Streaming of Students in Uplifting Pupils in Life and Inspiring Families' Taskforce Programme at PSLE

16 Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang asked the Minister for Education (a) for each year in the past three years, what percentage of students in the Uplifting Pupils in Life and Inspiring Families Taskforce programme are streamed into (i) Normal (Technical) (ii) Normal (Academic) and (iii) Express standards following their PSLE; and (b) if this data is not available, whether the Ministry intends to collect it.

Mr Chan Chun Sing: UPLIFT (Uplifting Pupils in Life and Inspiring Families Taskforce) is a multi-agency initiative led by the Ministry of Education (MOE) to enhance upstream wraparound support for underperforming students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The UPLIFT Community Network programme was piloted from 2020 and has expanded to cover about 900 students in 2022. This includes 45 Primary 6 students who took their Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) in 2020 and 2021. While 85% took at least one Foundation subject, 11% qualified for the Express Course, 20% for the Normal Academic course, 63% for the Normal Technical course and 6% repeated Primary 6.