~Singapore School offers pathway to academic success
~Singapore School offers pathway to academic success
JP/17/P14 attracts thousands of overseas student, including those from Indonesia, to pursue quality education, not only at tertiary level, but also at primary, secondary and pre-university levels.
The Singapore PSB Academy, a leading educational institution with over thirty years' experience in training and education in Singapore, expanded into Jakarta in July this year. The Singapore PSB School is located in Kelapa Gading in North Jakarta and in Kebon Jeruk in West Jakarta.
The Singapore PSB School in Indonesia uses the same curriculum as schools in Singapore. The only exception is Indonesian Studies which is taught in Bahasa Indonesia, complying with official regulations governing National Plus schools, says the Singapore PSB School's Head of Academics, Mr. Tan Kian Hock.
The Singapore educational system is well known world-wide for its academic rigor, its emphasis on creative thinking, and its systematic development of the scientific and mathematical mind. Tan commented that what makes the Singapore PSB School stand out is its uncompromising stand on quality and its continuous training of the teachers to ensure that quality, for after all, PSB is synonymous with Quality.
In-service teacher-training to complement the initial training of the teachers is an important feature of the school's program even though all teachers have already received formal teacher training from accredited teacher-training institutions, like the National Institute of Education (NIE) of Singapore, before they are appointed to teach in the Singapore PSB School.
The PSB School in Indonesia offers classes at Primary, Secondary and Pre-University. The standard of the PSB School is benchmarked against international educational standards. Students in the PSB School sit the International Primary School Leaving Examinations (iPSLE) conducted by the Singapore Ministry of Education. The iPSLE is the international version of the PSLE which all Singapore students sit at the end of Primary Six.
At the end of Secondary Four, PSB School students sit the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (iGCSE). At the end of pre-university, PSB School students sit the GCE Advanced Level. Both the iGCSE and Advanced Level examinations are conducted by the world-renown University of Cambridge International Examinations.
Mr. Tony Capati, CEO, explained a unique feature of the PSB School. This is the Complete Career Pathway which the school has put in place. Besides an academic pathway which takes the students to Advanced Levels and beyond, PSB School offers the students an alternative career pathway in a specialized field of studies by embarking on the PSB Academy's Diploma and Advanced Diploma program. Students could continue along this route immediately after iGCSE, and from there proceed to a tertiary qualification they aspire to achieve with the various PSB university partners in Australia, the UK and the US.