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AIEC Conference: Singapore In Focus
By
Mr Daryl Fong
Country Director
IDP Singapore
A transcript of the Country Briefing is available for your reference
after the presentation
40% of each cohort to get shot at local universities
Singapore will have 6 universities offering full-time degree
programs, giving 40 percent of each school cohort a shot at local
university education by 2020.
It translates to 16,000 undergraduate places yearly, up from this
year’s 13,000.
Additional places will be provided through the Singapore Institute
of Technology (SIT) and SIM University (UniSIM) which will
become Singapore’s 5th and 6th universities.
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Singapore – More universities places
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Panel looking at how many varsity grads Singapore can
support
Committee is considering whether Singapore’s economy can
support more degree holders.
Can the economy can generate sufficient degree-level jobs in the
future?
the kind of degree-level competencies that are required for these
jobs ?
how university places be expanded while maintaining quality?
Singapore – Universities Places
Singapore Institute of Tech : 5th varsity
Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), which partners overseas
universities will become Singapore's fifth university.
It should be practice-oriented and closely linked to industry.
It should also offer programs that combine work and study.
SIT, with its practical bent, could be a 'possible platform' for this
applied university model.
Singapore Institute Of Technology
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Singapore Institute Of Technology, SIT to offer 300 more places,
7 new degrees
Glasgow School Of Arts: Bachelor Of Arts with Honours in
Communication and design, Bachelor Of Arts with Honours in Interior
Design.
Wheelock College: Bachelor Of Science in Early Childhood
Educational Studies and Leadership.
University Of Glasgow: Bachelor Of Engineering in Honours in
Aeronautical Engineering, Bachelor Of Engineering with Honours in
Aerospace Systems
Trinity College Dublin: Bachelor of Physiotherapy and Bachelor of
Occupational Therapy
Singapore – Singapore Institute Of Technology
SIT’s degree courses a hit with poly grads
Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) is a hit with polytechnic
graduates.
Record 5000 polytechnic diploma holders vied for the 1300
places this year.
Last year, 4000 applied for the 1000 places offered.
95%, were diploma holders with some work experience. The rest
were A-level holders.
One in five of those admitted had a GPA of 3.5 and above, which
puts them among the top 15% of the polytechnic cohort.
Singapore – SIT Degrees
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6th University: UniSIM’s full-time courses will be flexible
“Pursue a degree full-time but enjoy the flexibility of part-time
study”
SIM University (UniSIM) hopes to offer its students when it rolls out
its full-time programmes in the next few years.
UniSIM’s full-time programmes are likely to be in the non-science
and technology areas.
This is to avoid overlapping too much with SIT’s programmes.
Singapore – UniSIM Degrees
Singapore University of Design & Technology SUTD
To date, SUTD has admitted 270 students (7%) out of 3700
applicants.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States and
China's Zhejiang University
SUTD intends to focus on specifically on engineering and design,
A different model of university education from those currently
available.
Singapore University Of Design & Technology
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Singapore – SUTD
All SUTD undergrads will get a chance to do research
340 undergraduates at the new Singapore University of Technology
and Design (SUTD) will be given the opportunity to carry out
research.
Move will provide more value for students already drawn to its
multidisciplinary curriculum and partnerships with two renowned
institutions
Setting up two research centers - on design and innovative cities
SUTD, SMU tie up to co-develop electives
From 2013, undergraduates from SUTD can take management
electives co-developed with SMU.
Modules on areas like entrepreneurship, social responsibility, and
organisation and people.
First SUTD graduate batch in 2015 stands to progress to SMU
master’s programmes in management or science in innovation.
SMU students may also get to take some SUTD electives
SUTD and SMU Tie Up
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Singapore – Liberal Arts
Give liberal arts a vocational slant
Traditional liberal arts education gives students a strong foundation
in critical thinking and the humanities.
Helps in personal growth and participation in free career choices but
not arm the students with knowledge in a tangible career path.
NUS is offering double-degree option that will improve career
prospects of students.
250 students enrolled annually may be able to combine their liberal
arts degree with a more job-specific qualification.
One in 10 offered place at Yale-NUS
One in 10 applicants has been offered a place so far.
40 per cent were shortlisted for interviews, though the
administration did not give exact figures.
College, which will open in July next year, was seeking 'risk-takers',
people with a 'daring streak' for its inaugural batch of 150 in August
2013.
