Social Sciences and Education

The country with the best quality of education worldwide

Flag of singapore

Singapore is a parliamentary republic and is the fourth largest financial center in the world (has the fourth largest foreign exchange market in the world) and as confirmed by its GDP (one of the highest GDP per capita in the world) is one of the richest countries in the world and one of the countries with better quality of Education. In addition, the monetary fitness is linked to a rich multiracial culture.

Parliament is unicameral: The executive power is represented by the President (who is elected by parliament for a term of four years), but in practice the prime minister and his cabinet who govern. And the 81 members of parliament are elected for a term of five years

All citizens are obliged to attend state schools until the sixth Level of primary education when they have usually 12 years old and their academic levels are established by the Ministry of Education and the English language is the language used in their teaching.

• The life expectancy is 81 years old
• 92.5% of the population is literate
• Its ethnic diversity is: Chinese 76.8% - 13.9% Malaysians - Indians 7.9% - Other 1.4%
• The population is 5,353,494

Distribution by Age

• 0-14 years: 13.8% (male 338.419/mujeres 314 704)
• 15-64 years: 77% (male 1,874,985 1.774.444/mujeres)
• 65 years and over: 9.2% (male 196.101/mujeres 242 084)

Growth Rate 1,993%

Birth rate 7.72 births

Mortality rate 3.41 deaths

Net migration rate 15.62 migrant (s)

Singapore Dollar

Education system in Singapore

Is no stranger to the Singapore education system is of high quality and for that the Ministry of Education established a standard system of quality assessment. According to local officials and academics, Lee Kwan Yew (Founder of the country) had the vision to turn Singapore into a bilingual country with English speaking and all based on a meritocratic model which states that hierarchical positions are achieved by merit.

University Of Singapore

This has made their universities they graduate highly qualified and this is reflected in the high results achieved in international assessments. Should be noted that Singapore has an obsession for quality education, so much so that you can see on dollar bills from other countries that show images of Heroes of the past and the two-dollar bill shows a classroom with students listening to the teacher a university in the background and below you can read the word "education". Compulsory education starts in kindergarten at 4 to 6 years after six years of primary school from age 6 to age 12 and ends with four years of high school from 12 to 16.

All this is caused by the absence of natural resources so that the country should focus on developing their most important resource: the human resource. In Singapore, the government has established a Salarian range equal to an engineer for a teacher. Resulting teachers that applicants come from 30% of students with better performance. Below are the results from PISA

Math: 1st Shanghai , 2nd Singapore

NUS: National University Of Singapore

Science: 1st Shanghai, 2nd Finland, 3rd Hong Kong , 4th Singapore
Reading: 1st Shanghai, 2nd South Korea, 3er Findald, 4th Hong Kong, 5th Singapore

The Types of School In Singapore are:

• Government School
• Autonomous
• Private
• Homeschooling (Educate the Child At Home)

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