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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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


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


Media & Communications


Temasek Polytechnic

Rank Institution


2

University of Western Australia


4 QUT & RMIT University


6

University of New South Wales


Monash College

8 Swinburne University

Rank Discipline

1 Commerce

2 Science

Engineering


3 Hospitality and Tourism

Health Science

Humanities & Social Sciences

4 Art and Design

5 Information Technology

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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


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


Nanyang Polytechnic

Rank Institution


2 Curtin University

3 University of Newcastle



6 Monash 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


6 Exercise & Sport Science

Engineering

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Republic Polytechnic

Rank Institution



3 Curtin University

QUT


Rank Discipline

1 Science

2 Commerce

3 Humanities & Social

Science

4 Health Science


Engineering

IT

6 Exercise & Sports

Science


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Where Have The ‘A’ Levels &

IB Students Enrolled?

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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


Rank Discipline

1 Health Sciences

2 Commerce

3 Social Science & Arts

4 Science

5 Foundation

6 Law


8 Engineering

Design & Architecture

9 Environments & Education

Rank Institution

1 Monash University

2 University of Queensland



5 University of Western Australia

6 University of Adelaide


8 Trinity College



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

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United States tops the list, followed by Sweden, Canada, Finland and

Denmark

Australia is at eighth place

Singapore – Singapore Education

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