Thanks for the query. Unfortunately, as I have indicated above, I cannot do so now. Perhaps the only source is to go the Straits Times own archives.

thanks for the article. there is nothing online about IMH and its high teacher-patient proportion even though i’ve heard on many occasions how it is true.

Would u be ableto suggest or provide any resources on the above issue?

Thanks again!

Yes, I agree and our people in MOE have been visiting them. But there seemed to be a stubborn refusal to learn from Finland. Perhaps our “success” have got to our heads. It becomes difficult to claim that we are an educational leader when we say we ourselves are following Finland.

Will our neighbors who have been regarding in such high esteem want to follow our model? Will our plans to be an educational hub and earn all the money that comes with it, for example, iPSLE for schools in the neighboring region, be torpedoed if we follow Finland. Will we also reduce our class sizes which the MOE have claimed all these while to be irrelevant but still used it for the Gifted Programme? Will the MOE be willing to give up the examination-centered approach and admit that they are a poor way to assess learning?

Thanks again.
Amran

Well the turnover rate is low because we have already stratified the students into abilities. The not so good are channeled to the ITEs and so on. But the stratification of these students is based largely on a very narrow band of intelligence. Those who display logical-mathematical and linguistic intelligences are deemed smart. MOE doesn’t care about those with other intelligences.

As I have also written in another post, it is interesting that SOTA and the Sports SChool was set up by other ministries not MOE. MOE is only interested in narrow definition of intelligence. They have a hand in the NUS High School and I suspect the Assumption Pathway School. The first is for obvious reasons. The second I suspect is to get the “troublesome kids” out of the main schools so the rest can learn.

Just look at other figures like the number of students now being referred to IMH. There is an alarming increase. Is this a successful system?