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 [...]
Aspiring chefs at the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) can now practise their knife skills and bake delicate pastries in a kitchen that is on a par with professional standards. The school yesterday unveiled a new bakery and culinary studio as part of a move to introduce more practical, skills-based curricula for people keen [...]
With their novel sunlight-activated larvicide, four students from Republic Polytechnic (RP) are turning up the heat in the fight against mosquito-borne diseases. Their project was among the 10 that were recognised with a Polytechnic Student Research Programme (PSRP) Award, given out in a ceremony at Ngee Ann Polytechnic's auditorium last Wednesday. Speaking on behalf of [...]
As part of its restructuring into the country's sixth autonomous university, SIM University (UniSIM) was renamed Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) yesterday. The new name reflects the university's mission of lifelong learning, anchored in disciplines with a strong social focus. Said Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) Ong Ye Kung on the change: [...]
