To broaden perspectives and instill cross-cultural skills in a greater number of its students, NUS plans to send more undergraduates on overseas learning stints. It hopes that, by 2015, at least 2,000 of its undergraduates will have some form of overseas exposure by graduation, with about three in 10 doing student exchange programmes. At SMU, about four out of five students would have had “some form of global exposure” by graduation, and the university is working to make that 100 per cent in three to five years’ time. This would be done through international student exchanges, business-cultural study visits, overseas community service, overseas internships, co-curricular activities, as well as business side missions. At NTU, “one in two students” have overseas exposure and the university hopes to raise this figure to seven in 10 through work-study and research programmes, international competitions and conferences, and other options, such as the university’s Short Overseas Journalism programme.