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Dr Susan Ang, Assistant Professor at NUS English Language and Literature, talks about the “randomness…involved” in her choice of career, and shares her approach to teaching and perspectives on learning.
A study by Professor Jean Yeung (NUS Sociology and Centre for Family and Population Research) and Shuya Lu (NUS PhD student) revealed that families with non-Singaporean wives and Singaporean husbands face the most socioeconomic challenges as compared to other households in Singapore. “New study sheds light on cross-national families in S’pore”, in The Straits Times …
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Opened in January 1985, St Joseph’s Home is Singapore’s first palliative care service. The then hospice had merely 16 beds for inpatient care but has since grown and taken care of the elderly for over 35 years. In this time, medical staff and care workers have offered their help and services to ensure the well-being …
For poet, educator, and current director of the Singapore Writers Festival, Ms Pooja Nansi (English Literature and Philosophy, ’04), a successful festival space invites the coming together of all people, no matter their backgrounds.
Professor Tan Eng Chye, NUS President, Professor Chen Shiyi, former President of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in China’s Shenzhen, and Professor Peretz Lavie, former President of the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) based in Haifa, discuss the contributions their universities have made to boosting the startup scene.
In the The Edge Malaysia Weekly’s opinion piece, “Against the Grain: The relevance of pre-modern Malay political theory”, Professor Syed Farid Alatas reflects on the lessons contemporary Malay politics can learn from its pre-Modern political texts. Prof Alatas refers to the Taj al-Salatin, a text from the ‘nasihat’ (counsel-for-kings) genre, which informed and shaped pre-modern …
What does a new White House Administration mean for the relationship between the world’s two biggest powers — and the countries in our region? Professor Kishore Mahbubani (FASS alumnus, ’71, Philosophy) looks at the complexities.
Today, more than ever before, students must be taught to make connections that cut across boundaries, such as those carved out artificially for reasons of administrative efficiency and disciplinary politics – between the arts and the sciences, and between the technical and the human.
As a university, we see ourselves as more than just a bridge to the world of work – we strive to inspire students to learn, and provide the environment for our students to realise their potential.
Today, more than ever before, students must be taught to make connections that cut across boundaries, such as those carved out artificially for reasons of administrative efficiency and disciplinary politics – between the arts and the sciences, and between the technical and the human.
During his ten years teaching in Singapore, Ungku Aziz taught many students who would go on to hold influential positions in newly-independent Singapore and Malaysia. Among his students is Emeritus Professor Lee Soo Ann, who has fond memories of Ungku Aziz’s lively and stimulating lectures on agricultural economics; Professor Lee’s graduating class of 1960 also included Dr Amina Tyabji, who was a faculty member of the Economics Department for many years, retiring in the early 2000s, and S. Dhanabalan, the second person to head Singapore’s Foreign Ministry.
Dr Rini Astuti and Dr Michelle Ann Miller (both NUS Asia Research Institute), along with Professor David Taylor (NUS Department of Geography and Asia Research Institute) comment on Indonesia’s shortcomings in meeting its 2020 peatland restoration target in Today. Their article, “Indonesia has not met target to restore peatlands that is key to prevent forest …