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Community
Issues - Compulsory
CIP for Schools
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Community Involvement Project (CIP) Programme for Schools
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Changes to CCA and CIP for university admission |
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"... it will no
longer be necessary to have a fixed CCA points system for
junior college (JC) and Centralised Institute (CI) students
applying to university from 2007 onwards. MOE will remove
the CCA grading system, PEARLS, for first year students in
JCs starting from this year. |
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"At the same
time, MOE will remove the minimum 6-hour requirement for CIP
for all students in JCs and the CI from this year. The CIP
scheme, introduced in 1998, is now a vibrant feature of JC
life..." |
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More..... |
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Monday with the Editor: Of pre-university students and CIP |
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"These boys from Maris Stella were busy running up to the
young and the old. You could see the eagerness in their
faces as they went about their task. Each approach was
energetic, and though some pedestrians did not donate, the
boys were not disheartened. |
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saw the same enthusiasm which gripped me as a secondary
student some thirty years ago when I was selling flags for
charity. These boys from Maris Stella were certainly not of
the same grain as the one who took the donation tin to lunch
with his parents..." |
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More..... |
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Excerpt of article by Jane Ng in Upfront
column of The
Straits Times of 11 Mar 2005 |
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"Compelled to do his bit for the
community last year, junior college
student Clement Auo was a Red Cross
Society Flag Day volunteer. Here's how he
spent that day. |
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"In the morning, he signed in,
collected the donation tin and charity
stickers. |
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instead of pounding the streets and going up
to strangers, he went home, dropped some
coins into the tin and took it with him to
lunch with his parents. |
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"At 5pm, he returned it to the collection
point... |
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"He was not the only one who got the points
without doing the work... |
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"It's feedback like that, showing how a
well-intentioned programme went awry, that
led to Education Minister Tharman
Shanmugaratnam's announcement on Wednesday,
scrapping it at pre-university level..." |
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