7 New IP schools

[phankao]

centraljava:

The natural candidates would be those organizations

that already have secondary AND JC in place
eg. Methodists, Catholic & Anglican among others.

i.e, we might see:

MGS
SJI, St. Nic's, Catholic High
St. Marg, St. Andrew's
Anderson

Why have to be with JC in place, har? Can just extend another 2 years, wat. I know some of the schools had already planned it that way when they proposed their own IP programme to MOE years before.

[sinoboy]

phankao:

centraljava:

The natural candidates would be those organizations

that already have secondary AND JC in place
eg. Methodists, Catholic & Anglican among others.

i.e, we might see:

MGS
SJI, St. Nic's, Catholic High
St. Marg, St. Andrew's
Anderson

Why have to be with JC in place, har? Can just extend another 2 years, wat. I know some of the schools had already planned it that way when they proposed their own IP programme to MOE years before.

It's already mentioned it's for weaker students. Most likely it's to help students from normal technical streams from schools such as SUTD or even ITE get into polytechnic. Don't hope for too much.

[jtoh]

phankao:

centraljava:

The natural candidates would be those organizations

that already have secondary AND JC in place
eg. Methodists, Catholic & Anglican among others.

i.e, we might see:

MGS
SJI, St. Nic's, Catholic High
St. Marg, St. Andrew's
Anderson

Why have to be with JC in place, har? Can just extend another 2 years, wat. I know some of the schools had already planned it that way when they proposed their own IP programme to MOE years before.

It's not so easy to just extend another two years. The schools have to prove to MOE that they are able to cope with the A level syllabus and have the proper personnel and physical insfrastructure in place. If it was that simple, schools like MGS and SJI would've gotten their IP status years ago. These schools have been trying for IP for many many years, and turned down time and time again. And they have natural JCs (ie CJC and ACJC) to IP to.

[jtoh]

verykiasu2010:

other potentials :


Commonwealth, Crescent Girls, St Margaret's .....

anyone else gone autonomous recently ?

Unlkely. Remember IP schools that lead up to A levels are for the top few percent of students who are deemed to have been able to make it to JC regardless. Not all students in Commonwealth, Crescent and St Margarets fall under that category.

[jtoh]

JonC:

CHS, SNG & SJI are all Catholic Schools.


Will they IP as one? They used to be neighbours and brother/Sister school when the schools were in Town.

So which JC will join them, CJC?

There are so many CHIJ schools. Can you imagine if they are all part of the IP programme?

If CHS, SNG and SJI all IP to CJC, I don't think CJC will be able to cope with the massive intake. But yes, the Catholic link seems like the most natural progression to go.

[verykiasu2010]

jtoh:

verykiasu2010:

other potentials :


Commonwealth, Crescent Girls, St Margaret's .....

anyone else gone autonomous recently ?

Unlkely. Remember IP schools that lead up to A levels are for the top few percent of students who are deemed to have been able to make it to JC regardless. Not all students in Commonwealth, Crescent and St Margarets fall under that category.

now it may be more than the top few percents

existing 11 IP schools, each has about 450 sec 1 intakes = 4950, against a cohort size of say 40,000, it is already 12.4%.......(ok, given NJC,NUSH may not be up to 450 yet)


this additional 7 IP schools could be the result of the outcry to have more people wanting to get into IP but did not get reduced weightage in MT hence lower t-score .............

[Brenda10]

verykiasu2010:

this additional 7 IP schools could be the result of the outcry to have more people wanting to get into IP but did not get reduced weightage in MT hence lower t-score .............

Wow. Verykiasu2010 very fast.

[jtoh]

verykiasu2010:

jtoh:

[quote=\"verykiasu2010\"]other potentials :


Commonwealth, Crescent Girls, St Margaret's .....

anyone else gone autonomous recently ?

Unlkely. Remember IP schools that lead up to A levels are for the top few percent of students who are deemed to have been able to make it to JC regardless. Not all students in Commonwealth, Crescent and St Margarets fall under that category.

now it may be more than the top few percents

existing 11 IP schools, each has about 450 sec 1 intakes = 4950, against a cohort size of say 40,000, it is already 12.4%.......(ok, given NJC,NUSH may not be up to 450 yet)


this additional 7 IP schools could be the result of the outcry to have more people wanting to get into IP but did not get reduced weightage in MT hence lower t-score .............[/quote]The IP through train was created so those \"who are clearly university-bound can benefit from spending the last four years of their upper secondary/ JC education from Secondary Three to JC Two engaging in broader learning experiences.\" (quoted from MOE).

I don't think MOE will change the tenet of IP to allow students who are not \"clearly University bound\" to partake in the IP programme. Of course with the success of the pioneer batch of IP students, MOE is more confident about opening up the opportunity to more students and hence the next level of top percentage of students will now be eligible. But they would still have to be clearly able and University bound. Hence they would still be selective about the standard of school and students selected for the programme.

UNLESS: For these new IP schools, not everyone in it will enjoy IP status. Only the top students will enjoy it while the rest progress on the O level route.

[daisyt]

Immediately my first comment to dd was \"you all better buck up & produce good A lvl results, 7 more IP schools competing\". I know its wrong to have this thinking but it just come tomy mind naturally lor. :oops:


And when PM mentioned they are not tring to make things tough for the young generation but preparing them for crises, dd was rolling eyes. :roll:

[Brenda10]

daisyt:

Immediately my first comment to dd was \"you all better buck up & produce good A lvl results, 7 more IP schools competing\". I know its wrong to have this thinking but it just come tomy mind naturally lor. :oops:


And when PM mentioned they are not tring to make things tough for the young generation but preparing them for crises, dd was rolling eyes. :roll:

I think it would be very much depend on the implementation is to start with the new batch of PSLE students or start with those secondary students (meet the requirement) whose school going to be the 7 IP schools.