President's
Insights
NUS as a waterway:
Preparing graduates to thrive in the vast ocean
A university education in Singapore has to impart an ocean mindset.
Singapore is a city state. We have to make the world our hinterland,
our ocean of opportunities.
At NUS, we prepare students for careers in Singapore
and beyond. Think of NUS as a waterway. In our nurturing waterway,
students develop skills for the vast ocean. The ocean offers boundless
space for growth and abundant opportunities. We help students develop
critical and independent thinking, initiative and enterprise, resilience
and ability to adapt. In this way, they can discover their competitive
edge and take on challenges in the ocean.
NUS’ “no walls” culture:
Nurturing agile and inquiring minds
At NUS there are “no walls” to talent. We recruit talented
faculty and staff world-wide to deliver world-class education, and
to expose our students to global standards and perspectives.
There are “no walls” to ideas. In
an increasingly inter-connected world, ideas are not compartmentalised.
We educate our students to learn and think across disciplines. For
example, our life sciences curriculum integrates Biology, Chemistry,
Physics, Computing and Engineering.
There should be “no walls” around
minds. Students should see learning as an intellectual adventure,
moving from the familiar to the unfamiliar. They have to be bold
enough to question assumptions and established knowledge, to move
into unfamiliar territories.
NUS has “no walls” between creating
and applying knowledge. Students work with professors in research
projects and participate in entrepreneurial activities on campus
and overseas.
NUS’ living and learning environment:
Cultivating independence and resourcefulness
We have a diverse student community, including exchange students
from all over the world. With this diversity, the NUS campus is
a microcosm of a global community.
We are working towards giving all undergraduates
the opportunity to live on campus for at least a year. Campus living
and learning trains our students to be independent and resourceful.
Our students learn to appreciate different cultures
and will be ready for work in different cultural settings. Such
education gives our students an edge, to move into different careers
worldwide.
NUS’ global partnerships:
Enhancing educational opportunities
Just as we encourage our students to think global, NUS has to go
global. We have been building win-win global partnerships with leading
universities around the world.
NUS has taken leadership roles in global consortia,
including Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU). APRU is
a consortium of 36 leading research universities along the Pacific
Rim. Members include Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley, USC in North America;
Peking, Tsinghua, Fudan in China; Tokyo, Kyoto, Keio in Japan; Seoul
National; National Taiwan; Australian National.
This trans-Pacific partnership
brings quality educational opportunities for our students, as well
as enhances the market value of their NUS degrees worldwide.
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