SINGAPORE: Four pairs of primary schools and five pairs of secondary schools will be merged between 2022 and 2024, the Ministry of Education announced on Wednesday .
"At the same time, population demographics have changed in the newer estates, leading to an uneven distribution of students across the schools," said the ministry. The merged school will be temporarily housed at Juying Primary School's current site, but will eventually move to new location in Tengah Plantation district from January 2025, said MOE in the press release.
"This means that from 2025 to 2026, the merged school will operate two campuses to minimise the need for their primary five and six students to commute to the new campus in Tengah," the press release read.As for Fuchun Secondary and Woodlands Ring Secondary, the rebuilding and improving programme for the latter was previously delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and will only be completed in 2023.
The education ministry is"very mindful" that a merger is"not the best thing that can happen to a school", addressing questions on multiple recent mergers for these schools.
Amidst debate about which school gets to keep the names, are those abandoned campuses going to be left there for more than 10 years without any planning yet again like so many other abandoned campuses, taking up precious property spaces and keeping prices high.
新冠疫情都一年了，很多事情还是不能恢复正常？