Singapore's plans to establish a fifth public university may be in doubt after Minister of State for Education, Lawrence Wong, said during an end of year speech that places could instead be expanded at Singapore's existing four high-quality public research-intensive institutions. The government will be supporting the expansion of Singapore Management University, Nanyang Technological University and a partnership between the National University of Singapore and Yale in the United States to set up a new liberal arts and humanities college. The new Singapore University of Technology and Design in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had its groundbreaking ceremony in November and is officially regarded as Singapore's fourth publicly-funded university.
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