Inside the world's most elite education system

Smack bang in the middle of Singapore, families bustle and bump through a shopping centre on a typically steamy Saturday morning. But unlike most retail hubs, there’s really nothing to buy in many of the stores here.

That hunger has served the country well. The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment tests 15-year-olds around the world in reading, maths and science. It’s basically a NAPLAN Olympics which is carried out every three years but countries, rather than schools, are ranked in global league tables. The most recent results from 2015 place Singaporean students at the top of the heap.

“One of the key principles in our Singaporean education system is to ‘lift the bottom but not cap the top’,” Janice said. When Lee Kwan Yew became the first prime minister of Singapore in 1959 he said the only natural resource the country had was its people, transforming the country from a third to a first world country in a single generation.

Singapore’s Ministry of Education sets out a clear career path and gives teachers opportunities inside and outside the classroom. Teachers might be tapped or apply to move into curriculum development for instance and all teachers must change schools every few years.Talk to any Singaporean 12-year-old about life’s stresses and you’re bound to hear about the dreaded “PSLEs”, the Primary School Leaving Examination. It determines which high school children will go to.

I think Australia should be treating Teaching as a highly valued profession. However, I don't see the value of having children being force-fed education. We already have complaints that children spend too much time indoors. There has to be a happy medium.

Singapore has developed well, based on discipline. I’ve lived there. They built it from nothing into a powerhouse. Lessons to be learned on our doorstep

How about spend less time indoctrinating children in climate bullshit, gender identity crap and teaching them to loath themselves as all are “racist” and apparently privileged. Maybe teach children critical thinking.

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