The impact of small class sizes

Jia Jie teaching Chinese calligraphy to the schools only pupil, Thomas.

Low enrolment schools will not be closed although the Education Ministry is looking at merging some classrooms to help manage costs if relocation is not an option.

SCHOOL classrooms are meant to have teachers teaching large groups of students. And by and large, having many teachers and students in the same compound is the norm for 80% of the 10,000 government schools in the country.