27 May 2015
The Ministry of Education (MOE) has said that it is (once again) considering a site in Bishan as an interim campus for students from Catholic High, CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ and Singapore Chinese Girls’ schools affected by the delay in the building of a new junior college (JC) that was supposed to take them in.
Parents had complained that the former Raffles Junior College (RJC) campus in Mount Sinai, which was chosen after the original interim site in Bishan fell through, was too far away. Hence, the MOE is now again reviewing options for holding sites that they had previously considered and that are closer to the Bishan area.
The new JC, which will start taking in its first batch of students in 2017, is being set up to accommodate mostly Integrated Programme (IP) students graduating from the three secondary schools – Catholic High, CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ and SCGS.
The delay in constructing the new campus that is to be ultimately located at Sin Ming Avenue and Marymount Road is due to the construction of the Cross Island MRT Line.