Youths raise education, engagement issues at forum
More than 150 working youths and students attended a forum last night organised by PAYM to gather feedback on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's…
Singapore behind China in men's 400m swim
Despite coming behind China at 17th place in the Shenzhen games in the 4x100metre freestyle relay, SMU undergraduates Russell Ong and Zach Ong are…
TCS leads the BSE ?IT? space
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) recently collaborated with SMU to establish the TCS-SMU iCity Lab at SMU. TCS will initially directly invest $6…
More defaults on student loans now
In recent years, DBS Bank and OCBC Bank have seen an increase in defaults in both tuition fee loans and individual bank-funded education loans. Mr…
Is the online citizen riding into a cowboy town?
Asst Prof Eugene Tan defined ?cowboy towns? as ?a state of lawlessness reflected on certain blogs or Facebook pages, where there is nothing but the…
Expand varsity places, but not at expense of quality
Polytechnic principals feel that the Government's promise to add 2,000 university places will still be insufficient to meet demand as the majority of…
Four-corner fight inevitable
Assistant Professor Eugene Tan commented that all the presidential candidates believe they have their own supporters and riding on current sentiments…
Let political system be a connecting tool
An article by Eugene K B Tan, Assistant Professor of Law analysing the Prime Minister's National Day Rally speech. He suggests the PM could have used…
More places for Singaporeans in local varsities
In his National Day Rally speech, PM Lee revealed that the enrolment of foreign students in Singapore universities will be gradually reduced. In…
2,000 more uni places for local students
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced during his National Day Rally speech that 2,000 places will be added to Singapore's universities over the…