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Taking place at the Kent Ridge Guild House, the dinner honoured the newly minted graduates and was graced by some 160 guests, from the graduates – including Honorary Graduate Professor Wang Gungwu – and faculty to members of the NUS Board, and NUS Pro-Chancellors Mr Po’ad Mattar, Mrs Theresa Foo, and Prof S. Jayakumar.
Speaking at the inaugural NUS Lifelong Learning Festival, Minister for Education Mr Chan Chun Sing called on Singapore’s Institutes of Higher Learning to work closely with industry to enhance their lifelong learning course offerings.
No one knows what the future holds, except that there is a vast and technology-driven world out there. NUS has done its best to prepare students for a digital, post-pandemic society — and done it well — through the introduction of game-changing tech tools and major reforms focusing on technology subjects.
The new initiatives, including tuition fee rebates and increased capacity in selected Graduate Certificate courses, will make it easier for prospective students to pursue postgraduate studies with NUS.
Professor Wang Gungwu (NUS History), Chairman of the NUS East Asian Institute and University Professor, was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize on 18 July, 2022. Home Is Where We Are, the second part of Prof Wang’s memoirs, is in the running for English creative non-fiction. The book was written with Prof Wang’s late wife […]
Professor Tan Tai Yong, whose previous roles at NUS include President of Yale-NUS College, Vice Provost (Student Life), and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, will become President of SUSS in 2023.
‘Mangrove jungle stock photo’, iStock/Joshelerry NUS researchers are pioneering innovative solutions for sustainability in light of Singapore’s Green Plan 2030. In Season 1 Episode 4 of Channel NewsAsia’s Innovating for the Future documentary series titled Environment, Associate Professor Daniel Friess (NUS Geography) discusses the value of mangrove forests in Singapore and Asia. Millions of people […]
Racial Harmony Day is held every 21st July in Singapore to commemorate the communal race riots of 1964, which risked inflaming racial tensions and tipping the balance towards even more widespread sectarian violence. A negative outcome from the 1964 riots would have undermined the necessary cohesion that formed the basis for post-Independence Singapore’s multicultural society. […]
In July 2020, Singaporeans came together to elect their Group Representation Constituency members for the next five years. General Elections 2020 (GE2020) was the first time elections were held during a global pandemic, but one thing remained constant. There were still no sweeping alliances among the opposition parties who contested the dominant incumbent party, […]
Gary Lau overcame his challenging childhood, having less than stellar PSLE and N-level results, being part of a street gang in his early teens, to graduate with a B.Soc.Sci. (Hons) in Social Work with the highest distinction on 7 July 2022.