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Singapore Institute of Technology to increase its annual intake to over 3000 students

February 2, 2022 by Maths Statistics Science Tutor

02 February 2022

The Singapore Institute of Technology will be increasing its annual intake to 3,200 students by next year.

According to SIT president Chua Kee Chaing, the institution has received a total of 13,000 applications for about 3,000 places last year.

“We are the first university of applied learning in Singapore and despite being a young university, we are already the third largest by intake,” said Prof Chua.

Prof Chua also emphasised the importance of SIT’s close collaborations with industries that factor heavily into its Integrated Work Study Programme (IWSP), a trademark of an SIT education. Through the programme, students are attached to a company for between eight and 12 months, giving them a taste of working full-time.

Polytechnic courses are accepting students with broader range of abilities

November 9, 2021 by Maths Statistics Science Tutor

09 November 2021

More students with a broad range of academic abilities are taking up polytechnic courses. More students from the N-level track have gone on to pursue poly courses.

The polytechnic foundation programme, which started in 2013, allows Secondary 4 Normal (Academic) students to apply directly to polytechnics for a foundation year.

The three polytechnics, with the addition of Temasek Polytechnic, also said they had made offers to more students from the Institute of Technical Education over the past four years.

Similarly, over the same time period, Nanyang, Republic and Temasek polytechnics said they accepted a higher percentage of students with an O-level score of 15 points or lower.

Returning Singaporean students can apply for admission to local schools

July 9, 2021 by Maths Statistics Science Tutor

09 July 2021

Children of families relocating back to Singapore can apply to join local schools from July 7th.

Students who want to join secondary schools, junior colleges or the Millennia Institute for the 2022 academic year can apply through the School Placement Exercise for Returning Singaporeans.

Applications will be open to those seeking to enter Secondary 1 to 3 and Pre-University year 1.

Returning students will need to sit a set of tests to receive their school options. These students will receive their school options from MOE in December.

Changes to secondary school selection and tie breaking procedure

December 2, 2020 by Maths Statistics Science Tutor

02 December 2020

From next year, students taking the Primary School Leaving Examination will no longer see a T-score figure on their slips, but instead, they will be scored using eight bands known as Achievement Levels.

The indicative AL cut-offs for individual secondary schools will be released in the first half of next year, based on the results and school choices of this year’s PSLE cohort.

There will be some changes to the posting system and how ties will be broken if pupils have the same score.

Singapore citizens will continue get priority, followed by permanent residents and then international students, as per the usual practice.

The choice order of schools will also play a more significant role. A pupil who indicates a school as his or her first choice will now get a place ahead of someone else with the same score but indicates it as a second or third choice.

Strides made by National University of Singapore in embracing multidisciplinary learning

October 15, 2020 by Maths Statistics Science Tutor

15 October 2020

The National University of Singapore plans to merge its Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Faculty of Science to form a new College of Humanities and Sciences.

Students enrolled in the new college will take modules in different disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, science and mathematics. They will be provided with greater flexibility in taking up modules offered by both faculties.

Separately, NUS will offer 10 cross-disciplinary degree programmes from August next year to leverage synergies between complementary disciplines. Some possible pairings of complementary disciplines include economics and data science, computing and project management, as well as engineering and business.

To graduate, a student will need to complete 160 modular credits, the same requirement as that for a four-year Bachelor with Honours degree programme. This comprises 40 credits covering the fundamentals for each of the two majors, 20 credits on integrative projects involving both majors, 20 credits on general education, and 40 credits on unrestricted electives in any discipline.

National University of Singapore to establish a new College of Humanities and Sciences

October 7, 2020 by Maths Statistics Science Tutor

07 October 2020

The National University of Singapore has announced preliminary plans to set up a new college for students admitted to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Science.

Students admitted to the proposed new College of Humanities and Sciences would belong to both faculties and could take up any major and minor programmes offered in the two faculties.

They will have to enrol in 13 modules of common curriculum classes in the initial semesters, making up a third of their four-year education. These include new modules in artificial intelligence, design thinking as well as interdisciplinary modules on integrated social sciences and scientific inquiry to be developed by the college.

The university plans to admit its first cohort of 2,500 students into the college by as early as the next academic year. These students will be able to choose from a four-year honours degree programme in either the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Social Sciences or Bachelor of Science.

It is hoped that over time, the curriculum offered by NUS will become more broad-based and flexible, allowing students to take up classes from different disciplines.

Students returning from abroad can start applying for admission under the School Placement Exercise for Returning Singaporeans scheme

July 16, 2020 by Maths Statistics Science Tutor

16 July 2020

Singaporean students returning from overseas who plan to enrol in secondary schools or junior colleges here next year can start sending in their applications to the Ministry of Education.

They will apply under the School Placement Exercise for Returning Singaporeans (Spers) scheme, which comprises of a set of centralised tests for Singaporean students seeking admission into a local school after having lived or studied abroad.

The tests for those seeking admission to Secondary 1 to 3 will be held from Sept 22 to 24, while the tests for Pre-University 1 will be held on Nov 12. No tests will be conducted for students at the Secondary 4 and Pre-University 2 levels, as these are national examination years.

Applicants will receive their school placement results in December and will be able to join their school at the start of the first school term next year.

“MOE would encourage (returning Singaporean) children who are seeking a place in any suitable school near their Singapore residence to make use of MOE’s Assured School Placement service,” said a ministry spokesman. The Assured School Placement service secures admission for returning Singaporean children into a school with vacancies near their residence before they return. Students who make use of this service do not have to sit any centralised tests.

Singapore’s six government-funded universities are increasing the number of available slots for prospective students

July 10, 2020 by Maths Statistics Science Tutor

10 July 2020

Singapore’s six government-funded universities are offering around 2,000 more places to prospective students this year.

Some of the offers will go to Singaporeans whose overseas study plans have to be put on hold because of the global human malware situation. Local universities held a second admissions exercise in May to cater to this group of students.

Other spots have also been allocated to polytechnic diploma holders who had previously intended to join the workforce but are now opting to further their studies because of the weak job market.

Because of the additional effort made their year to increase the number of university places, the Ministry of Education said it expects the cohort participation rate (CPR) to increase slightly this year, by up to 2 percentage points, from the originally planned 40 per cent.

The MOE said that Singaporean students who are midway through their degree studies overseas, but who now wish to switch to studying locally, can write directly to the autonomous universities. Their applications will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. This includes a review of whether credit transfers can be granted.

Some students have indicated that they are planning to defer their studies by three to six months. They can sign up for continuing education and training modular courses offered by the universities during this period.

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