S’pore to continue with home-based learning post Covid-19

Pandemic or not, home-based learning (HBL) is set to become routine in Singapore, with schools setting aside several days every month for online learning. Minister for Education Ong Ye Kung, in his video address to school leaders at the Annual Workplan Seminar last Thursday, said that due to the pandemic, teachers, students and parents went through "an unexpected crash course" in HBL. But while recognising that HBL cannot be a substitute for school, where there is social interaction, the building of soft skills and values transmission, he said that HBL encourages more independent, self-directed learning, which is one of the most important lifelong skills. "The sensible thing to do is to complement classroom teaching with HBL, and make HBL a permanent and regular feature of education," he said.

Source: Reuters