I think that differences between the schooling system in Winchester College and Singapore would be the focus on all rounded development and class size. Singapore has being focusing on academics development from the past, where most of the time in school, teachers are rushing to complete syllabus to prepare the students for examinations. The education policy had changed which not only focusing on students academics but other aspect of development as well. The class size in Singapore is double or triple of the class size in Winchester College. Hence, the workload for teachers were heavier, and teacher would not be able to fully meets the needs of every students, considering a class of forty students. The school had tried to reduce the number of students in a class in view of such circumstances; I think that there are still rooms for improvement.
I think that an instant change from Cambridge Board-- GCE “O” and “A” level examination to a local examination board would not be suitable. It is because GCE “O” and “A” level examination is recognize international examinations that being use as parameter to help us gauge where our standard are. However, as our education policy changes, I believe that there is a need for us to review our examination system. While GCE examination is on academics base, Singapore is now looking at an all rounded development for our students, hence, to gauge a student’s abilities base on academics results would not be fair to the students. I think that if the local examination were to take place, it can consider segregating the examination system into examination base and non examination base. In addition, we should take into consideration the standard that we have to set in order to judge where our students stand internationally.