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18% of ITE students drop out of class, but attrition rate going down
By Hoe Yeen Nie, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 12 January 2010 1742 hrs
SINGAPORE: Latest numbers show that 18 per cent of Institute of Technical Education (ITE) students drop out before completing their course.
This is an improvement from three years ago, when one in four failed to graduate - that is, only 75 per cent of the 2003 intake cohort managed to graduate.
Giving this update in Parliament on Tuesday, Senior Minister of State for Education S Iswaran noted that compared to overseas vocational institutions, the attrition rate was considered low.
He added that 69 per cent of dropouts do obtain a certification for at least one core module, and that ITE helps them return to complete their training at a later date.
New measures to boost ITE education were introduced in 2006 and Mr Iswaran said it was still too early to measure their success.
He said: "It's important that our ITE curriculum is dynamic, is able to not just offer a variety of courses, but a variety of courses that will command respect and currency in the labour market.
"And that's the objective of the exercise. The fact that 80-over per cent are able to complete their full course suggests that the calibration is about right." - CNA/vm
18% of ITE students drop out of class, but attrition rate going down
By Hoe Yeen Nie, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 12 January 2010 1742 hrs
SINGAPORE: Latest numbers show that 18 per cent of Institute of Technical Education (ITE) students drop out before completing their course.
This is an improvement from three years ago, when one in four failed to graduate - that is, only 75 per cent of the 2003 intake cohort managed to graduate.
Giving this update in Parliament on Tuesday, Senior Minister of State for Education S Iswaran noted that compared to overseas vocational institutions, the attrition rate was considered low.
He added that 69 per cent of dropouts do obtain a certification for at least one core module, and that ITE helps them return to complete their training at a later date.
New measures to boost ITE education were introduced in 2006 and Mr Iswaran said it was still too early to measure their success.
He said: "It's important that our ITE curriculum is dynamic, is able to not just offer a variety of courses, but a variety of courses that will command respect and currency in the labour market.
"And that's the objective of the exercise. The fact that 80-over per cent are able to complete their full course suggests that the calibration is about right." - CNA/vm
