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Tuesday, May 05, 2015

NTU to set up campuses abroad


Click HERE for article.
For those whom we discussed the essay qn below, check out these points in the article:
- NTU's effort in trying to address the problem of formal education by setting up a satellite campus abroad
-This excerpt from the article: "In a global marketplace, it's not good enough to prepare our students for jobs in Singapore. "Increasingly, companies are looking for graduates who they can send out of Singapore into the region or further away in uncharted territories to grow their businesses." NTU provost Freddy Boey said that to thrive in such an environment, graduates would need a "global mindset", which includes flexibility and openness to other cultures, the ability to navigate cross-cultural issues, and understanding of the nuances of operating in a different environment. "These are things that you cannot teach in a classroom," he said, noting that he often sees students transformed by their experiences abroad.
-NTU collaborating with another university to tap on each other's strengths

Qn:
1) Do you agree that formal education is unable to fulfil the needs of an increasingly complex world?
2) Competition, not cooperation, is the key to success. (CJC Prelim 2013)