Singapore – Yale-NUS
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Government to keep investing in polytechnics
Education Minister pledged the Government’s continued investment
in the polytechnics
9 in 10 polytechnic graduates in Singapore get jobs within six
months of graduating last year
Government will pump $7 billion over the next five years into the
polytechnics.
Singapore – Polytechnics
Polytechnics set for record intake
27,100 polytechnic places will be made available this year to cater
to growing demand from school-leavers,
Polytechnics took in 5,100 to 5,500 students.
Increase of about 1,000 places over the last few years and this year,
a record high.
Popular course like advertising, media studies and tourism still
face stiff competition.
New courses include consumer behaviour research, sports
coaching and business innovation and design.
Singapore – Polytechnic Intake
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Varsities, Polytechnics, ITE to raise fees
Singapore will raise tuition fees by around 2% to 7% for the next
academic year
Increases were due to the increased cost of providing a quality
education
Polytechnics and ITE, the fee increase will affect new and
existing students
Universities increases will affect only incoming students
University fees will have more frequent but smaller fee increases
rather than a hefty hike every few years
Singapore – Singapore Education Fees Hikes
Singapore – Private Schools option
Private school route to degree ‘an option’
Committee looking at ways to provide Singaporeans with more
university places - studying the private school route
Did not want to prejudge the outcome of the review.
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Over 100,000 Singaporeans seek degrees at private schools
More than 10,000 Singaporeans pursuing degrees and diplomas at
private schools .
Applications to local universities have exceeded 50,000 a year
since five years ago.
Private schools to save cost, spending between $20k to $40k in
total, as compared to $70k to $100k to study abroad.
Overseas universities also enabling many to upgrade their diploma
to a degree within two years.
New private school accreditation schemes put in place last year
have also given students more confidence.
Singapore – Singaporeans at Private Schools
Singapore - Economy
Economists lower growth forecasts to 2.4%
Singapore economy will grow by 2.4%, down from an estimate of 3%
made earlier this year.
The median forecast for inflation is now 4.4%, up from the previous
4.2% but it stood at lowest at 3.9 last month.
Singapore workers fear tough times
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Singapore - Employment
Unemployment, recession top concerns of students
Bread-and-butter issues were topmost on the minds of young
participants at the recent Pre-University Seminar.
More than half - 53 per cent - of the 500 teenage students cited fears
of unemployment and a potential economic recession as their
biggest worries.
Public spending on science R&D hits $2.5b
Public spending on science research and development (R&D) hit a
high of $2.5 billion last year.
Private injections brought the final figure for last year to $6.5
billion.
Total spending last year made up 2.14% of Singapore’s GDP.
Target is to rise spending to 3.5% of GDP by 2015.
Singapore – R & D Spending
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Healthcare road map unveiled
By 2020, 3,700 hospital beds and 20,000 healthcare workers will be
added
Doctors, nurses and allied health professionals – will go up by 50%
Workers will get about 20% more in the next three years
Training to produce 500 doctors, 2,700 nurses and 240
pharmacists a year
Foreigners will be recruited and Singaporeans working overseas
lured back
Singapore – Healthcare Map
Singapore will need more physiotherapists
Singapore will need nearly double the physiotherapists by 2015
Singapore has 800 to 900 physiotherapists, and will need 1500
within four years.
Few enter the profession here partly because no degree course is
available.
Nanyang Polytechnic is the only local institution to formally train
physiotherapists, takes in 80 to 100 students a year.
Singapore – Physiotherapists
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Increasing number of dentists here
More dentists will be trained in Singapore to meet the dental needs
of an ageing population.
National University of Singapore will increase its intake from the
current 48 students a year to about 80 by 2020.
Ministry of Health is also looking to have more specialities
recognised by the Singapore Dental Council.
Singapore – Dentists
Wanted: 11,000 elder care workers by 2020
By 2020, Singapore will need almost four times the number of people
to work in the elder care sector than it has now.
11,000 more workers in all categories – from doctors and nurses to
therapists and health-care attendants – over the next eight years.
Today, the sector employs only about 4,000
Singapore – Elder care workers 2020
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Singapore to have more climate specialists
Climate specialists numbers will increase because Singapore plans
to “develop capabilities in climate science and modelling”.
National Environment Agency (NEA) is setting up the Centre for
Climate Research Singapore within its Meteorological Service.
Singapore – Climate Specialists
Room for engineers to shape building sector
Engineers have great potential to help transform the local
construction industry.
They can help enhance the building ability of designs, and
consequently, raise productivity in the construction industry.
