'A' Level. National Junior College is ranked among the top five junior colleges every year and is an excellent junior college in Singapore. Singapore’s current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his younger brother Lee Hsien Yang are both alumni of the National Junior College
Temasek Junior College
(Temasek Junior College) Temasek Junior College was founded in 1977 and is a school located in A two-year high school in Bedok in eastern Singapore, it is also the second national junior college in Singapore.
Since 2005, four-year middle school-high school courses have also been offered. It is one of the "top five junior colleges" in Singapore and is known for its students' excellent academic performance and contributions to social services. Since the uniforms of the college are green and the campus is fully greened, the campus is also nicknamed Green Park.
What are the benefits of studying abroad in high school in Singapore?
Funding advantage
The Singaporean government has always attached great importance to education. In the fiscal budget, education expenditure ranks second, second only to defense expenditure.
Over the years, Singapore’s education investment has accounted for about 4% of GDP and about 23% of fiscal revenue.
Public secondary schools in Singapore are divided into three types: autonomous, autonomous and government secondary schools. Among them, the tuition fees for government middle schools are uniformly stipulated by the Ministry of Education, and the expenses are also directly responsible for the Ministry of Education; while autonomous schools enjoy relatively larger amounts of funding, and internal management is the responsibility of the principal.
As for independent middle schools, not only do they enjoy the most funding, but they can also set their own tuition fees, which are generally much more expensive than those of ordinary middle schools. The so-called famous schools, such as Overseas Chinese Middle School and Raffles Girls' Secondary School, are independent schools.
Strength advantage
Since you have money, you will usually spend it in two places. The first is facility construction, and the second is teacher construction.
Teachers in independent schools can be hired entirely by the school itself! For example, at Raffles Girls' High School, more than 70 teachers have master's and doctoral degrees.
Of course, the strength advantage also includes the student advantage.
Students who can enter Raffles Institution, Raffles Girls' School, Hwa Chong, Nanyang Girls' High School, Ying Hua, Deming and other secondary schools have achieved excellent results in the Primary Sixth Form Examination (PSLE), or Children who excel in arts and sports.
Examination Advantages
The O-level exam is a disaster for Singaporean middle school students. It takes more than a month. It really makes people lose their temper at the end...
However, top students in their teens can go to prestigious schools to study for six-year through-train (IP) courses without taking O-level exams.
Currently, 18 secondary schools in Singapore offer IP courses, and more schools are expected to join in the future.
Schools that offer IP courses
Among the through-train schools, NUS High School (National University of Mathematics and Science) not only does not need to take O-level exams, but even A-levels are omitted for students.
Teaching Advantages
First of all, compared with ordinary middle schools, the curriculum of independent and self-governing schools is more flexible and rich, and students have more choices.
Secondly, students from prestigious schools not only have excellent academic performance, but also have outstanding performance in extracurricular activities (CCA). After all, the teachers who teach them are all people who are very good in the professional field.
For example, the Chinese orchestra of Deming Middle School wins the national competition championship almost every year.
Potential advantage
It is said that what makes Singaporeans proud is not the two top Asian universities, the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, but that their children can enter Singapore. There are four secondary schools: Buddhist Girls' High School, Raffles Institution, Overseas Chinese Secondary School, and Nanyang Girls' High School.
Moreover, there seems to be a tradition that "children of politicians go to Raffles, and children from wealthy families go to Overseas Chinese".
Moreover, in order to make themselves "international", many middle schools take a global route, whether in competitions, exchanges or classes.
For example, the International Education Alliance initiated and established by Nanyang Girls’ High School has cooperation and exchange projects with many famous Chinese schools such as Fudan High School, Renmin University High School, and Beijing High School.
The advantages of Singapore’s top middle schools can be divided into two parts. First, the school’s own advantages. Needless to say, there is money, the best teachers, equipment, etc.