Tertiary Education
Students who completed their GCE O Levels may proceed directly to polytechnics. To enter university though, they must first pass their A Levels after studying for 2 years more at a pre-university. There are 5 polytechnics in Singapore, and 3 autonomous universities responsible for their own curricula.
Of the latter, the National University of Singapore illustrated here is the oldest, having been established in 1960 on the foundations of the Singapore Division of Kuala Lumpur University.