The school term next year for primary and secondary schools will start on Jan 2 and end on Nov 16, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said on Monday (Aug 14). The school year will start on a Tuesday as Monday (Jan 1) is a public holiday. There will be four scheduled school holidays - the [...]
The PAP Community Foundation (PCF) has opened its first childcare centre in a mixed-use development. The large centre, spanning close to 2,000 sq m and with a capacity of close to 300, was officially opened in Bukit Panjang yesterday. Classes have been running for a few months now. PCF Sparkletots @ Cashew is the latest [...]
Team Singapore beat defending champions England in the World Schools Debating Championships (WSDC) yesterday, after eight out of nine judges voted in its favour. This is the third time Singapore has won the high school-level competition. Its previous wins were in 2015, when the competition was held here, and in 2011 in Scotland. This year, [...]
The local universities are gradually accepting more polytechnic graduates into their medicine courses. At least 11 of them scored places this year in the medical schools of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). These numbers have grown since NUS' Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine took in its first [...]
It fits almost perfectly into the palm of an adult hand, and could even be mistaken for a plastic toy at first glance. But the small size of the compact Smart StethoScope (S3), a device invented by three students from Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP), belies its potential. The wearable device can help users with cardiovascular diseases [...]
Thirty-one students taking a Master of Business Administration programme jointly offered by the Singapore Management University (SMU) and an elite Spanish business school may have their grades for two particular courses revised. This comes after it was brought up that some students in the IE Business School-SMU MBA programme might have had an unfair advantage [...]
Yale-NUS College, which took in its fifth batch of students this academic year, has the largest intake to date, of 248 students. At this number, the liberal arts college, a tie-up between US Ivy League university Yale and the National University of Singapore, comes close to its original plan to grow its annual class size [...]
Pharmacy technician Izyan Hamizah Jaffar, 22, has been working at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital for more than two years, and wanted to upgrade her skills. Recognising her potential, the hospital signed her up for the SkillsFuture Earn and Learn Programme for pharmacy technicians - a one and a half year structured work-learn programme which will [...]
Yuhua Primary School students get the entire school grounds as their learning space. For Primary 1 and 2 students, they get to explore the school environment and learn about plants that grow around the campus. This hands-on learning experience is part of their outdoor education module in the Programme for Active Learning (PAL). The students [...]
To better align its courses with manpower needs and industry trends, Kaplan Singapore has set up six advisory boards in areas such as banking and finance, IT and project management. The boards, made up of 46 senior executives from various sectors, provide input to ensure that Kaplan's curricula are more industry-oriented. They do so by [...]
