SECOND LANGUAGE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Parliament of Singapore · 26 August 1966 · 1st Parliament

Official Report, 26 August 1966, Vol 25, Issue 5 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)

Ng Kah TingOng Pang Boon

Friday, 26th August, 1966

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Mr Ng Kah Ting asked the Minister for Education in how many secondary schools are second language classes conducted, and how many students are taking up a second language.

Mr Ong Pang Boon: Second languages are being taught to students in all the 114 Government and Government-aided secondary schools, including technical and vocational secondary schools and secondary departments of full schools.

Altogether, out of a total of 132,722 secondary school students, 112,997 students, or 85.1 per cent of the secondary enrolment, are being taught a second language in secondary schools.

This figure includes 32,591 Secondary 1 students for whom a second language is compulsory this year. A second language is being made compulsory in the secondary schools by stages, so that by 1969 every secondary student will have to sit for a second language in the School Certificate examination.

Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 26 August 1966. Republished on SGParliament.