EAGLES in E21CC

The Edusave Awards for Achievement, Good Leadership & Service (EAGLES) recognises students' leadership qualities, excellence in non-academic activities, and service to community and schools. Students awarded EAGLES will receive award of $350.

With effect from 2024, EAGLES is enhanced to also recognise students who have demonstrated Emerging 21^st Century Competencies (E21CC).

E21CC

E21CC comprise knowledge, skills, dispositions and values that enable a person to meet complex demands in specific contexts.

• Critical Thinking refers to the ability to exercise sound reasoning and metacognitive thinking to interpret and analyse information and evidence, draw conclusions, make decisions, and solve problems.

• Adaptive Thinking refers to the ability to apply learnt knowledge and skills strategically and with flexibility in different or new and evolving contexts.

• Inventive Thinking refers to the ability to frame, investigate and explore issues, generate innovative ideas, and evaluate them to form novel and useful responses.

• Effective communication refers to the ability to convey information and exchange ideas clearly and coherently through multimodal ways for specific purposes, audiences and contexts.

• Effective collaboration refers to the ability to work together in a respectful manner to share responsibilities and make collective decisions to meet shared goals.

• Information Skills refer to the ability to source for, select, evaluate and synthesise digital and non-digital information with discernment. It also entails ethical and responsible practices when using, sharing and creating information.

• Civic Literacy refers to the ability to understand the nation’s values, governance, context and realities, form one’s civic identity, and constructively engage with and contribute to one’s community and nation.

• Global Literacy refers to the ability to understand and think with discernment about world issues and interact responsibly and constructively with people from and beyond Singapore on such issues.

• Cross-Cultural Literacy refers to the ability to sensitively understand, appreciate and interact with different social, cultural and religious communities and their perspectives.

Eligibility criteria

1. Singapore Citizen

2. Attain a conduct grade of ‘Good’ or better;

3. Nominated for demonstrating E21CC by teachers, students and public.

4. There should be minimally 2 observations of nominee demonstrating the identified E21CC:

   • in different contexts (e.g., an observation in Math class, and a similar observation in CCA) or

   • over a period of time in the same context (e.g., observation of the E21CC over time in a school-based programme that all students participate in)

Nomination

Students and parents are invited to nominate eligible and deserving students via this link: https://form.gov.sg/68ab20b88f1c29e8370f225b

The closing date for nominations is 10 Oct 2025.