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…
S-chips under the spotlight
Associate Professor Jeremy Goh says the findings where one in four Singapore-listed Chinese companies have been under an uncomfortable spotlight, are…
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…
Remembering Aids victims
The Singapore Aids candlelight memorial 2009 was held at SMU's Ngee Ann Kongsi auditorium last evening. The memorial was observed in more than 300…
Future Priorities Bear Repeating
The process to prorogue parliament or close the session may come across as more of a protocol than a practical step. Certainly, the Singapore…
Will there be a short-term policy shift?
SMU law professor Eugene Tan felt that the recent Aware saga has shown up another potential faulty line in society as Singaporeans become ?more…
Life lessons from Islamic banking
SMU final-year business management student He Zongying shares in this article the value of having taken up the new Islamic law, banking and commerce…