Ministry of Education Language Centre

There are two campuses located in Bishan and Newton, which are managed by the Ministry of Education of Singapore.

The other main purpose of the centre is language enrichment and provision of grades back to the students' respective schools.

The focus on the additional examinations picks up for Junior College students, who take at least the GCE 'A' Levels at the conclusion of their course.

As the MOELC does not offer these, such students will have to find an alternative centre instead (see the list of schools in Singapore).

The aim of the two new Third Languages is to facilitate future Singaporean engagement with Indonesia and to open up bridges into the Middle East, the latter being one of the world's fast-growing regions.

The Ministry of Education decided to combine all the faculty and resources into one centralised building for greater efficiency in teaching students.

Thus, the bulk of the students are usually from elite secondary schools whose intake cohorts have a high mean PSLE score.

Officially, if a student is not a citizen or permanent resident in Singapore, he or she can only take Malay courses, although exceptions are common.

With effect from 2009, Secondary One to Four students offering French, German and Japanese need only attend lessons at MOELC once a week.

Students offering Malay (Special Programme), Arabic and Indonesian continued with the arrangements prior to 2009 until 7 February 2011.

JC H1 and H2 students offering French, German and Japanese follow arrangements prior to 2009; they attend lessons twice a week, each lasting 2 hours.

The introduction of the hypothetical 45 minutes of weekly e-learning into the curricula of the Secondary One to Four students offering French, German and Japanese has led to the abolition of e-learning weeks, formerly held twice a year, from all other curricula, including those of the unaffected Arabic and Indonesian, as well as the JC H1 and H2 French, German and Japanese courses.

From April to June 2020, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, lessons were solely conducted online, on the Student Learning Space and video-conferencing software.

The centre also has several IT labs, a multilingual library, and an auditorium that can be used for presentations, lectures and screenings of foreign language films.

Students who commit significant offences, such as vandalism, fighting, smoking or defiance, are referred back to their own schools for disciplinary action.