Fourth university in Singapore to partner with MIT
Singapore's fourth university will eventually have an undergraduate population of 4,000 eventually, and about 7,000 to 8,000 with postgraduate…
Turning our varsities into entrepreneurial hotbeds
Practice Professor Desai Arcot Narasimhalu, director of SMU's Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, said the money from the University…
Lower cost degrees at home bring cheer to poly grads
Polytechnic students and their parents were pleased with the Government's plan to bring in more foreign universities to offer degrees tailored for…
MIT to help set up new university here
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will partner the Singapore government in setting up the country's fourth publicly-funded university, which…
Entrepreneurship at uni gets $22m boost
Entrepreneurship efforts at local universities have received a $22 million boost from the National Research Foundation. The NUS will receive $9…
Fourth university's collaboration with MIT will mean higher fees and admissions criteria than existing universities
Education Minister Ng Eng Hen said the context for the set up of the fourth university is similar to SMU's and will also share SMU's policy where no…
System must evolve with changing conditions
Assistant law professor Eugene Tan of the Singapore Management University says it shows that the Government recognises there could be pockets of…
Analysts agree S'pore's political system will evolve to adapt to changing needs
While Singapore needs to bring in a new batch of leaders in touch with the new generation, SMU Assistant Professor of Economics Davin Chor points out…
Study in Singapore
Jirote Horathai (Jay), a Thai student studying at SMU, says that Singapore is a much more cosmopolitan city, and students here are more competitive.
Beyond economic data: Softer, subjective indicators of a nation's well-being
In this article reproduced from Knowledge@SMU, SMU Assistant Professor of Psychology William Tov purports that trust and cooperation are hallmarks of…