More time to teach values

IN THE next few years, schools will set aside two hours a week to make confident learners and active citizens out of their students.

How this is done will be left to the schools, but teachers will have to find ways to engage their students in lessons that have little to do with reading, writing or counting.

These enriched art and music programmes are distinct from the more in-depth Art and Music Elective Programmes, the curricula for which go beyond the O-levels.

On the programme to provide a 'values-based' education, Education Minister Dr Ng Eng Hen said, 'Only the right values can shape positive character and committed citizenship in moulding the future of our nation.' MORE