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Speakers ranging from urban practitioners and academics to government officials, grappled with concepts of national identity and community building across a series of panel discussions and presentations.
While the government is doing much for seniors, it makes sense to know what our specific adequacy goals for meeting seniors’ needs are, and what more could be done.
The HSS Faculty Research Fellowship (HSS FRF) provides release from teaching and administrative duties for one semester. The award may be held in either semester one or two, for work in Singapore or overseas. The fellowship is open to full-time NUS faculty members on tenure track. Preference will be given to junior and mid-career scholars …
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While the government is doing much for seniors, it makes sense to know what our specific adequacy goals for meeting seniors’ needs are, and what more could be done.
The Ministry of Education Tier 1 Grants, administered by the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, have 2 to 3 calls every financial year. The application is open to all tenure track faculty members and the grant supports projects in the social sciences and humanities with a total project value of below S$180,000 over …
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The Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act was passed by Parliament on 15 January 2019. One of the Act’s provisions allows repeat drug offenders who are without concurrent offences a chance for rehabilitation at the Drug Rehabilitation Centre. The Singapore Prison Service hopes that the enhanced rehabilitation measures for such offenders will lower the recidivism rate. …
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In ‘Move beyond “us vs them” differences and embrace heritage in building national identity: IPS panel’ (??? ??????? ?????, January 2022), Associate Professor Elaine Ho (NUS Geography) discusses how Singapore’s position as a cosmopolitan city affects its national identity.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 FASS Inspiring Mentor Awards!
Thanks to technology, in-depth experiences of faraway places are still possible despite COVID-19 slowing down international travel — as some 80 NUS students found out as participants of the latest, ‘virtual’, iteration of the NUS Study Trips for Engagement and EnRichment (STEER) programme travelled to Africa.