In June last year, food and beverage entrepreneur Edwin Lim was given the mammoth task of rebranding an eatery at Singapore Management University that had been struggling to pull in the crowds. Within just two months, he had to hire and train a new team for the restaurant, and come up with a new theme, [...]
Handling kitchen tools can be dangerous, and even experienced cooks often get cuts and burns. But if cooking is difficult for the able bodied, imagine what it would be like if you could not see the sharp knives and heavy pots every cook has to handle. That's where Project Folks comes in. It is a [...]
Singapore is in top place in the international rankings for education. But it wants the next upgrade of its school system to focus on keeping students positive and resilient. It was no accident that Singapore created one of the world's highest performing education systems in five decades. Reminiscent of the examinations for selecting mandarins in [...]
Teacher Tan Pin Pin fiddles with her mobile phone when the first class of the day starts at Edgefield Primary School in Punggol. For good reason though. In March, the school switched to a system that uses a mobile application to log pupils' attendance, instead of doing it on paper. All Ms Tan has to [...]
SIM University, recently renamed the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), is set to ramp up its full-time degree courses and places, with numbers rising from the current annual intake of 580 students to 1,000 in a few years. The university, which became Singapore's sixth autonomous university, will expand the number of places for its [...]
Ahead of their graduation, 60 per cent of the pioneer batch from Singapore's first liberal arts college have secured jobs or offers to pursue graduate studies. This was announced at Yale-NUS' first graduation ceremony, which was held on Monday (May 29) at the University Cultural Centre. Of those who have gotten job offers, a quarter [...]
Secondary 1 students Adbeel Yeo and Cruz Chan, both 12, from St Andrew's Secondary School collecting water from the Kallang River to analyse its acidity and dissolved oxygen levels. The sample Cruz drew had a surprising find. "The best part of today was finding a small fish in the water sample," he said. More than [...]
The former Pioneer Secondary School at 21, Jurong West Street 81, will see new life as a school offering affordable education to the children of foreign residents. The tender for its reuse will be conducted by the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) and Economic Development Board (EDB), which yesterday invited proposals from operators "interested in providing [...]
The Raffles Girls' School's (RGS) new campus in Braddell Road will be ready by the end of 2019, barring unforeseen circumstances. Responding to queries from The Straits Times, RGS principal Poh Mun See said that the new 6ha campus, which is bigger than the school's current Anderson Road plot of about 4.5ha, "takes into account [...]
From this year onwards, more polytechnic and Institute of Technical Education (ITE) graduates will have opportunities to work and earn qualifications at the same time, with the expansion of the SkillsFuture Earn and Learn Programme (ELP). Not only will there be more programmes from a wider range of industrial sectors, students can now apply for [...]
