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NUS has retained its position as eighth in the world and first in Asia, according to results of the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings (WUR) 2025.
Final-year Geography student Ting Wai Kit leverages his skills, industry connections, and rapport with the youth to help drive tangible change and promote practical conservation efforts.
The impact of seismic shifts in society – including the rise of technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and robotics, the move towards super-aged societies, increasing migration, and climate change on populations in Singapore, Asia and beyond – was the focus of discussions at the Population Association of Singapore’s (PAS) Annual Meeting on “Sustainable Population and Development in a New Era”, organised by the Centre for Family and Population Research (CFPR) at FASS and PAS from 16 to 17 May 2024.
Our third volume of Shaping the Story of Singapore is available as an eBook! Get it in epub format or PDF format. Shaping the Story of Singapore (vol III) is a compendium of selected grant-funded projects led by researchers at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. It features 32 projects …
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As the academic year comes to a close, final-year undergraduate students find themselves at a crossroads – having to decide between pursuing graduate education, securing a job, or exploring other paths. Some third-year students might even forgo the fourth year of undergraduate education due to personal reasons or due to ineligibility to continue in the …
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Undergraduate Sharifah Umairah Syed Idros Alhabshi (NUS Malay Studies) writes about the play ‘Pelita’, staged by the NUS Malay Language Society earlier this month — in Suria News Online.
Commentary on CNA Online by Associate Professor Chong Ja Ian (NUS Political Science).
Cross-national marriages have become commonplace in Singapore, making up almost a third of the marriages registered. The experiences of these cross-national families differ significantly from that of fully local families, with migrant spouses and children facing various challenges with regard to legal status, employment, and social and cultural integration. The difficulties of social and cultural …
India’s 2024 election has seen a significant shift in the political rhetoric of BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, says NUS Communications and New Media’s Dr Taberez Ahmed Neyazi.
From honing basic silat techniques to dabbling in the various styles of martial arts practised in Southeast Asia – such as kung fu and baguazhang from China as well as the Japanese sword-fighting art of kendo – students discover the region’s cultures and history in unconventional ways, in a course conducted by Dr Mohamed Effendy (NUS Southeast Asian Studies).