SINGAPORE : The University of Adelaide plans to make its campus in Singapore its second largest within two years. By 2010, its student numbers will be doubled.
The University made this announcement at a dinner on Friday. The event was held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its educational partnership with Ngee Ann Kongsi.
Professor John Taplin, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Adelaide, said: "The University has been involved in Singapore for 10 years. We have this partnership that has been operating successfully over the decade. And we think we're now ready to expand our programmes and our student numbers.
"We are based in Adelaide. We couldn't deliver the programmes in Singapore without having a partner here in Singapore that we could work with. Other Australian universities would also, I think, need a partner.
"Perhaps that's one of the lessons to be learnt from the UNSW (University of New South Wales) Asia experiment. There was no local partner and so perhaps they didn't identify some of the risks that are involved in setting up (a campus here)."
The newly-named University of Adelaide Ngee Ann is introducing new post-graduate programmes and research collaborations with Singapore. It aims to make its campus here a regional centre of excellence.
The University expects student numbers to jump from 456 to 900 by the end of next year. And it will recruit students from Singapore and other countries in the region.
Singapore is now the University's third largest source of overseas students. Most of them study in Singapore and this number is expected to increase substantially in the next decade.
Meanwhile, former Deputy Prime Minister Dr Tony Tan, who is the Chairman of Singapore's National Research Foundation, and an alumnus, launched the Singapore Adelaide Alumni Fund at the dinner.
The money will go to undergraduates who need financial assistance. Those eligible are Singapore citizens or permanent residents who are studying full-time at the University of Adelaide.
The Ngee Ann Kongsi has agreed to match every dollar contributed, up to S$250,000.
Australia is the top destination for Singapore students heading overseas for their higher education. Australia attracts 55 percent of Singaporeans studying overseas, compared to 19 percent in the US, and 18 percent in the UK. - CNA/ms
later become like the NSW.....pull back at the last min......now must be super careful..
i have never heard of Adelaide Uni in singapore. where is it located?
Originally posted by Melbournite:i have never heard of Adelaide Uni in singapore. where is it located?
i've been to their open house before..if im not mistaken, its near jln sultan there.....like what is reflected in the article, it is a joint venture between adelaide and ngee ann kongsi..
Originally posted by Melbournite:i have never heard of Adelaide Uni in singapore. where is it located?
Tank Rd? Tat being e case it's Teochew Bldg
yes...i think it is somewhere there .....
is it a campus? or just a building?
it is a building but they operate level 3 onwards.....but facilities there not bad ...
Originally posted by Melbournite:is it a campus? or just a building?
tat bldg belongs to Ngee Ann Kongsi for Ngee Ann Kongsi's and Teochew Huay Kuan's office. So it just uses available spaces
Tat bldg used to be where Ngee Ann College (Today's Ngee Ann Poly) & Tuan Mong High Sch was
Originally posted by Fs4751:later become like the NSW.....pull back at the last min......now must be super careful..
Same thoughts too. If it goes like UNSW, ppl are basically screwed.
Apparently their S'pore 'campus' focus mostly on Masters
it's old news been dug out... tis news is like 3 months ago one
yeah 3 months ago, by now should have some announcement..
Thx for the info...
Originally posted by sbst275:Apparently their S'pore 'campus' focus mostly on Masters
Surely they will offer more courses than that if they hope to become the second largest in singapore....(the largest being in adelaide i assume)
Originally posted by sbst275:Apparently their S'pore 'campus' focus mostly on Masters
most people cannot afford to go to Aus to do masters anyway, i guess if they offered everything, their rates may need to compete with the local Unis. Remember tey are competing with NUS, NTU,SMU for student dollars..
But i think there will be more courses...thats the only way they can maintain their presence..if else its a failed venture...
Originally posted by whiskers:Surely they will offer more courses than that if they hope to become the second largest in singapore....(the largest being in adelaide i assume)
yes the largest is in adelaide...btw if there is an existing campus, anyone has photos of it?
