Summarized from ST
08 April 2015
SIM University (UniSIM) – the main university here for working adults – has drawn up a plan to bring university learning to the homes, offices and neighbourhoods of Singaporeans. From July, it will offer 186 modular, bite-sized courses to the public, on subjects ranging from company law to financial accounting and human resource management. Singaporeans can study for the courses at home, as much of the teaching will be conducted online. This will be supplemented with classes at the UniSIM campus in Clementi Road.
The modular courses that UniSIM will offer from July are part of the Government’s SkillsFuture initiative to encourage Singaporeans to develop specialised skills and adopt the habit of lifelong learning.
UniSIM, set up in 2005 to offer part-time degree courses for working adults, now has 14,000 of them enrolled in more than 50 degree courses. It also admitted 217 school-leavers into its first three full-time degree programmes last year. Students can take the new courses as stand-alone modules to gain particular skills, or take several related ones and chalk up enough credits to attain a degree.
Fees for each course range from $600 to $1,300, but with subsidies from the Government, students will pay less than half the amounts. They can use their SkillsFuture Credits – the training grants that all Singaporeans aged 25 and above will receive from next year – to offset the remaining fees.
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