Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The National University of Singapore (NUS) was formed with the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University on 6 August 1980. [19] This was done in part due to the government's desire to pool the two institutions' resources into a single, stronger entity and promote English as Singapore's main language of education.
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. [1] The university along with the Nanyang Technological University are research intensive and rank the highest in global university ranking publications.
NUS-ISS ventured into large-scale Research & Development activities in 1985, securing a 4-year partnership with IBM Singapore for their support in developing NUS-ISS’s applied research capability. Later on, the NUS-ISS R&D Group spearheaded SingaLab in 1992, Imagine Lab (later renamed Pixaround.com) in 1996, and Star+Globe Technologies (later ...
An agreement was then signed in 2001 between the NUS and the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University to develop what was to be known as the Singapore Conservatory of Music. Dr Steven Baxter, former Dean at the Peabody Institute, was appointed founding director, [ 2 ] and Goh Yew Lin was appointed the founding chairman of its governing ...
The centralised institutes education pathway was first introduced in Singapore in the late 1980s with an education reform involving the pre-university education system. The establishment of centralised institutes as specialised centres for Commerce pre-university streams was in line with the creation of commerce and technical streams at junior ...
The Ateneo de Iloilo – Santa Maria Catholic School (AdI–SMCS) (simplified Chinese: 怡朗 亚典耀 圣母 学校; traditional Chinese: 怡朗 亞典耀 聖母 學校; pinyin: Yílǎng Yàdiǎnyào Shèngmǔ Xuéxiào; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Î-lóng A-tián-iāu Sèng-bió Ha̍k-hāu), is a private, Jesuit, Catholic, Chinese-Filipino Basic Education school run by the Philippine Province of the ...
Nanyang University (南洋大學) was a private university in Singapore between 1956 and 1980. During its existence, it was Singapore's only private university in the Chinese language. In 1980, Nanyang University was merged with the University of Singapore to form the National University of Singapore (NUS).
The Singapore Centre, the first in Southeast Asia, opened in June 2008. It is a partnership between the European Commission, the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and the thinktank, Singapore Institute of International Affairs. Its aim is to promote knowledge of the European Union and its policies. It organises ...