cutepandabear:Does anyone else get the sense that GEP is reducing their intake each year? Each GEP Centre seems to have downsized. Some centres only have one class. Is it really cos of falling birth rates or do you think GEP is being phased out?
I have, on reliable record that GEP is here to stay. But some centers experience class closures (from 4 to 3, 2 to 1 etc) because MOE/GEB wants to optimize teacher:student ratio to 1:25 at least. Some centers are 1:27. The ones that close had teacher:student ratio as low as 1:16.
In 1 year, 1 school had 63 Geppers in 3 classes. The efficient thing was to have only 2 classes of a total of 54 kids and post the other 9 out to other centers.