23 October 2018
Alumni from the Singapore Institute of Technology will each receive $2,000 worth of credits which they can use for courses offered by the university’s lifelong learning division.
The courses could range from one-day masterclasses to short courses over a few weeks. Topics covered include health sciences, cyber security and data analytics.
The National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University have also launched similar schemes for their alumni.
Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing said graduation does not mark the end of learning.
“In the past, to acquire the latest knowledge, one would have to come back to school to take a diploma or to take a degree programme. But today, we need to couple that model of learning with something newer and faster, to meet the needs of the new industry development,” he said.