4 of 5 SG unversities to be run by foreigners

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Professor Bertil Andersson
He was appointed Provost of Nanyang Technological University in April 2007.



I think it is not Ang Mor fault. NTU already have Ang Mor big shot since 2007 but this year ranking still drop like fuck. I think NTU need more Ang Mors to pull up ranking.

 

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Oct 19, 2010



NTU president to step down


Dr Su leaves important legacy after 8 years at the helm; he will stay on as professor


By Jane Ng

NANYANG Technological University (NTU) president Su Guaning, 60, will step down in June next year, after being at the helm for eight years.


He will be succeeded by the university's provost, Professor Bertil Andersson, 61. The new provost will be Professor Freddy Boey, 54, who currently heads the school of materials science and engineering.


Dr Su, who is credited with overseeing NTU's smooth transition to an autonomous university, had previously indicated his intention to step down after his term ends on June 30. Formally announcing his decision yesterday, the respected scholar said it was time to pass on the baton in the 'marathon relay' of building a world-class university.


'It will be difficult for me to put down a burden that has also been a joy and a source of energy over the last eight years. But renewal is a crucial stage in the life cycle of universities,' he said in a statement.


Dr Su, a President's Scholar and former chief of the Defence Science and Technology Agency, will stay on as a professor in the school of electrical and electronic engineering. He is leaving behind an important legacy, which included expanding the university's curriculum beyond engineering and science, and strengthening its ties with China.


Under his charge, NTU set up the school of humanities and social sciences, the school of physical and mathematical sciences, and the school of art, design and media. A fourth new school was later set up - the school of chemical and biomedical engineering - expanding NTU's engineering offerings before the establishment of a new medical school.


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[hokkienpeng]

I think NTU need more Ang Mors to pull up ranking.

This is in fact the very same conclusion of the superscale-salaried PSC-scholarship-winning twa-kee admin officers in MOE and ASTAR, after many, many months of collective brainstorming. If you cut through all the flowery crap in their speeches and reports, this is what they are saying too. Except of course they get paid half-a-million dollars a year to say this and they will probably win a public service award next national day for this amazing contribution. But yes, their recommendation is that NTU needs to hire more Ang Mohs to pull up its ranking.

 

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This is in fact the very same conclusion of the superscale-salaried PSC-scholarship-winning twa-kee admin officers in MOE and ASTAR, after many, many months of collective brainstorming. If you cut through all the flowery crap in their speeches and reports, this is what they are saying too. Except of course they get paid half-a-million dollars a year to say this and they will probably win a public service award next national day for this amazing contribution. But yes, their recommendation is that NTU needs to hire more Ang Mohs to pull up its ranking.

Last time many chee-blur service scholar always justify FT policy say if they not stay, they will have good impression of sinkieland and will think of us favorably when they are in important position.

Most of our powderful scholars are graduate from oversea on gahmen scholarship right? Maybe they are only doing what they preaching. Finally they are not double talking.

 

[redlightmeansgo]

Singapore isn't more advanced than the Western world when it come to innovation, invention and creativity.



In fact, all the technology we use to populate this forum with "wisdom" came from the white man.

Slippery slope argument and gross generalisation. Just because innovation and technology has come from the west does not make the generic white man a genius.

The Chinese invented paper, a contribution that forever changed human history and moved humanity forward. Yet by the same broad stroke of silliness, they reversed the progress of their own civilisation by giving vent to their intemperate lust for power and internal squabbles.

Western history is filled with examples of the same grand inventions and acts of stupidity.

The important thing is that, the white men who head the unis in Sinkie must have proven themselves in other systems of education.

One swallow does not constitute a summer. By the same token, never judge a man by his family's achievements.

 

[Cruxx]

Treat Sinkies like children and they will never achieve anything great. The anti-intellectual climate doesn't help either.

 

[redlightmeansgo]

Well, the powers that be are still reinforcing the canopy at the top. Whatever shrubs that will sprout from the ground will depend on the shafts of light that are filtered through.

 

[Cruxx]

Singapore has contributed absolutely NOTHING of significance to the betterment of mankind. It earned it's place as a "developed" nation by setting itself up as a tax haven for foreign multinationals. In recent years, it has turned to prostituting itself to foreigners in order to keep going.

Indeed. If we were to examine the richest countries in terms of GDP per capita, most of them are either tax havens or oil-rich nations. It's easy for small countries to become rich just by prostituting itself to the oligarchs of the world.