The Comparative of Educational System between Indonesia and Singapore

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Welcome back to my blog! Now i wanna talk about the educational system in the world. However, I wanna talk about the differences educational system between Indonesia and Singapore. Do you know, what is education? And how important education for us? Here the explanaion about that.

Education is a conscious and planned effort to realize a learning atmosphere and learning process so that students actively develop their potential to have religious spiritual strength, self-control, personality, intelligence, noble character, and the skills needed by themselves and society(UU SISDIKNAS 20,2003). From this explanation we know that education is the most important thing. Education can improve our skill,our intelegence and our character to be better and it will be needed for our future.

A.   In Indonesia education is divided into three levels.

1)     Primary education
This education is an early education for the first 9 years of schooling for children, That are Elementary School and Junior High School.

2)     Secondary Education

Secondary education is an advanced basic education, consisting of general secondary education and vocational secondary education. Secondary education in the form of Senior High School (SMA), Madrasah Aliyah (MA), Vocational High School (SMK), and Vocational Aliyah Madrasah (MAK), or other equivalent forms.

3)     Higher education
Higher education is a level of education after secondary education which includes undergraduate, master, doctoral and specialist programs organized by universities. Higher education in Indonesia consists of several types, higher education is the level of education after secondary education which includes diploma, undergraduate, master, special education and doctoral programs organized by universities (Law, National Education System, article 19: 2003)
Higher education can take the form of:

a)     Academy

b)     Polytechnic

c)     Sekolah Tinggi

d)     Institute

e)     University

B.    In Singapore, there are some categories of education such as:

1)     Kindergartens

Kindergarten school is a school with 3 years program. This Education is for children from 4 up to 6 years old. This Education consist of Nursery, Kindergarten 1 and 2. This school operate five days a week with 3 to 4 hours a day.

2)     Primary Education

This school is a compulsary school program in Singapore with 6 years education period. From 1-4 grade is for basic education and from 5 to 6 grade is for orientation. In the last year, students will get a national examination called PSLE (Primary School Leaving Examination), and it will be determine the futureof their education.

3)     Secondary Education

This level is equivalent to Junior and Senior High school with 4 to 5 years period. In the last year, studen will get the test again to continued their education to next level.

4)     Pre University Education

This education is a 2 years program for students who want to continue their education to university. After their graduate from Senior high school their must take this program and after that they can take Examination for continued to University.

5)     Polytechnics

This education was form for give a training for the students to support the economical and technogical development in Singapore. This education is a diploma program and the students can continue their education level to university and get bachelor’s degree in the third year.

6)     Singapore University

The university in Singapore has a mission to prepare their students for enter they workforce after they graduate. Now, Singapore has three local universities there are Nanyang Technological University (NTU), National University of Singapore (NUS), and Singapore Management University (SMU).

In short, The differences education system between Indonesia and Singapore is on the Pre-University. In singapore, before the students continue their study to university their must take the education to be able to take the university entrance examination.

Well readers, no matter how well the education system applied, will not change anything if there is no awarness from student to become more advanced. So lets improv ourself to be more intelegent and better person.

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