Construction demand was rising projecting total construction
demands this year reaching from $24 billion to $30 billion.
Singapore – Engineers
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Eminent engineers to form academy
An Academy of Engineering was launched to fly the flag for engineering
and related sciences, and promote its worth to Singapore,
Will also advise on engineering education.
Universities continue to produce about 4500 engineering graduates
annually – majority of top JC students preferred to go into medicine,
finance and business.
Government in its quest to raise productivity on an industry that plays a
crucial role in manufacturing – precision engineering.
These workers form 22% of Singapore’s manufacturing workforce.
Singapore – Engineers
$700m boost for Singapore aviation industry
Singapore’s status as a leading aviation hub entered a new phase
yesterday with the opening of a $700 million facility by Rolls-Royce.
Global engine giant’s largest facility in Asia, and the first outside
its home in the United Kingdom
Campus will add highly-skilled jobs to the economy – nearly all of
them going to local people
Expected to contribute about $1.7 billion, or 0.5%, to Singapore’s
GDP by 2015.
Singapore – Aviation Industry
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Singapore’s biomedical sciences push
Singapore’s biomedical push as part of a drive to sharpen the
Republic’s competitive edge and lead its transformation into a
knowledge-based, innovation driven economy.
Biomedical to become the fourth pillar of Singapore’s
manufacturing sector, after electronics, chemicals and
engineering.
A*Star’s investment in biomedical sciences R&D has grown
steadily, from $1.3 billion in 2000 to $2.3 billion this year.
Singapore – Biomedical Sciences
Push to groom cyber security professionals
Singapore is playing safe and growing a pool of experts to boost its
cyber space defence.
Singapore Infocomm Technology Security Authority (SITSA), which
oversees operational information technology (IT) security
National University Of Singapore, Singapore Management
University and Temasek Polytechnic will collaborate to develop
curriculum on operational IT security and conduct research and
development Projects
Singapore – Cyber Security Professionals
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Singapore – Accounting & Finance
Accounting, finance jobs aplenty
Jobs fairly plentiful for accounting and finance professional in the
energy, aerospace and medical devices sectors
Employers are likely to hire cautiously, in the oil and gas sectors
Constant demand for accounting and finance professionals in this area
Aerospace sector was also expected to hire more accounting and
finance professionals this year
Accounting firms will continue hiring
Leading accounting employers say they will keep graduate hiring
figures constant for the upcoming year.
Ernst & young is looking to hire about 250 graduates in May each
year. PwC is also looking to recruit 250 graduates next year.
Deloitte Singapore usually hires about 200 graduates every year
and this may remain unchanged next year. KPMG also plan to hire
about 200 graduates next year.
Accounting graduates can also expect to get jobs outside the big
four.
Singapore – Accounting
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Number of foreign lawyers to increase
One in five lawyers in Singapore comes from abroad – and the
number of foreigners practising here is set to rise.
More than 1100 are already registered with the Attorney-General
Chambers, nearly double the 579 a decade ago.
Boom in foreign lawyers has been fuelled by the Government’s
ambition to make the Republic a worldwide hub of legal services
Singapore – Lawyers
More switch jobs to teaching
Mid-career recruits are forming a proportion of the classroom
brigade, and staying longer .
They make up a quarter of the approximately 31, 000 teachers.
90% remained after 3 years as compared to around 85% for fresh
graduate recruits.
Ministry of Education is set to grow its teaching force to 33,000 by
2015
Number of mid-career teachers is likely to increase.
Singapore – Teaching
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Singapore – Social Work
Going all out to attract more to social work
With demand for social services increasing, there is a need to
attract and retain more social workers.
Currently more than 800 registered practitioners here, with
about 200 more places that need to be filled.
Professional development and career opportunities for social
workers.
Accreditation – to boost standards and status – was introduced in
2009.
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Enrolment Statistics
For Semester 1 & 2, 2012
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Where Have The Polytechnic
Students Enrolled?
