National University Singapore apec paper presentation_(27_jul_2011)

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THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE’S MISSION TO BE A LEADING GLOBAL UNIVERSITY

Prof Tan Eng ChyeDeputy President (Academic Affairs) & Provost

Aug 2011

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An Introduction of NUS – Some Facts and Figures

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• NUS was under the Ministry of Education’s purview; subject to Civil Service rules and operating procedures

• Primarily a teaching university, training graduates for the manufacturing sector

Pre 1990s

• Developed and intensified research activities

• Training graduates for the services and technology sectors,

1990s• Corporatized in 2006;

considerable autonomy and budgetary prerogative to pursue its goals

• Endeavours to be a global university

2006 and beyond

NUS’s Evolvement

• Large comprehensive university with 15 Schools and Faculties

• 26,400 undergraduates and 10,500 graduate students

• 2,300 faculty members; another 2.300 researchers

• Structurally comparable to many publicly or state funded universities• Fairly high student to staff ratios• Admits a sizable proportion of our

population (12.5%)

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What is NUS’s Global University Endeavour? Global vision

• Aspires towards global influence and impact Diverse faculty and student body

• A microcosm of a cosmopolitan global environment and outlook

Delivers an education that prepares students for living and working in a globalized world

Actively involved in research and knowledge creation• Thought leaders in various research fields

Continually innovating models of education, research and service• Contribute to international benchmarks and

best practices Key nodes in influential global networks

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NUS – The Global University Endeavour

Attracting Talent

• Top Faculty• Top Students

Excellence in Education

• Global Education• Broadbased Curriculum• Inquiry-based Pedagogy

Excellence in Research

• Integrative research clusters

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(I) Attracting TalentsQuality matters

Top Faculty• Recruitment

• KPI for Provosts, Deans and Directors

• Global reach• Merit based

• Development and Retention• Compensation is performance-

based, competitive and internationally benchmarked

• P&T assessment is comprehensive and stringent

• Potential successors for management positions are put through leadership development programmes

Top Students• Differentiated academic pathways to

maximize each student’s learning and potential

• University Scholars Programme• Interdisciplinary academic

programme for 180 talented students• Modelled after Harvard University’s

Core Curriculum Programme• Building a community of engagement

and intellectual stimulation• Global Engineering Programme

• Accelerated programme for top engineering students

• Students pursue their 4th year Masters programme at MIT or Cambridge University

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(II) Excellence in EducationNurturing the Talents of Tomorrow: Global Education for a Globalized World

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A Global Education

Over half of our undergraduates will have

an overseas education stinct

25% of undergraduates will spend 6 months or

longer in exchange programmes

7 NUS Overseas Colleges to immerse students in entrepreneurial hubs

20% of undergraduates and 70% of graduates are

international

50% of faculty members are international

NUS welcomes 1,200 exchange students from foreign universities each

year

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(II) Excellence in EducationMoving Towards a Broad-based Curriculum

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• 25% of courses taken by typical undergraduates are modules outside the student’s major

• 67 joint or double degree programmes• Residential Colleges at University Town

• Loosely modelled after the Oxbridge collegiate model, and other leading colleges

• Residential living and learning• Building communities of intellectual inquiry and

discourse

• Yale-NUS College to open in 2013• Landmark partnership between 2 universities with

distinctive strengths, to create a new model of undergraduate education for Asia

• YNC will draw on the best elements of liberal arts education from the West, but will reshape and contextualize the curriculum and collegiate experience for Asia

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(II) Excellence in EducationInquiry-Based Pedagogies

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• Redefining how theoretical and basic science are taught

• Problem-Based Learning at Duke-NUS Graduate School of Medicine and the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine• Clinical-based scenarios

• Design Centric-Curriculum at the Faculty of Engineering• Courses are built around a hands-on

project • Students choose projects from 3 broad

themes: Future Transportation Systems, Engineering in Medicine, or Smart Cities

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(III) Excellence in ResearchIntegrated Research Clusters

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• Supporting research broadly across disciplines, but also, to develop peaks of excellence

• Established 5 integrative research clusters (IRCs)• Finance and risk management• Biomedical science and translational clinical research• Ageing• Sustainability solutions• Asian Studies

• IRCs draw scholars from across disciplines to collaborate • Leveraging on wide and deep expertise• Multi-disciplinary analysis• Comprehensive approach to unravelling research problems

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NUS – The Global University EndeavourHow are we faring?

Fared well in international rankingsFared well under the Singapore’s Quality

Assurance Framework for UniversitiesOther Indications:

Department Visiting Committees Reviews by referees for promotions Etc.

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NUS will continue to develop excellences in education and research, while fulfilling its role as a state institution to educate a significant proportion of the national cohort to meet the nation’s manpower needs.

Thank you