The Straits Times, Aug 17, 1980
By June Tan
MORE students will go higher up the academic ladder from next year under plans to meet Singapore's trained manpower needs in the 1980s.
- Ministry will relax entry needs to Secondary 1 next year
- Intake increase of 14 per cent at Pre-U level next year
- Intake increase of 16 per cent at the varsity next year
- The largest increase at varsity will be in Engineering faculty
Announcing this at Nanyang University's 21st and final convocation ceremony yesterday, the Education Minister and NUS vice-chancellor, Dr Tony Tan, said:
"The key to the success of our restructuring programme (economic) is the availability of trained manpower. More skilled workers, technicians and university graduates have to be produced."
He said that meeting the manpower needs will depend on a good education system. Next year, a new education system will be implemented in Secondary 1.
Its main feature is that secondary schooling will take five years for average students and four years for those above average.
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