Foon Yew High School – Steeped in Tradition

Ask any Johoreans working in Singapore on where he completes his high school education. Chances are, the reply you will get is “Foon Yew High School”.

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One of the biggest school in South East Asia, Foon Yew High School (simplified Chinese: 宽柔中学; traditional Chinese: 寬柔中學; pinyin: kuān róu zhōng xué) has 6 cohorts and more than 8,000 students at any one time. It is fully autonomous and receives no funding from the Malaysian Government.

Subjects are taught in Chinese during the first 3 years of education here (初一，二，三) and for the Science stream, English is used as the teaching medium from the 4th-6th year (高一，二，三). Students generally continue their studies in Singapore (NUS, NTU, SMU), Australia and for the very best – The University of Malaysia (challenging due to the quota imposed on Chinese). Read on…

6 comments February 26th, 2009