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 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…
3 universities receive S$22m innovation grant to boost entrepreneurship
Prof Howard Hunter says one of the most important things is that the University Innovation Fund will help provide more opportunities for students to…
Outstanding young persons awards open for nominations
Speaking at SMU yesterday, Dr Fatimah Lateef, MP for Marine Parade GRC, hopes the awards can motivate and inspire more outstanding young people to…
More degree courses to be offered in polytechnics
Singapore's fourth university, slated to open in 2011, will take in up to 4,000 undergraduates and about 3,000 postgraduates, making it about the…
3 recent events show importance of harmony
Political observer and [SMU] law lecturer Eugene Tan said challenges to social cohesion are now more complex and pronounced as a result of the…
National Research Foundation sets up $50 million University Innovation Fund
President Professor Howard Hunter said that the university hopes to set up new entrepreneurship programmes and attract enterprising students who can…