SINGAPORE: For Anglo-Chinese language College (ACS) to hold on its mission, it must open its doorways to these outdoors of the neighborhood it has been comfy with, mentioned the college’s administration on Thursday (Feb 9).
In an inner letter to ACS alumni on the day that the Training Ministry introduced that faculty will admit ladies when it strikes from Barker Road to Tengah in 2030, the college’s administration additionally famous that some alumni could really feel {that a} co-ed college is a break from custom, since ACS has primarily been a boys college.
“This will be an opportunity for us to expand the ACS education and family to a new group of students, and a greater number of ACS (Primary) alumni will then be able to benefit as their daughters will now have access to an ACS education,” the letter learn.
An Anglo-Chinese language College (Major) that additionally admits ladies will permit the daughters of alumni to get pleasure from the identical privileges accorded to male college students, mentioned the college’s administration.
“The reality is that for ACS to carry on the mission that our founder Bishop Oldham set out to do, we need to open our doors to those outside of the community we have been comfortable with,” mentioned the college’s administration within the letter.
“There are also perceived benefits for future students as we aim to unlock learning opportunities for those we have yet to engage with.”
The selections had been taken with the college’s strategic pursuits in thoughts, the letter learn.
“For one, by serving the vital wants of the broader society, we’ll construct goodwill with our exterior stakeholders – an vital effort if we’re to navigate the quickly evolving surroundings.
“The changes will allow us to strategically review and reorganise our primary schools to respond to wider national trends such as low birth rates and more younger families moving to new and emerging estates.”
“WIDER CROSS-SECTION OF SOCIETY”
The brand new residential property in Tengah is more likely to have a various inhabitants comprising folks of assorted socioeconomic, ethnic and non secular backgrounds, mentioned the college’s administration within the letter.
“To that end, we strengthen our commitment to Bishop Oldham’s mission of serving the community and the nation by bringing quality education to a wider cross-section of society,” the letter learn.
The letter was signed by chairman of the ACS board of governors Richard Seow, president of the ACS Previous Boys’ Affiliation Lock Wai Han and bishop of the Methodist Church in Singapore Gordon Wong.
The college’s administration additionally dedicated to a city corridor assembly with dad and mom and alumni on Feb 22, to deal with considerations.
When ACS was arrange greater than a century in the past by Bishop William Fitzjames Oldham in 1886, it was unusual for ladies in Singapore to have a proper training, the college’s administration famous within the letter.
ACS has additionally progressively welcomed feminine college students over time into ACJC (junior school), ACS (worldwide) and ACS (Impartial).
“So it is not uncommon now to have the daughters of our alumni also enjoy the same privileges we have accorded our boys, as well as welcome the wider female population in Singapore.”
The brand new location at Tengah will probably be greater than 12km away from the college’s present web site at 50 Barker Highway, situated within the prosperous Bukit Timah residential enclave.
All Major 1 cohorts of ACS (Major) admitted to the college till 2029 will stay on the Barker Highway web site till they graduate. When the Tengah web site opens in 2030, it should settle for each female and male siblings of present college students of the Barker Highway web site for Section 1 admission.
From 2030, the college at Barker Highway will solely settle for male Major 1 college students who’re siblings of scholars at present finding out on the web site, mentioned the Training Ministry.
Cohort sizes on the Barker Highway ACS (Major) web site will progressively fall, the ministry famous. Tentatively in 2033, the college will consolidate with ACS (Junior) on the close by Winstedt Highway, and function beneath the ACS (Junior) title.
The brand new ACS (Junior) will then function from each campuses earlier than shifting all operations to the Barker Highway web site round 2039.
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