Recent developments in education in Singapore

This analysis of recent developments and trends in education in Singapore a ttempts to show how a government through a pragmatic approach to education and nation-building has tried to resolve, within the framework of a number of unchanging parameters, some of the problems posed by constant social cha nge and a rapidly changing national and global economy. The parameters are the multiracial and multilingual nature of Singapore society, the maximisat ion of the potential in all its young citizens through the provision of edu cational opportunities, and the maintenance of equality of treatment and op portunity for all, irrespective of ethnicity, religion and language. In the final analysis, the central tenets of an ideology underpinning the educati on system are identified.