(Statistics for Semester 1 & 2, 2012)
Enrolment from Polytechnic
Polytechnic Percentage (%)
Ngee Ann Polytechnic 28 %
Temasek Polytechnic 22 %
Singapore Polytechnic 21 %
Nanyang Polytechnic 16 %
Republic Polytechnic 13 %
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Institutions with the Highest Enrolment for
Polytechnic Students (Semester 1 & 2, 2012)
Rank Institution
1 The University of Queensland
2 The University of Melbourne
3 University of New South Wales
4 University of Western Australia
5 Monash University
6 Queensland University of Technology
7 RMIT University
8 University of Tasmania
9 Curtin University
10 University of Sydney
Most Popular Courses Among
Polytechnic Students (Semester 1 & 2, 2012)
Rank Discipline
1 Commerce
2 Science
3 Arts,Media & Communication
4 Engineering
5 Health Science
6 Environments
7 Tourism & Hospitality
8 IT
9 Psychology
10 Exercise & Sports Science
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Most Popular Institutions and Courses
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Rank Institution
1 The University of Melbourne
2 The University of Queensland
3 The University of New South Wales
4 Curtin University
5 QUT & RMIT University
6 Murdoch University
7 Australian National University
8 University of Adelaide
Monash University
Rank Discipline
1 Commerce
2 Science
3 Humanities & Social Science
4 Engineering
5 Health Sciences
6 IT & Psychology
7 Tourism & Hospitality
Media & Communications
Most Popular Institutions and Courses
Temasek Polytechnic
Rank Institution
1 The University of Queensland
2
University of Western Australia
3 University of Tasmania
4 QUT & RMIT University
5 Murdoch University
6
University of New South Wales
7 University of Sydney
Monash College
8 Swinburne University
Rank Discipline
1 Commerce
2 Science
Engineering
Media & Communications
3 Hospitality and Tourism
Health Science
Humanities & Social Sciences
4 Art and Design
5 Information Technology
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Most Popular Institutions and Courses
Singapore Polytechnic
Rank Institution
1 The University of
Queensland
2 Queensland University
of Technology
3 University of Melbourne
4 RMIT University
University of Sydney
5 University of New
South Wales
6 University of Tasmania
7 Griffith University
University of Newcastle
University of Western
Australia
Rank Discipline
1 Commerce
2 Architecture & Built Environment
3 Humanities & Social Sciences
Science
4 Engineering
5 Information Technology
6 Media & Communications
Most Popular Institutions and Courses
Nanyang Polytechnic
Rank Institution
1 The University of Queensland
2 Curtin University
3 University of Newcastle
4 University of Sydney
5 University of Melbourne
6 Monash University
7 University of New South Wales
8 Australian National University
Queensland Univeristy of Technology
RMIT Univesity
University of Western Australia
Rank Discipline
1 Health Science
2 Commerce
3 Science
4 Humanities & Social
Science
5 Design & Fine Arts
Media & Communications
6 Exercise & Sport Science
Engineering
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Most Popular Institutions and Courses
Republic Polytechnic
Rank Institution
1 The University of Queensland
2 University of Melbourne
3 Curtin University
QUT
4 Murdoch University
Rank Discipline
1 Science
2 Commerce
3 Humanities & Social
Science
4 Health Science
5 Media & Communications
Engineering
IT
6 Exercise & Sports
Science
7 Tourism & Hospitality
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Where Have The ‘A’ Levels &
IB Students Enrolled?
(Statistics for Semester 1 & 2, 2012)
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Enrolment from ‘A’ Level & IB Institutions
Rank Institution
1 ACJC
SAJC
2 CJC
3 NJC
4 ACS (I)
VJC
5 RJC
6 NJC
7 HCI
8 TJC
9 SRJC
TPJC
10 VJC
Rank Institution
1 ACS Intl
2 SJI Intl
OFS
3 ISS
4 Chatsworth
SAS
Most Popular Institutions and Courses
Rank Discipline
1 Health Sciences
2 Commerce
3 Social Science & Arts
4 Science
5 Foundation
6 Law
7 Media & Communications
8 Engineering
Design & Architecture
9 Environments & Education
Rank Institution
1 Monash University
2 University of Queensland
3 University of Melbourne
4 University of New South Wales
5 University of Western Australia
6 University of Adelaide
7 University of Tasmania
8 Trinity College
9 University of Sydney
10 Australian National University
Queensland University of
Technology
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States Total
ACT 22
NSW 201(3)
QLD 231(2)
SA 99
TAS 36
VIC 289(1)
WA 182(4)
Multi-State 15
Non-Attending Institutions 10
Total 1085
Applications Received from the previous June 2012 Open Day
Singapore best in Asia for higher education
Singapore has come out tops in Asia, according to a new ranking that
rates countries on providing higher education
Singapore took the 11th spot in the ranking of 48 countries and
cities, commissioned by Universitas 21
United States tops the list, followed by Sweden, Canada, Finland and
Denmark
Australia is at eighth place
Singapore – Singapore Education