The Singapore Management University has become the first institution in Singapore to be recognised as a partner of CFA Institute at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The two parties today inked an agreement formalising the collaboration.
The Lien Centre for Social Innovation at Singapore Management University (Lien Centre at SMU) has launched a new programme to grow effective management and leadership capabilities of leaders, senior executives and key administrators working in the non-profit sector.
- Read more about New SMU undergraduate and alumni-initiated scholarships given out for the first time
Generous contributions from both current undergraduates and alumni of Singapore Management University (SMU) in recent years have helped established three scholarships with total funds worth $260,000 with the 1:1 matching grant by the government. Today, these scholarships were awarded to four deserving, accomplished undergraduates at SMU for the first time.
The Singapore Management University (SMU) is honoured to receive a loan of significant artworks from prominent Indonesian art collector Dr Oei Hong Djien, as well as gifts of newly created pieces by acclaimed Indonesian artists Entang Wiharso and Nasirun. Dr Oei Hong Djien has generously loaned SMU 35 works by artists from Yogyakarta, the centre of classical Javanese art and culture and a hotbed for contemporary art and art education in Indonesia .
International friendships, independent living and greater adept in dealing across cultures – these were some of the invaluable takeaways Fung Scholars in the Singapore Management University (SMU) shared with Dr Victor Fung (冯国经博士) , Group Chairman of the Li & Fung Group (利丰集团), and Dr William Fung (冯国纶博士), Group Managing Director of the Li & Fung Group.
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More than 60 corporations and individuals have contributed a total of S$17.2 million towards the endowment fund for the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at Singapore Management University (SKBI at SMU). The Institute has met the targeted $17 million endowment in less than six months since it was launched in July 2008. Singapore Management University undergraduates and national sailors Mr Renfred Tay (郑稳铨) and Mr Koh Seng Leong (许圣隆) have each pledged a contribution of S$5,000 towards setting up a new SMU Sports Scholarship. This is the first time that a scholarship has been set up in a local university dedicated to recognizing outstanding athletes and supporting them in their undergraduate studies. The Singapore Management University (SMU) has established the new Yong Pung How Professorship in Law. This was made possible by a generous S$3 million endowed contribution by the Yong Shook Lin Trust. The late Mr Yong Shook Lin, who was himself a prominent lawyer, was the father of former Chief Justice Mr Yong Pung How. A new International Trading Institute has been established at the Singapore Management University (SMU), the result of a first ever tripartite collaboration between SMU, the International Enterprise (IE) Singapore and 14 industry players from the trading sector. IE and the industry players will contribute over S$5 million to kick-start the establishment of this institute. The UOB-SMU Entrepreneurship Alliance celebrates its second anniversary with a full-day boot camp for sponsors, clients and the local SME community to get together for a time of networking, sharing of ideas and listening to first-hand accounts from other SMEs which have benefited from the Alliance's initiatives and programmes. |