Schools registered under the previous Education Act will have until June next year to sign up under the new scheme. These include private universities, commercial schools and international schools. All the other schools had to submit applications to be registered with the CPE by February this year. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
THE cleanup of the private education sector has begun with the implementation of new stringent regulations, and it is likely to hit almost half of the existing institutions here.
In all, some 400 of the 1,000 private schools here are expected to go, the Council for Private Education (CPE) - a new statutory board charged with cleaning up the sector - said yesterday.
This is the result of either closures or mergers - with bigger partners or with schools owned by the same company.
The CPE believes that the changing landscape is the result of the new and tough Private Education Bill passed late last year as part of the Government?s efforts to raise standards of the sector riddled with complaints from students and parents and, at times, troubled by sudden closures of schools, some of which were offering sub-par programmes.
The council, a Ministry of Education statutory board set up to regulate the sector, has started with the registration of schools.
Schools registered under the previous Education Act will have until June next year to sign up under the new scheme. These include private universities, commercial schools and international schools. All the other schools had to submit applications to be registered with the CPE by February this year.
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