15 December 2017
The Ministry of Education has said that practices have been instituted to ensure that students’ physical and emotional well-being are taken care of while they take part in co-curricular and enrichment activities.
A spokesman for MOE said that instructors and coaches play a role in the students’ holistic development, and school principals have said their schools have stringent processes in hiring external coaches.
MOE has also been more stringent with the qualifications and quality of external instructors in recent years.
Since January 2015, instructors offering CCAs and enrichment programmes to schools have had to register with MOE.
From January next year, all MOE-registered physical sports CCA coaches in schools will also need to obtain at least a provisional membership with the National Registry of Coaches, a database of coaches who have been fully certified under the Singapore Coach Excellence Programme.