Some Tuition Centres in Singapore

Singapore tuition centres are some of the most unpredictable establishments on earth. Send your child to one of them and he could either come out on the other side with a Harvard degree or have spent 6 months being “taught” by a “teacher” who probably needs to repeat primary school herself. 

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If you’ve ever hired a home tutor for your kid, you’ll know that half the time the tutor is actually a tertiary student trying to earn extra pocket money. Some of these tutors know their stuff but somehow can’t get your kid to understand it, while others are seen desperately googling the right answers on your smartphone throughout the lessons.

Many tuition centres offer the exact same thing that you would get from a home tutor, except in group form. These same tertiary students turn up with no training whatsoever and teach groups of students in a haphazard manner with the help of assessment books they’ve found lying around the centre.

So does that mean all tuition centres are a gone case? Not necessarily. There are some situations where sending your kid to a centre is more beneficial overall than paying extra for private lessons:

• The tuition centre has a superior teaching methodology or syllabus that it trains all its teachers in.
• The tuition centre is actually a one man show, and the tutor is so good he’s got enough loyal students to justify opening a centre.
• The tuition centre is highly selective in hiring and training its teachers, only accepting NIE grads, for instance.

Based on the above criteria, here are some tuition centres in Singapore that make the cut.