The goal is to achieve full subject-based banding, with students freely mixing and matching classes from different bands, by 2024. Although students take most of their classes within their bands, they can take classes in other bands depending on their aptitude and interest in a given subject. Educators abandoned the practice of funneling students into ability-based tracks and began sorting them into three different “bands” in secondary school based on their ultimate educational goal.
In 2004, the government developed the “Teach Less, Learn More” initiative, which moved instruction further away from its early focus on rote memorization and repetitive tasks and toward deeper conceptual understanding and problem-based learning. Since the 1990s, the nation has focused on boosting creativity and capacity for innovation in its students. In 2015, the nation was first in the world in all three subjects in 2018, four Chinese provinces outperformed Singapore, but the small island nation continued to outperform every other nation.Īt the end of World War II, Singapore implemented the first in a succession of economic development strategies rooted in improved education and training. That year, Singapore’s 15-year-olds were among the top performers in all three subjects. In 2009, when Singapore participated for the first time in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the results of Prime Minister Lee’s efforts were already clear.
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