Introduction

Overview

This project aims to explore the impact of the merger on the equity of access to Primary Schools across Singapore. Due to the recent merger of schools shown here, we wanted to explore its impact on Singaporeans, and decided to narrow our search to Primary Schools only.

Project Motivation

We are interested in how mergers of education institutions affect the equity of access. With the increasing ageing population and lower birthrates in Singapore, more mergers of schools will be conducted between 2022 and 2025. This would directly affect the priority admission for primary school registration exercises as it takes into account the distance between the school and the residential building. This distance would be a buffer of 1km - 2km of the school.

Scope of work

In this project, we aim to focus on Primary Schools by analysing how the distance from a residential building to the nearest primary school has been affected. By scoping to primary schools, we plan to have an in-depth analysis on the impact of mergers on equity of access.

Project Objectives

Objective 1

Understand the change in distance between residential buildings and primary schools before and after the mergers in 2019. This will be done using the following methods:

  • Analytical hexagons

  • Distance matrix analysis using vector-based GIS

Objective 2

Understand future population changes in Singapore, which may be used for future primary school mergers. This will be done using the choropleth map to visualise the percentage change in population of primary school children by subzone from 2017 to 2017.

Project Tasks

The project Tasks are as follows:

  1. Explore the available literature
  2. Obtain Pre-Merger Data
  3. Obtain Post-Merger Data
  4. Understand the Impacts of Primary School Merger on Accessibility
  5. Identify Top Affected Areas
  6. Propose potential on how to minimize impacts

Data

  1. Geofabrik
  2. Singstat.gov.sg
  3. Data.gov.sg

Project Schedule - Gannt Chart