Singapore’s approach to regulating private education is both ambitious and demanding. The EduTrust certification framework, administered by the Committee for Private Education (CPE), sets rigorous standards across governance, academic quality, student protection, and financial management — standards that many PEIs around the region are only beginning to approximate.
The regulatory intent is sound: to protect students, raise institutional quality, and position Singapore as a credible international education hub. But the reality of implementation creates a persistent tension that every PEI leader navigates: the difference between compliance-driven quality and genuine quality culture.
This article examines how government intervention through frameworks like EduTrust shapes — and sometimes distorts — institutional behaviour, and what PEI leaders must do to build quality systems that go beyond tick-box compliance.
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Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse, September 2024.