Originally posted by whiskers:Surely they will offer more courses than that if they hope to become the second largest in singapore....(the largest being in adelaide i assume)
I think it has to be done in a slow but steady manner
about 6500 (incl sporean and foreigners) will study in
Oz U here in 3 years!!
UNSW is just a lesson for higher education enterprises in SG---
can earn few bucks for u and me.
no need to paint the picture worse than the reality or better than
the reality.
UNSW is a extreme case and EDB suffers has been compensated by
UNSW.
I shall not just cite the bright sides here,just as opposition party
or their allies shall not just put the dark sides here.
Just tell the facts---more oz U are coming and doing really good:
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20080716-77122.html
JCU (James Cook)Singapore, which started five years ago with 50 students, soon faced the opposite problem of having to find a bigger site when its student numbers swelled to 1,200. It was occupying six floors of the Spring Singapore building in Bukit Merah.It is moving to a new 18,500 sq m campus in Upper Thomson Road next week, offering students more and bigger teaching rooms, as well as sports facilities. It expects to have 3,500 students by 2012.
Said Ms Sharmaine, who is looking forward to the new academic year in the new campus: 'Looks like UNSW had it wrong. It said Asian students will not want to come to Singapore to enrol in Australian university programmes. But look at how James Cook has grown. And there are other Australian universities coming in as well.'
She was referring to the Curtin University of Technology, which announced in March that it had partnered Australian education company Navitas to set up a campus here. The venture will be financed to the tune of $40 million.
The Perth-based university will occupy the former Institute of Technical Education campus in Balestier and start offering business degree courses to over 1,000 students before the end of the year.
It hopes to add more programmes including mass communications, nursing, engineering and design modules and enrol up to 5,000 students eventually.
Another Australian institution, the University of Adelaide, which operates out of Ngee Ann Kongsi's Tank Road premises, intends to double its intake to 900 by next year.
And Perth-based Murdoch University, which has been offering degree programmes at the Singapore Manufacturers' Federation's (SMa) School of Management premises in North Bridge Road, has spent $1 million to set up an international study centre there.
It said the number of Singaporeans doing its degree courses here has increased sharply from just 22 in 2004 to more than 1,000 and it plans to double this by the end of next year.
Oh thats nice. Can locals study there too?
The question is : is the course recognised by the govt?
Too many University destropy the quality of graduates. We must limit the number of graduates so that only students of good calibre can get into university. Otherwise , we will be like Phillipine, with lots of useless graduates that no companies want to employ.
I believe our govt will set quota for the size of intake, after all, they are excellent in planning education system in Singapore.
Originally posted by t_a_s:The question is : is the course recognised by the govt?
yes it should be, if its not, then wat is the purpose of offering it in singapore? Remember such a move to let in foreign uni to set up campus here benefits in some way for the govt as well, and these foreign uni are also attracting international students in the asian region as well. These unis are trying to make money i think becuase of the current aus i suspect less and less people are coming to study in AUS due to the notorious high costs in doing the courses in Aus. This is due to the labour costs in Aus and the tons of work legislations, protectionism of locals study rights which have caused high fees to be implemented in AUS for international students.
if i was not wrong, there was a news on the net stating os full fee paying places to be removed in commonwealth unis and if this happens, these unis will lose $$$.
Regarding the issue of whether its recognised in s'pore, there is no reason not to its because i know that defintely there are civil servants who studied in Aus uni working in civil service. There are no official figures on this to the best of my knowledge but i know they are surely taking. I think these graduates are from the top tier Unis or Group of 8
Originally posted by Mostwanted5125:Too many University destropy the quality of graduates. We must limit the number of graduates so that only students of good calibre can get into university. Otherwise , we will be like Phillipine, with lots of useless graduates that no companies want to employ.
I believe our govt will set quota for the size of intake, after all, they are excellent in planning education system in Singapore.
Too many graudates who cannot find jobs will destroy the Uni market but i don think it will destroy the quality of graudates. I dont understand how u can say Too many University destropy the quality of graduates But top quality Unis like Adelaide and Curtin will not. They have always maintained a world reowned presence.
as always its proper legislation, admission criterias and teaching quality which will matter, not how many Unis.