Friday, October 7, 2011

Education 10:51 AM

The topic on increasing the number of unversity places in Singapore have been a hot spot after an announcement by Singapore Prime minister that unversity places will be increased by 2000 places and all will be given to Singaporeans. In today's strait times article by education minister, Mr Heng on unversity's places, it talk about an alternative way of route where students can't have a place in the local university for example private places like the Singapore Institute of Management Unversity ranking and research also topped the strait times. For example, in today's news as well, NUS fell in ranking, where NTU moves up 5 places by Higher times magazine. Last month, the release of the QS result, ranks NTU 58 place in the world university, which had an improvement of 16 places compare to the previous year. The honour also goes to NUS which had improve as well. Dean of college enginnering of NTU is also featured in the life section in the strait times on why she decided to come to NTU. Yesterday news on NTU going to be the furst to invent to smart robort that is first in the world, shows that NTU had move to a research base university.


So much so on our local university, higher education in Singapore such as private university namely SIM, MDIS and PSB have also been doing well. I am proud of my good friend who will be graduating with a first class honours in April 2012 from PSB in Electrical engineering. This is so in line with the education minister speech that mention that there are actually other routes if one is willing to put in the effort.

A sharing with a friend on Thursday 6 October, also allows me to have an insight on the differences in mindset of polys and JC students. Both have their interesting side but I believe that we just need to be responsible on our decisions would it affect us in the future. Last but not least, I believe success is not gain just by luck, but sheer hardwork and determination.