The Fund will provide for three programmes:
training opportunities to strengthen English language teaching in the
region, opportunities for needy students in our polytechnics and the
Institute of Technical Education to gain overseas exposure, and
scholarships for deserving students from Singapore and China to pursue
their undergraduate studies in Singapore universities.
The Ministry of Education will administer
the fund...
MOE and MOH have jointly agreed for NUS and
NHG to establish a new governance structure for the NUS School of
Medicine (NUS-SoM) and the National University Hospital (NUH)...
Under the new governance structure, NUH and
NUS-SoM will be repositioned as a joint operating entity. This new
NUH-SoM entity will be governed by one Governing Board which will
include senior members from NHG, NUS, MOH and MOE...
The Ministry of Health and the Singapore
Medical Council (SMC) will be including an additional 19 leading
international medical schools to the Schedule of the Medical
Registration Act with effect from 1st October 2007...
Included are 6 medical schools from China, 4
from India, 4 from Japan, 2 from Taiwan and 1 from South Korea. 2 more
medical schools from Europe have also been added...
Singaporeans graduating from any of the 159
international medical schools can also come back to Singapore, to
supplement the number graduating from our own medical schools...
The Ministry of Education (MOE) is
increasing the number of publicly-funded university places to cater to
30% of each cohort of Singaporeans by 2015...
The increase to 30% of cohort translates to
about 2,400 additional university places per year for Singaporeans.
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students who had been affected by the closure of the
University of New South Wales (UNSW) Asia have been
offered places by the three local universities,
National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang
Technological University (NTU) and the Singapore
Management University (SMU).
"76% of the
resident population aged 25 to 64 were employed, the highest since the
data was first compiled in 1991, up from 73% in 1996...
"12% or
172,000 of resident employees were engaged on term contracts in
June 2006 while the remaining 88% were permanent employees3. On
average, employees on term contract drew lower pay than those on
permanent appointments...
"The share
of degree holders almost doubled to 23% from 12% a decade ago..."
"The Third Committee on the Supply of Lawyers estimated that an
additional 140-150 legal professionals will be required each year
from 2010 until 2015 to meet the needs of Singapore’s legal
industry.
"To meet this number, the SMU School of Law will take in 90
students in AY2007, reaching a steady-state intake of 120 from
AY2008 onwards.
"The NUS Faculty of Law will also increase its intake from the
current 220 to 240 beginning in AY2007..."
"The new legislation aims to safeguard the
Government’s strategic interest in the university sector and
yet, give the universities the autonomy to be nimble and
responsive to the dynamic landscape...
"The NUS Bill also provides the legislative
provisions to transfer NUS’ property, rights and liabilities to the
successor university company, and will repeal the existing NUS Act which
establishes NUS as a statutory board..."
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