Our Scholarships

MOE Mid-Term Teaching Scholarship and Award
  • Ministry of Education Mid-Term Teaching Scholarship or Teaching Award recipients can look forward to a fulfilling career in the Education Service. They will be given opportunities for higher responsibilities according to their abilities. The scholarship and award will be tenable for full-time undergraduate studies at local universities.

Requirements for MOE Mid-Term Teaching Award

Year 1 or Year 2 undergraduates pursuing courses in the local autonomous universities
  • Good character, keen passion for teaching
  • Good Co-Curricular Activities (CCA) records
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills
  • Good university results
  • Reading relevant teaching subjects at university

Year 3 undergraduates pursuing courses in the local autonomous universities
  • Good character, keen passion for teaching
  • Good Co-Curricular Activities (CCA) records
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills
  • Good university results
  • Reading relevant teaching subjects at university and proceeding to Honours with at least two academic semesters left at the point of application


COURSE OF STUDY
  • Languages
  • Humanities
  • Art and Music
  • Physical Education and Sports Science
  • Social Sciences
  • Sciences
  • Mathematics


VALUE OF AWARD

For Year 1 and Year 2 undergraduates
  • Sponsorship of tuition fees and other approved charges
  • Maintenance allowance
  • Developmental programmes during undergraduate studies (e.g. school attachment)
  • Sponsorship of approved student exchange programmes, summer programmes and CCAs
  • Be enrolled into the Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) teacher preparation programme at the National Institute of Education (NIE) as a salaried employee, after completion of first degree

For Year 3 undergraduates (for those proceeding to Honours with at least two academic semesters left at the point of application)
  • Sponsorship of tuition fees and other approved charges
  • Maintenance allowance
  • Development programmes during undergraduate studies (e.g. school attachment)
  • Sponsorship of approved summer programmes and CCAs
  • $6000 paid in 2 tranches (if the undergraduate is proceeding for his/her Honours year of study in the following semester at the point of award)
  • Be enrolled into the Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) teacher preparation programme at the National Institute of Education (NIE) as a salaried employee, after completion of first degree


LENGTH OF BOND

Recipients of the MOE Teaching Award are required to serve a 4-year bond.
Recipients will be required to go through the Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) course at NIE upon completion of their undergraduate studies. They will serve a 3-year bond after completing their PGDE course, concurrently with their scholarship bond.


APPLICATIONS

The application window opens on 9 September 2019 and will close on 6 October 2019, 11pm via Careers@Gov Ministry of Education – Teaching.
Deadline: Closed for this cycle