Breakdown on Resignation of Teachers between First and 10th Year of Service in Past Five Years

3 Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang asked the Minister for Education for each year in the past five years, how many teachers resigned in their first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth year of service respectively.

Mr Chan Chun Sing: Over the past five years, the average annual resignation rate of teachers in their first 10 years of service has remained low and stable, ranging between 2% and 3%, with very low rates in the first two years as newly-trained teachers have to serve a bond, a slightly higher resignation rate of 3% to 4% among teachers with around three to five years of service, before stabilising to about 2% for the more experienced teachers. In general, the teacher resignation rates are lower than other schemes in the Civil Service.