STUDENTS from three secondary schools will get a chance to learn about the media and make their own films in a new course to be offered at the O-level exams from next January.

A total of 60 Express and Normal (Academic) students from Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School, Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School and Singapore Chinese Girls' School have enrolled in the media studies course.

It is part of the second phase of O-level applied subjects, which came from the recommendations of a government committee formed two years ago. The committee was charged with looking into ways secondary schools could teach skills needed in a knowledge-based and innovation-driven economy.

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