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Published by Afterschool.my on Oct 11, 2012, 09:05 am
The recent addition of two new universities in Singapore has caused ripples of change in the education sector. The city state's incumbents of higher learning education - National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have started tweaking their respective curriculums to produce graduates that meet tomorrow's demands and challenges.Last year, NTU raised its game by overhauling its curriculum. Its students are required to take 30% of courses from non-core disciplines. This enables them to pursue fewer modules, which gives them more time for collaborative learning and self-reflection.NTU Associate Provost (Undergraduate Education) Kam Chan Hin said the students are already reaping the rewards, with a larger variety of courses to choose from."They also have greater flexibility to design their curriculum according to their interests and strengths," he added.While NTU emphasises students' greater autonomy to design their own learning pathways, NUS feels that their generally flexible system is "not ideal".The present system, which allows students to pursue depth and breadth according to their interest and aptitude, is expected to change once they start introducing a new compulsory module in writing and communications for all its students.Prior to this, an NUS undegraduate could select modules without completing a module in writing, presentations or statistics. This would help students build strong interpersonal skills at the workplace.Other changes are also in the pipeline for its 10-year old General Education framework. A cross-faculty taskforce is now reviewing the university's General Education requirements. They are now looking at introducing a structured programme targeted at developing specific skills, said NUS Provost, Professor Tan Eng Chye.The proposed programme sharpens emphasis on developing multi and interdisciplinary perspectives as well as important career-relevant competencies such as critical thinking and reflection, communication skills and teamwork.Singapore Management University (SMU), meanwhile, is looking to change its curriculum to place more emphasis on out-of-classroom experience. According to an SMU spokesman, they are in the midst of a comprehensive review of their undergraduate programmes to augment key aspects of their curriculum across all six SMU schools, from course offerings to co-curricular activities.
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