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The closed FB group Singapore Expats in Local Schools has done surveys of admission rates into P1 for this year (2016), and also of acceptance rates for the AEIS exam - which is compulsory for any child wishing to enter any later than P1. No more approaching schools directly. The results are grim. E...

According to a survey done by Singapore Expats in Local Schools, very few were accepted. No information is given - just whether your child was successful or not.

Very difficult for PRs to get their parents there, as far as I know. And even if they do, their access to medical and other services is limited and they don't get PR status themselves. (But don't really know) As far as kids of PRs are concerned, you would think they would want boys for National Serv...

Re entry into local schools: it's the kids' immigration status that matters, not those of the parents. There have been plenty of recent cases where the parents and older kids are PR, but the younger ones have been denied PR status, are still on LTVP, and have been denied a place for P1.

Can you return to your home country and maintain PR status in Singapore?

Agree. The 2011 election was a turning point. Since then, the government has had to do a lot more to appease the locals. But it's not easy to know what is going on in Singapore, with the Straits Times a mouthpiece of the government and the Opposition muzzled in all sorts of ways. Rules can be change...

Yes, expat packages are drying up. Singaporeans know that their birth rate is low and declining, so would oppose the building of new schools to be used by foreigners. Class sizes are also being reduced. As far as many expats are concerned, they believe that Singapore is a first world country, and as...

Yes, it is very bad and getting worse. Some people have left Singapore because of the schooling problem. Others have decided not to come. The expat websites seem slow to catch up with all this.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of expat parents whose kids were denied a place in P1 this year. Others were given places many kilometres away. No school bus, and school starts at 7 a.m. For those contemplating a move to Singapore, think very carefully if your company will not cover internatio...

The '''demonic''' Asian Koal; and how it seems to kick off at 5am. They can really get inside your head. No wonder they cull them in Pragmaticopore. I hadn't realized it until I looked up that YouTube vid, and, those birds are a species of cuckoo. Indeed. This coel doesn't have to bother making a n...

If you can't afford international school, the only feasible strategy is to find out which schools had the most vacancies for Phase 3 for Primary 1 this year. This doesn't vary too much from year to year. You do this by joining the Kiasu Parents forum. (Kiasu means "pushy".) Look at the section at th...

See . for rentals. If you have kids, unless you can negotiate an education package for international school, you will have a big problem.

It is getting very difficult for expats to place their kids in local schools. The areas in which expats like to live are particularly bad. No one knows the statistics because the government releases no information. As a rough guess, at least a third of the parents who applied this year have been rej...