Fast Facts:
- There are more than 16 leading foreign universities from Europe, USA and Asia with substantial activities in Singapore
- Singapore is a key training hub for international executive programmes and corporate training.
- Singapore has more than 50 key local education providers catering to more than 70,000 international students
Singapore has coupled diverse Asian school systems with Western-styled education practices in our creation of a truly global education hub, where students have the best institutions in the world within reach.
In 2005, Singapore hosted more than 70,000 international students, drawn to the offer of an extensive range of high-quality educational programmes, and the promise of a safe, cosmopolitan environment. Singapore's vision of becoming a Global Schoolhouse has led to the cultivation of relations with foreign universities, thus resulting in the 15 leading international universities that now call Singapore home. These include MIT, INSEAD, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, Technical University of Eindhoven, Technical University of Munich, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Stanford University.
There was also an expansion of the breadth and diversity of the local education scene with the addition of preparatory and boarding schools, and institutes of specialization ranging from hospitality, culinary, and digital arts, to sports, e-learning and corporate training.
We continue to maintain our status of one of the world's leading and most trusted education hubs with numerous initiatives.
Some of Singapore's Education Initiatives
Singapore has instituted the Education Excellence Framework to ensure that commercial schools focus on academic distinction, organisational excellence and comprehensive student protection and welfare practices to safeguard students' interests.
The programme encourages academic distinction by rewarding local private schools with accreditation according to their standards of quality courseware. The Singapore Quality Class for Private Education Organisations, in partnership with SPRING Singapore, promotes organisational merit through the recognition of commendable business performances of Private Educational Organisations (PEOs).
To ensure that schools adopt and maintain first-rate student protection and welfare practices and standards for international students, the Economic Development Board (EDB), the Consumer Association of Singapore, the Singapore Tourism Board, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority and SPRING Singapore, have introduced the CaseTrust for Education scheme, which applies to all PEOs.
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