Plans are underway to set up a new Teaching Academy which will serve as a think-tank on matters related to teaching and learning. It will tap on the expertise of faculty members to advance educational scholarship at the University.

The Risk Management Institute, in partnership with Columbia University, will offer the world’s first Double Professional Degree in Financial Engineering in July 2009.

The Centre for Quantum Technologies will introduce a new PhD programme in Quantum Information Science in the Academic Year 2008/2009.

The University’s first international joint minor programme, a collaboration between the NUS Faculty of Science and the University of Toronto, will commence in the Academic Year 2008/2009.

The S³ Asia MBA, a double degree MBA programme with an Asian focus, will be offered in Academic Year 2008/2009. The MBA programme is the result of the S³ University Alliance established among NUS, Fudan University and Korea University.

NUS Museum has won the bid for Singapore to host the University Museums & Collections Conference in 2012. As a run-up to the event, it will hold a workshop on curatorial practices in October 2008, in partnership with other tertiary educational institutions in Singapore; and a regional workshop with university museums in Southeast Asia in 2010.

The Shaw Foundation Alumni House will be officially opened to welcome alumni and friends of NUS in the first quarter of 2009. Aspiring to be a “home on campus”, the iconic building will be a vibrant confluence of bonding, networking and lifelong learning.