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This year’s edition of NUS Arts Festival features over 20 performances, films, public art, installations, and dialogues. It is also the first to return to pre-pandemic levels, and involves more than 700 NUS students, alumni, faculty, staff and collaborators, nearly twice of 2022 figures, and remains the largest performing arts event on campus.
NUS Open House 2023 saw a strong showing by visitors eager to find out about the University’s academic programmes, as it returned in from 25 February to 6 March. Some 7.71 million visitors attended the physical and online showcase which involved 3,071 faculty and staff, students and alumni.
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared that the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) had become a global pandemic. Within six months of the first reported case in December 2019, more than 9 million people were infected in over 200 countries and territories. Additionally, an estimated one in three individuals worldwide were […]
Community-based eldercare services (CES) form an indispensable part of intermediate-long term care services in Singapore. They reduce the strain on public hospital resources by providing community care and outpatient services. CES comprise centre-based, home-based, and residential-based services. They mainly serve frail community-dwelling older adults (OAs) who require assistance with daily needs, or supervision and rehabilitation. […]
FASS@CHS joins NUS Open House after a three-year break due to the global pandemic, featuring 8 panels and 17 department booths, drawing close to 14,000 prospective students and parents
Literature has found that women and children in blended families are more likely to have lower overall wellbeing. But there is a dearth of research on the impact of remarriage and stepfamily formation on the newly formed family in Singapore. It is questionable whether remarriage is always associated with greater social mobility and better welfare […]
In many wealthy economies, concerns about the exploitative working conditions to which migrant workers are often subjected have galvanised civil society action, leading to the formation of Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) which advocate for the rights of migrant workers. In Singapore, various NGOs had been campaigning for a day-off policy for migrant workers since 2003, culminating […]
Photo: ‘Reflections of a Garden City’ by Joshua Lim Chong Rui from SRN’s SG Photobank Calls for biodiversity conservation have entered the limelight in the past decade, with strong public involvement in discussions about protecting biodiversity in the Central Catchment Reserve and Dover Forest. Amidst concerns that land scarcity and housing needs will take precedence […]
Are financial incentives given by the government effective in boosting birth rates in Singapore? This is the central question in Dr Kelvin Seah’s (NUS Economics and Institute of Labour Economics (IZA)) piece, ‘Commentary: Parenthood Incentives – Singapore Cannot Keep Doing More of the Same Without Knowing Whether These Really Work’ (Channel NewsAsia, February 2023). This […]
Commentary: I am a Teacher and I Let My Students Use ChatGPT
On 30 November 2022, OpenAI announced the launch of conversational text generating artificial intelligence (AI) bot, ChatGPT. Since then, the educational landscape has been debating the utility and potentials, as well as the dangers, of similar technologies. Mr Jonathan Sim (NUS Philosophy) contributes to this discourse in his piece, ‘Commentary: I am a Teacher and […]