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| Youth Sports Academies to be set up |
| 1 Feb 2010 |
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The Education Ministry, MOE, is setting up Youth Sports Academies or YSAs to provide centralised training for talented athletes.
They will target those at the Secondary, Junior College and Centralised Institute levels.
Senior Minister of State for Education Grace Fu said as the YSA is an extension of the Junior Sports Academies or JSAs, the sports offered in the YSA will be aligned to those in the JSA.
This will provide an articulated pathway for students' talent development in sports within the school system.
She was speaking at the opening ceremony of the Singapore Schools Sports Council's National School Games.
For a start, MOE will set up three academies in April, each catering to one sport.
The three sports are badminton, wushu and table tennis.
The hosts for the first three YSAs are Bedok South Secondary for badminton, Meridian Junior College for Wushu, and the MOE co-curricular branch for table tennis.
There will be three admission points for the YSAs, at Secondary 1, 3 and Junior College 1/Centralised Institute level 1.
This is to take into consideration late developers.
For the first year, the YSAs will cater to the students in Secondary 1 only.
The selection trials will be held in March.
The YSA programmes will be conducted after school hours. |