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A President's Scholar is a recipient of the academic scholarship awarded by the Government of Singapore annually, to pursue undergraduate education at a university, usually abroad. The scholarship is considered to be the most prestigious public undergraduate scholarship in Singapore awarded to students of Singaporean nationality .
President, American University in Cairo, 1963–1969, interim president 2002–2003; chancellor University of Alabama System, 1981–1989; chancellor State University of New York, 1994–1996 Jean Beetz: University of Montreal: Pembroke: 1951 Canada Puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada: Julien Chouinard: Laval University: St John's ...
Tharman Shanmugaratnam [a] (born 25 February 1957), also known mononymously as Tharman, is a Singaporean politician and economist who has been serving as the ninth president of Singapore since 2023. Prior to his presidency, Tharman served as Senior Minister of Singapore between 2019 and 2023, Coordinating Minister for Social Policies between ...
Queen's Scholar (British Malaya and Singapore) In British Malaya, a Queen's Scholar was a holder of one of various scholarships awarded by the Government of the Straits Settlements to further their studies in the United Kingdom . The first scholarships, originally known as the Higher Scholarships, were founded in 1885 by Sir Cecil Clementi ...
Robert H. Coats (B.A. 1896 U.C., visiting professor of statistics) – Canada's first Dominion Statistician. Herbert Marshall (B.A. 1915) – statistician, academic, Canada's third Dominion Statistician. Samuel Beatty (Ph.D. 1915) – mathematician and educator, Beatty sequence is named after him, 21st Chancellor of the University of Toronto.
National University of Singapore, with a history dating back to 1905, is the oldest university in Singapore. This is a list of universities in Singapore. The oldest university in Singapore is the National University of Singapore, which was established in its current form in 1980, but has a history in tertiary education dating back to 1905.
Alma mater. University of Singapore ( LLB) National University of Singapore ( LLM) Signature. Halimah binti Yacob DUT [1] (born 23 August 1954) is a Singaporean politician and lawyer who served as the eighth president of Singapore from 2017 to 2023. Halimah won in the 2017 presidential election in an uncontested walkover due to ineligible ...
Candidates Background Application result Tharman Shanmugaratnam: Tharman has served as Senior Minister, Coordinating Minister for Social Policies, chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, deputy chairman of GIC, chairman of the International Advisory Council of the Economic Development Board, and from 2001 to 2023 a member of parliament for Jurong GRC's Taman Jurong division.