Need for Clearer Rules on Misleading Ads by some Private Schools

22 Oct

Posted by: sean in: Announcement, Tips for Improvement

It came to my awareness that the Ministry of Education (MOE) will be setting clearer rules to curb false and misleading ads by Private Schools.

I was watching Channel News Asia yesterday and heard of this news that many Private Schools are placing lots of misleading ads to attract students to join their schools.

It is important for me to blogpost about this since i noticed that portion of the readers using this chemistry blog-site are re-taking their O Levels as Private Candidates.

This is part of MOE’s efforts to strengthen the current regulatory framework for private education and the following will be done by them:

Set up an independent Council for Private Education
Ensure proper use of quality labels, symbols and trademarks by private schools in advertisements & promotional material

On the students’ part, before you enroll into a Private School, you might want to:

Go to the Private School’s Administrative Dept and asked them on course details carefully
Verify that what they state in the Brochures/Phamplets are really what is being offered to you
Be very specific on their credentials and capability. i.e. if you looking for a private school with MOE-trained teacher to help you, it is important for you to ask them specific questions such as “Are the teachers MOE-registered teachers or NIE-trained teachers?” NIE-trained teachers will be what you are looking for in this case. MOE-registered teacher is just a registration by many tuition centres and private schools to ensure they are more marketable

Hope this information is helpful to students (and their parents) that are continuing their higher education as a Private Candidate.

If you need more information or clarification on Private Schools, you can always go to:

Singapore Assessment & Examination Board (SEAB)

Ministry of Education (MOE)

Consumer Associations of Singapore (CASE)

You can check out the Newspapers article from TODAY Papers 23rd Oct 08.

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