The National University of Singapore (NUS) has been ranked the top university in Asia by the London-based Times Higher Education magazine for the third year in a row. Singapore's flagship university improved its scores in almost all areas, picking up extra points for its teaching, research, citation impact and knowledge transfer. It was followed by [...]
Students interested in a career in global trade can now learn and develop skills by taking up Ngee Ann Polytechnic's (NP) new full-time diploma programme. The diploma in international trade and business (ITB) will help students understand international trade practices and supply chain management, as well as learn skills in finance, purchasing and logistics. Developed [...]
About 600 students of the National University of Singapore (NUS) are attending a new course on how to map out their career and get the skills to land a job. Its introduction is prompted by the fast-changing nature of the job market which requires them to be nimble, the university’s senior deputy president and provost [...]
Primary 4 pupils in Singapore have emerged second in an international test that measured how well they can read, out of 58 territories. The results of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), released last month, also found that pupils here outperformed their peers in other countries in navigating online texts. Singapore pupils came [...]
A Nanyang Technological University (NTU) student may find himself riding a driverless bus, using drones to deliver parcels to friends or relying on robots to return food trays. That is what the near future may look like at NTU, which is positioning itself to be Singapore's largest "smart campus". In the nearer future - the [...]
Illustrations of HDB living and MRT travel, as well as desktop games created by local students, are part of new materials developed to teach pre-schoolers Chinese. The materials, designed by the Confucius Institute at the Nanyang Technological University (CI-NTU) for children from ages three to six, feature content and illustrations that are locally relevant. They [...]
A pre-school for early childhood students at Temasek Polytechnic (TP) to observe and practise teaching will soon stop operating, to some parents' disappointment. The Preschool Learning Academy, or Play@TP, will cease operations by the end of December next year, though the polytechnic hopes to find another operator to take over the centre. The centre currently has [...]
Students will be able to get their Secondary 1 (S1) posting results on Thursday at 9am, said the Ministry of Education (MOE) in a statement. They can access the posting results through any of the following channels: SMS text messaging, if their parents have provided a local mobile phone number during the submission of their school [...]
Tuition fees for students entering the polytechnics and Institute of Technical Education (ITE) next year (2018) will go up by between 3 per cent and 7 per cent. The revised fees, which were posted on the schools’ websites on Monday (Dec 11), apply only to newcomers in the 2018 academic year. The polytechnics’ term starts [...]
The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) will partner Duke-NUS Medical School to offer an SUTD-Duke-NUS Special Track to produce "clinicians who are adept at both practising medicine and harnessing technological advancements across disciplines". SUTD said these graduates would have the ability to treat patients and design medical innovations in fields such as healthcare [...]
