SINGAPORE – During a dialogue with current Yale-NUS College students on Aug 27, concerns were raised as to how their school’s planned merger to form a new college – announced earlier that day – would have an impact on matters like study abroad programmes and post-graduate opportunities. Several current and former Yale-NUS students interviewed mentioned... » read more
Amid the Covid-19 gloom, there was some cause for comfort last week when the annual joint graduate employment survey was released. Overall, 93.6 per cent of graduates last year were employed in full-time, part-time, temporary or freelance work within six months of completing their final examinations – up from 90.7 per cent in 2019. Those... » read more
SINGAPORE – In this first of the askST series on university education, senior education correspondent Sandra Davie of The Straits Times responds to questions on university places for this year and the chances of polytechnic graduates getting into university Q: My son was supposed to go to Australia to study, but we decided against it... » read more