Integrated Programme (IP)

[traineeks]

VitoRelax:

How come SJI is allowed to apply for IP ? Tot they closed the gate in 2005 ?


After all, not all who got into SJI are top 10% of the cohort ?

SJI proposed a hybrid model like ACSI - offering both O level and IP. So if approved, only their top students can be in IP.

[VitoRelax]

traineeks:

SJI proposed a hybrid model like ACSI - offering both O level and IP. So if approved, only their top students can be in IP.

But how can MOE approve SJI application when in 2005, MOE said they has closed the gates on new IP program ?

[traineeks]

VitoRelax:

But how can MOE approve SJI application when in 2005, MOE said they has closed the gates on new IP program ?

Don't know.

SJI only applied but no approval from MOE yet. As far as I can recall. SJI has been trying to offer and get IP approval for a long time. Some say the new principal has been brought in to help get IP approval.

NJC has changed from a 4 year program to a 6 year program. Many suspect that this is to draw the better students from year one. Now, VJC is also trying to do the same.

I don't think MOE has added any new IP schools since 2005. But maybe now with more experience and results seen from IP, more students could benefit from a IP program and skipping O levels. The basic premise of IP is it targets students who are \"clearly university bound\" to skip O levels. Maybe it is clearer now that those who are \"clearly university bound\" are not just the top 10% but also the top from the mainstream schools.

I am only guessing here. Only MOE or those in policy making would know where education landscape is heading.

[VitoRelax]

traineeks:

Don't know.


SJI only applied but no approval from MOE yet. As far as I can recall. SJI has been trying to offer and get IP approval for a long time. Some say the new principal has been brought in to help get IP approval.

NJC has changed from a 4 year program to a 6 year program. Many suspect that this is to draw the better students from year one. Now, VJC is also trying to do the same.

I don't think MOE has added any new IP schools since 2005. But maybe now with more experience and results seen from IP, more students could benefit from a IP program and skipping O levels. The basic premise of IP is it targets students who are \"clearly university bound\" to skip O levels. Maybe it is clearer now that those who are \"clearly university bound\" are not just the top 10% but also the top from the mainstream schools.

I am only guessing here. Only MOE or those in policy making would know where education landscape is heading.

I thought SJI already have IB program. Why they want IP program some more ?

Like RI, they already have IP program now they want IB program.

Are they gonna increase intake or split the same number into IP & IB ?

Soon, these top schools will offer degree programs, then Pri school will offer programs until Sec school ...

then some Pri school will take in smart kids at 2 years old to do Pri 1 ....

[phankao]

VitoRelax:

I thought SJI already have IB program. Why they want IP program some more ?

SJI(International) has IB programme.
http://www.sji-international.com.sg/
See the Fees:
http://www.sji-international.com.sg/fees2009.htm

SJI - the regular (non-international school)
http://www.sji.moe.edu.sg/
This one - the fees S$290 for singaporean.
http://www.sji.moe.edu.sg/subpage.php?id=110

[VitoRelax]

phankao:

SJI(International) has IB programme.
http://www.sji-international.com.sg/
See the Fees:
http://www.sji-international.com.sg/fees2009.htm

Wah, the fees for the IB makes me :siam:

Singaporean doing IB in SJI also pay these type of fees ?

[phankao]

VitoRelax:

phankao:

SJI(International) has IB programme.
http://www.sji-international.com.sg/
See the Fees:
http://www.sji-international.com.sg/fees2009.htm

Wah, the fees for the IB makes me :siam:

Singaporean doing IB in SJI also pay these type of fees ?

Of course, lah! See, the registration fees already over S$2k. ACS(International) also similar, so is HCI(International) ... and whateva other international school lah.

[VitoRelax]

phankao:

Of course, lah! See, the registration fees already over S$2k. ACS(International) also similar, so is HCI(International) ... and whateva other international school lah.

So these International Schools don't participate in S1 posting lah ?

I just look at the MOE book, SJI only got the normal program.

But why SJI wants so much to offer IP program ? If anyhting, isn't Cat High, CHIJ St Nich or SCGS are in better position to offer IP than SJI (as these schools, their COP is higher than SJI) ?

[xxjustakidxx]

VitoRelax:

phankao:

Of course, lah! See, the registration fees already over S$2k. ACS(International) also similar, so is HCI(International) ... and whateva other international school lah.

So these International Schools don't participate in S1 posting lah ?

I just look at the MOE book, SJI only got the normal program.

But why SJI wants so much to offer IP program ? If anyhting, isn't Cat High, CHIJ St Nich or SCGS are in better position to offer IP than SJI (as these schools, their COP is higher than SJI) ?

Catholic High's affiliation COP intimidates me, btw.
Anyway, if we see the mean for all these schools, SJI isn't any behind Cat High.
Personally, I fell that SJI is more suited for the IP programme and it is actually applying to become a hybrid - O levels for the lower-abilitied, IP for the higher-abilitied. And that means COP doesn't matter much, as the pupils who score lower aren't included in IP.
Like ACS (I), there is an IP COP, which I predict to be 25+, as its higher than SJI's mean score.
And, HCIS's hair rules seem really unstrict - I see girls with \"not permitted in primary school\" hair. Their English and Chinese is also really very unsinglish, with the china accent for chinese and the american accent for english. Their books, I saw in our bookshop (They use the same bookshop as high school) is also very different from the IP/normal syllabus.

[phankao]

xxjustakidxx:

Personally, I fell that SJI is more suited for the IP programme and it is actually applying to become a hybrid - O levels for the lower-abilitied, IP for the higher-abilitied. And that means COP doesn't matter much, as the pupils who score lower aren't included in IP.
Like ACS (I), there is an IP COP, which I predict to be 25+, as its higher than SJI's mean score..

The difference betwn sji & chs is that sji is an independent school, so it can run it's own programmes...shd b similar to acsi. CHS is not independent, so most probably won't be given the flexibility to run 2-track programmes by MOE. Hence CHS school fees v cheap compared to SJI's S$290.