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The Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) is a private tertiary education institution in Singapore. Founded on 28 November 1964 by the Economic Development Board (EDB), SIM is registered under the Committee for Private Education (CPE). [1] SIM offers diploma, transnational undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and executive education ...
Both MPP and MPA students may choose to pursue a double degree with NUS Business School (MBA) [5] or NUS Law School (LLM). [6]As a member of the Global Public Policy Network (GPPN), [7] students from its MPP programme have the opportunity to enroll in a dual degree programme with either the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, London School of Economics, University ...
The Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS), founded in 1956, is the oldest non-profit vocational university for lifelong learning in Singapore. [1] It offers a variety of degree programs such as business management, engineering, fashion design, nursing, mass communications, psychology and hospitality management. [2] [3] [4]
The former Raffles College, the site of SMU's first campus. In 1997, the Government of Singapore began considering setting up a third university in Singapore. Ho Kwon Ping, a Singaporean business entrepreneur, was appointed to chair the task-force which determined that the new institution would follow the American university system featuring a more flexible broad-based education.
Aventis Graduate School is an international graduate business school based in Singapore.It was founded in 2007. Aventis offers postgraduate and doctorate degrees in collaboration with leading universities including Baruch College (City University of New York); California State University, Sacramento,Kingston University London, University of West London and Roehampton University in the United ...
Pranab Bardhan, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, author of texts in both trade and development economics, and editor of the Journal of Development Economics from 1985 to 2003. Kaushik Basu, professor of economics at Cornell University and author of Analytical Development Economics.
Founded in 1996 as the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), RSIS offers graduate education in international affairs and strategic studies, taught by an array of international faculty. The school is named in honour of S. Rajaratnam, Singapore's former Deputy Prime Minister who had also been its longest-serving Foreign Minister. [1]
The emergence of development studies as an academic discipline in the second half of the twentieth century is in large part due to increasing concern about economic prospects for the third world after decolonisation. In the immediate post-war period, development economics, a branch of economics, arose out of previous studies in colonial economics.