Students with disabilities admitted to IHLs

Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament

Ms He Ting Ru, Sengkang GRC

Question

To ask the Minister for Education for each year in the last five years, what is the proportion of students with disabilities admitted to (i) polytechnics and (ii) other Institutes of Higher Learning.

Response

1.MOE does not track the intake of students with disabilities at the Institutes of Higher Learning. Our data covers a wider range of students with special educational needs (SEN), which includes disabilities like physical and visual impairment, as well as learning and behavioural conditions.

2.Between 2019 and 2023, around 3% to 5% of those admitted to the polytechnics, Institute of Technical Education and Autonomous Universities were students with SEN.