Singapore, 8 January 2024 (Wednesday) – SMU has won the Innovation in Business Education Award at the 11th QS Reimagine Education Awards & Conference held in London in December 2024. Through 18 categories, the annual awards honour pioneering pedagogical approaches that boost learning outcomes and employability, as well as effective methods of teaching sustainability, with a vision to equip over a billion learners worldwide for their future endeavours.
Singapore, 6 January 2025 (Monday) – Singapore Management University (SMU) is pleased to announce key leadership appointments that will further strengthen its governance and strategic direction. These appointments underscore SMU’s commitment to delivering excellence in education, research, and community engagement.
Singapore, 23 December 2024 – Despite a common perception that public toilets should remain free, close to 1 in 2 Singaporeans expressed a willingness to pay if cleanliness could be guaranteed.
Against a backdrop of rising economic volatility, technological disruption, and climate challenges, Singapore Management University (SMU) hosted a high-level conversation featuring Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, President of the Republic of Singapore and Mr. Larry Fink, BlackRock Chairman and CEO. Moderated by Mr Piyush Gupta, CEO of DBS Group and Chairman of the SMU Board of Trustees, the dialogue attracted an audience of distinguished business leaders and academics.
The Singapore Management University (SMU) has secured a landmark $1 million gift from Aptos Foundation, marking its largest philanthropic investment in higher education and establishing SMU’s first Professorship in Blockchain. This transformative partnership not only advances SMU’s leadership in blockchain education and research but also solidifies Singapore’s position as a global blockchain innovation hub.
Singapore, 26 November 2024 – To address Asia's urgent demand for green finance expertise, Singapore Management University, in partnership with DBS, has launched Sustainable Finance in Action. The intensive four-day programme aims to equip senior executives with an in-depth understanding of sustainable finance concepts and be able to apply these learnings in their respective professions.
Singapore, 15 November 2024 (Friday) – Singapore Management University is proud to announce its outstanding achievements in the latest Financial Times Aggregated Research Ranking.
Singapore, 15 November 2024 – A new study from Singapore Management University (SMU) Lien Centre for Social Innovation (LCSI) revealed that sustainable fashion initiatives can improve recipients’ perceived wellbeing, happiness and sense of dignity.
The Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) has released the second edition of its Snippets Revelations series, offering fresh insights into career opportunities and progression within the accountancy sector. The publication is the result of a collaboration between ISCA’s Salary and Career Review Taskforce and The Singapore Management University (SMU).
The launch was announced by Ms Indranee Rajah, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and Second Minister for Finance and National Development, in her speech as the Guest-of-Honour at the ISCA Conference.
If you love running with your earbuds, you can up your game with a new piece of sensing technology developed by researchers at Singapore Management University (SMU) who have developed an innovative technology using in-ear microphones to monitor breathing modes.
The breathing mode monitoring system is called BreathPro, and is developed by a research team led by Assistant Professor Ma Dong of SMU’s School of Computing and Information Systems, with collaborators from the University of Cambridge.
