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What is National Education?

Find out how National Education equips students with the knowledge and values to understand Singapore's history, embrace their national identity, and become engaged citizens.

Last updated 13 August 2026

National Education (NE) was launched in 1997. As a significant aspect of CCE, NE comprises a wide range of school efforts that aims to:

  • Provide our students with the knowledge, skills, and values to understand Singapore’s history, realities and challenges unique to our nation, appreciate our journey to nationhood, cultivate the instincts for survival as a nation, and have confidence in our nation’s future.

  • Be empowering and aspirational allowing for individual sense-making, so as to nurture engaged citizens, who are socially aware, adept at critical thinking, and informed about local, regional, and global issues.

  • Help our students experience and explore their national identity as Singaporeans and foster a strong sense of belonging, reality, and hope which motivates our students to play a contributory role in their immediate communities and in the nation while they seek to achieve their personal life goals.