Percentages of Students on Financial Assistance Scheme

Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang asked the Minister for Education for each year in the past five years, what are the percentages of students who receive assistance from the Ministry's Financial Assistance Scheme who are from the (i) Normal (Technical) (ii) Normal (Academic) and (iii) Express streams respectively.

Mr Ong Ye Kung: From 2014 to 2018, 28% of secondary school students who received assistance from the MOE Financial Assistance Scheme were from the Normal (Technical) stream; 41% were from the Normal (Academic) stream; 31% were from the Express stream. The percentages for each of the five years were similar.