Tuition Assistance at Relevant Ethnic Self-help Group for Mother Tongue Language

Mr Leon Perera asked the Minister for Culture, Community and Youth whether the Ministry will consider allowing students studying a particular Mother Tongue at school to obtain tuition assistance from the ethnic self-help group associated with that Mother Tongue even if the student does not belong to that ethnic group.

The Government does not direct the Self-Help groups (SHGs). Hence, it is not for the Ministry to allow or disallow students from obtaining tuition assistance from a self-help group of a different ethnic group.

I understand that students, regardless of the Mother Tongue they study in school, are eligible to enrol for tuition programmes offered under the Collaborative Tuition Programme, a scheme jointly organised by the SHGs.