Grooming graduates with an extra edge

An opinion piece by ST Senior Writer, Sandra Davie on the role of university education states, “While all universities must turn out graduates with deep knowledge and useful skills, they should also place as much attention on innovating and cultivating in them an X factor. Take SMU, which at its outset in 2000 introduced American-style admission, curriculum and teaching in Singapore. Four years later, employers receiving its first graduates noted an 'SMU difference' – they were more polished and well-spoken.”