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Focusing on the theme "Building Relationships in Teaching and Learning”, educators at the Higher Education Conference Singapore (HECS) 2025 explored how to make higher education more engaging, collaborative, and joyful.
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At the NUS120 Distinguished Speaker Series, Professor Steven Chu called for a decisive shift away from fossil fuels, stressing that stronger international cooperation is needed to deploy the solutions at speed and scale.
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Clara Cher has spent her time at NUS exploring how the law can open doors for communities that are often unheard. These experiences have shaped her belief that meaningful change must be built with communities, not for them.
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Professor Ang Kah Wee from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Design and Engineering at NUS has been elected to the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) as a Fellow.
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Time banks are community networks where members swop their skills and services using time as a currency. With Singapore’s rapidly ageing society, time banks would be a useful additional support to existing social services and other formal approaches of care for older adults in their homes.
Psychology research suggests that the more we pursue joy as a goal in itself, the more elusive and fleeting it becomes. The writer finds this “happiness paradox” to be true, in relationships as much as in other areas of life.