Tan and Gopinatha in "Education Reform in Singapore: Towards Greater Creativity and Innovation" talk about how the country's educational system is moving into the 21st century.
Singaporean schools have the mandate to foster creativity and innovation to enhance national economic competitiveness in the global economy. This is essential to help the country transition to a knowledge economy.
The three educational policy initiatives are i) Thinking Schools ii) Learning Nations and iii) Masterplan for Information Technology in Education.
Creativity and innovation are fostered by growing marketizantion of education through increased school autonomy and interschool competition.
Independet schools enjoy autonomy and flexibility for i) recruitment ii) deployment iii) reward iv) finance v) management and vi) the curriculum. The problem of these schools are high costs.
"Autonomous schools" were created to deal with the problem of high costs of independent schools. Although these schools enjoy less operating autonomy, the government also requires high quality at affordable fees from these schools' principals.
The policy "Thinkg Schools, Learning Nations" aim to i) explicitly teach critical and creative thinking skills ii) reduce subject content iii) revise assessment modes iv) put greater emphasis on process instead of on outcomes when appraising schools.
The problems of these policies are i) the government controls national examinations, and so set the indicators to assess performance ii) principals from independent schools have not moved from subject to research design currriculum because of the criteria of national exams iii) independent and autonomy schools are actually controlled by the government ideology of order and harmony and competition is not truly free iv) competition leads to schools focusing on outcomes that are relevant for public ranking.
http://www.apecknowledgebank.org/resources/downloads/SingaporeCurriculumReformCreativity.pdf
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