Internet survey shows more than half of this year's outstanding students want government scholarships
An internet survey by JobsFactory's Brightsparks site has found that 56% of students who excelled at the GCE ?A' Levels and the International…
Students launch pre-emptive strike
SMU director of undergraduate admissions Alan Goh pointed out that SMU takes into account a student's achievements outside the classroom.
Reining in excessive hedge fund leverage
Visiting Practice Associate Professor Bernard Lee contributed a commentary on choices which policymakers have to rein in excessive hedge fund…
Mapping out S'pore's economic strategies
The global economy offers both opportunities and threats. Singapore Management University Professor of Economics Hoon Hian Teck, outlines a few…
Dependable and Secure Computing
Research by Assistant Professor of Information Systems Gao Debin and colleagues provide new insights into dependable and secure computing. Their…
Efforts to promote arts are paying off
Incoming law student Eef Gerard Van Emmerik wrote about how impressed he was by the arts promotion movement in Singapore, having had a first hand…
Home advantage lies at core of location debate
Melvyn Teo, Associate Professor of Finance [and director of the BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre at SMU] said that managers of Asian hedge funds with a…
Getting stamp of approval now easier for business schools
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) opened an office in Singapore last week and universities and private schools…
Students, who continue to go to H1N1 affected areas, risk being infected. Students are worried, parents are concerned
One parent of a student studying at NUS wrote to the daily saying that as the university did not temporarily stop such trips, it was exposing…
Walking barefoot in aid of Sri Lankan children
Some 800 people gathered at Pasir Ris Park for the 5km walk to raise funds for poor Sri Lankan children. The event is organised by NGO Habitat for…
