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The University made significant headway in building up a presence in Asia and beyond. Our first research institute in China, the NUS Research Institute or NUSRI, was set up within the Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation Park of the Suzhou Industrial Park. NUSRI is the first research institute to be sited in Suzhou Industrial Park by a non-Chinese University. Slated to be completed end 2011, NUSRI aims to maintain a high-level research programme to champion research areas which are of strategic importance to NUS.
An NUS Incubation Centre housing NUS’ spin-offs and Chinese companies working with the University’s intellectual properties and start-ups will be established at NUSRI. NUSRI will also offer executive training programmes targeted primarily at the local professionals, managers, executives and businessmen. Through NUSRI, we hope to expand
the NUS research ecosystem and entrepreneurial landscape, as well as provide a strong foothold for other China initiatives. In addition, our Faculties and Departments will have a common platform to synergise their resources when engaging China.
Riding on China’s rapid economic growth, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School) linked up with the Chinese government to offer the Master of Public Administration and Management programme to their government officials and executives from state-owned enterprises in China. |
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Concurrently, the LKY School also secured the bid to provide the Executive Programme for the Leadership Development Initiative of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Programme of the Asia Development Bank to its eight CAREC countries – Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
We have also ventured into new and emerging markets to seek and create fresh global opportunities for our students. Apart from establishing exchange programmes at universities located in nontraditional destinations such as Mexico, South Africa, Poland and Hungary, we offered two new international summer programmes known
as Semester at Sea and the Mayan Route.
A shipboard global study programme, Semester at Sea is operated by the non-profit Institute for Shipboard Education in conjunction with the University of Virginia. Two NUS students set sail for the first time on the Summer 2010 voyage which stopped at Canada, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco and the United States. The Mayan Route is a four-week summer programme in the south of Mexico, where students attend lectures at the Tecnológico de Monterrey and learn about the
history and culture of the Mexican state of Chiapas.
In the period of review, the University signed seven Student Exchange agreements, bringing the total number of NUS student exchange partners to 3211. |
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| 1 As at 1 May 2010 and inclusive of university-wide and faculty-level partners |
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