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Ministry of Culture, Community & Youth
Parliamentary Matters

Tuition assistance from self-help groups

Sectors

Community

27 February 2018

Response to parliamentary question on students obtaining tuition assistance from ethnic self-help groups

Question

Mr Leon Perera: To ask the Minister for Culture, Community and Youth whether the Ministry will consider allowing students studying a particular mother tongue at school to obtain tuition assistance from the ethnic self-help group associated with that mother tongue even if the student does not belong to that ethnic group.

Response

  1. Senior Minister of State Sim Ann:The Government does not direct the Self-Help groups (SHGs).  Hence, it is not for the Ministry to allow or disallow students from obtaining tuition assistance from a self-help group of a different ethnic group.

  2. I understand that students, regardless of the mother tongue they study in school, are eligible to enrol for tuition programmes offered under the Collaborative Tuition Programme, a scheme that is jointly organised by the SHGs.