آليات إصلاح التعليم في سنغافورة لتحقيق التنافسية العلمية (1979-1997م)‎

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The research reviews the mechanisms and strategies that Singapore used to reform its education system and access to scientific competitiveness, which enabled it to face the challenges of globalization in the twenty-first century, as reforming the education system is one of the concerns of the governments in all countries because it is responsible for the formation of the human element, which is the mainstay of achieving an economic and social renaissance and competition among the countries of the world.

Singapore has adopted a set of mechanisms and achieved a comprehensive reform based on quality that enabled it to keep pace with the growth of knowledge economies.

The World Economic Forum for the year 2014 put it in the second rank in terms of economic competitiveness, and the period from 1979 to 1997 was the most influential and the main reason for Singapore's reaching this place where this period witnessed many reforms and permanent reviews to the advance of its educational system, and these reforms began with an education system based on efficiency in 1979 aimed to enable students to reaching the maximum possible level of education, reduce the problem of dropping out of education, and develop students ’skills to comply with the new economic system at the time based on skills, Throughout the eighties, this system has undergone a series of well-planned changes until it has been restructured The system once again in the year 1991, and Singapore's approach at that time was to move away from providing a unified system for all students and replace it with a system based on educational tracks that creates multiple paths for students to improve the quality of the workforce necessary to achieve new economic goals, so the upgrading of education levels based on academic and achievement ability, The education system in Singapore is a selective system that does not breach all of its students to university education, but the educational level that students reach in this system depends on their creative thinking skills, capabilities as the education system provides them with opportunities and various pathways for students in order to make the best use of their capabilities and prepare them for the labor market.