Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament
Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang, Nee Soon GRC
Question
To ask the Minister for Education for each year in the past five years, how many teachers resigned in their first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth year of service respectively.
Response
1. Over the past five years, the average annual resignation rate of teachers in their first ten years of service has remained low and stable, ranging between 2% to 3%, with very low rates in the first two years as newly-trained teachers have to serve a bond, a slightly higher resignation rate of 3% to 4% among teachers with around three to five years of service, before stabilising to about 2% for the more experienced teachers. In general, the teacher resignation rates are lower than other schemes in the Civil Service.