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Seletar Institute (Chinese: 立德高级中学) was established in January 1988 as Singapore's second centralised institute. It began operations with 17 staff and 186 students in January 1989, at the former campus of Upper Thomson Secondary School at 14.5 km off Upper Thomson Road.
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 ...
In total, more than 1,000 students attended the auditions. [9] [10] [11] On 2 January 2008, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Lee Boon Yang officiated the opening of SOTA at its interim campus at 90 Goodman Road, with more than 200 students forming the inaugural batch.
There was a Committee to Upgrade LASALLE-SIA and NAFA, [5] which recommended polytechnic level government funding for both institutions and to establish an Institute of the Arts (ITA) at National University of Singapore in 2001 to conduct degree courses in the performing arts.
Following the government's plans to rejuvenate Singapore's art space, Lasalle began receiving financial support from the Ministry of Education.At Lasalle's 10th anniversary celebration in 1995, then-Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong remarked that Lasalle played an important role in developing artists and their audience in Singapore, and announced that the Singapore government would be ...
Curtin Singapore is the Singaporean campus of Curtin University, a public university in Australia. [4] It offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs in healthcare, computational sciences, commerce and communications with plans to expand to science and engineering.
TTRP was founded in 2000 by the internationally known director, playwright, and father of contemporary theatre in Singapore, Kuo Pao Kun, [3] and T. Sasitharan.It started operations as a division of arts charity Practice Performing Arts Centre Ltd (renamed The Theatre Practice Ltd in 2010), with seed funding from the Lee Foundation and Sim Wong Hoo. [4]
It is the highest and most prestigious award in the Masterplan of Awards framework in MOE, Singapore. In 2013, St. Joseph's Institution took in its first intake of Year 5 male and female students under the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP), with an inaugural batch of 80