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Thursday, October 28, 2010
People in Yunnan @ 1:06 PM
Yunnan is noted for a very high level of ethnic diversity. It has the highest number of ethnic groups among all provinces and autonomous regions in China. Among the country's fifty-six recognised ethnic groups, twenty-five are found in Yunnan. Some 38% of the province's population are members of minorities, including the Yi, Bai, Hani, Tai, Dai, Miao, Lisu, Hui, Lahu, Va, Nakhi, Yao, Tibetan, Jingpo, Blang, Pumi, Nu, Achang, Jinuo, Mongolian, Derung, Manchu, Shui, and Buyei.
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Singapore's National Education @ 1:02 PM
Primary School
Students attend at age seven and it lasts for six years and sits for Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) at the end of the year. Four subjects are provided in primary school - English, Mathematics, Science and Mother Tongue language. All subjects are taught and examined in English except for "Mother Tongue language" which is taught and examined in either Malay, Mandarin (Chinese) or Tamil. While "Mother Tongue" refers to the first language internationally, in Singapore's education system and refer to the second or extra language as English, which is the first language. Public primary schools do not charge school fees but there might be nominal miscellaneous fees.
Secondary School
Students attend secondary school for four to five years, after primary school. There is a myriad of subjects offered in secondary schools, including English, mother tongue language, geography, history, elementary mathematics, advanced mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology, French, and Japanese.
The average student studies seven to eight subjects but it is relatively common for students to take more than eight subjects. All subjects in secondary school are taught and examined in English except for the "Mother Tongue language" which is taught and examined in Malay, Mandarin or Tamil. At the end of secondary school, students sit for the Singapore-Cambridge GCE 'O' Level examination and their results determine the kind of post-secondary education
routes they can pursue. School fees in most public secondary schools are nominal; they come up to around 5 SGD after subsidies. However, there are independent secondary schools that charge up to a few hundred dollars in school fees each month.
Not all students enroll into secondary schools. Many people attend vocational education institutes such as the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) where they graduate with a vocational certificate. Others attend the Singapore Sports School or a school with Integrated Programme where they bypass the Singapore-Cambridge GCE 'O' Level altogether.
After the O levels examinations, at around sixteen years of age, students normally enroll into a Junior College, Centralized Institute or Polytechnic. Programmes in Junior Colleges and Centralized Institutes lead to the GCE A levels examinations after two or three years.
Polytechnic & Universities
There are five polytechnics in Singapore. Singapore Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Temasek Polytechnic, Nanyang Polytechnic and Republic Polytechnic. Unlike similarly named institutions in many other countries, polytechnics in Singapore do not award degrees. Students in polytechnics graduate with a diploma at the end of three years.
There are five public universities in Singapore - National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Management University, Singapore University of Technology and Design and the Singapore Institute of Technology. The government has been building more public universities in the past few decades as it hopes to provide higher education for 30% of each cohort. Courses in polytechnics and universities are conducted entirely in English.
A plethora of foreign universities also have campuses in Singapore. They include INSEAD, Chicago Business School, New York University, University of Las Vegas, Technische Universität München, ESSEC and many more.
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