National University of Singapore

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National University of Singapore
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founding 1905
place Singapore
country Singapore
president Tan Eng Chye
Students 37,969
Employee 5016
Annual budget S $ 3.12 billion
Networks AUN , IARU , Universitas 21
Website www.nus.edu.sg

The National University of Singapore is a university in Singapore . Founded in 1905, it is the oldest university in the country and the largest in Singapore in terms of student numbers and courses.

It is considered one of the most prestigious universities in the world. The QS World University Ranking 2019 and the Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2018–19 show them as the best and second best universities in Asia and eleventh and twenty-third worldwide.

The university belongs to the university associations Universitas 21 and the International Alliance of Research Universities .

It is also very close to the National University Hospital , which has public access for hospital visitors.

history

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles as the namesake of Raffles College.

In 1823, the British researcher and founder of Singapore, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles , proposed the establishment of a college that would conduct both research and teaching. A petition from Tan Jiak Kim and non-European residents of Singapore to Governor Sir John Anderson took up Raffles' original idea. Then the forerunner of today's National University of Singapore was founded in 1905 as a medical school.

In 1928 the former medical college received an institutional addition based on the British model through Raffles College , which expanded the range of courses to include the humanities. During the Second World War, the university was occupied by Japanese researchers. In 1949 it was incorporated into the Malaysian State University . Efforts by Singapore for independence made the university autonomous again in 1960 - even before Singapore was formally independent from Malaysia in 1965.

In the 1980s, the university found its present form by amalgamating with the Singapore University of Nanyang to form a national university . As a result of the amalgamation of the two Singaporean universities, the English language was established as the language of teaching and research, while cultural and linguistic studies take place optionally in standard Chinese , Malay or Tamil - the three other official languages ​​of Singapore.

On April 19, 2019, an incident of sexual misconduct occurred at this university, in which the student filmed a male student. The defendant was suspended from the university and given conditional warnings by the police. Education Minister Ong Ye Kung said such punishments were insufficient and urged universities to review the guidelines. He added that other universities are also tightening security. The security of the bathroom is increased with covered entrances and more security guards. On June 10, 2019, the committee released even stricter sentences and set up a victim care unit.

Campus and Organization

The campus at Kent Ridge.

The academic year at the National University of Singapore is divided into semesters. Traditionally, the teaching is based on the British system of small study groups and the US system of credit points in modularized seminars and lectures. The university has 16 faculties known as schools , including a conservatory , these include:

  • NUS Arts and Social Sciences
  • NUS Business School
  • NUS School of Computing
  • NUS Dentistry
  • NUS Design and Environment
  • Duke-NUS Medical School
  • NUS School of Engineering
  • NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering
  • NUS Faculty of Law
  • Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
  • Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music
  • Yale-NUS College

The Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (YSTCM) is a cooperation between NUS and the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University . Singapore's first music conservatory, YSTCM, was established in 2001 as the Singapore Conservatory of Music. The school was renamed the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in recognition of a gift from the late Dr. Yong Loo Lin in memory of his daughter.

The main campus of the National University of Singapore is located in the south-west of Singapore not far from Kent Ridge and covers an area of ​​over 150 hectares. The Bukit Timah Campus is home to the Faculty of Law, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and numerous research facilities, while the Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore is located on the Outram Campus.

Outside of Singapore, the university has offices in Shanghai , Beijing , Israel , India , Stockholm and in Palo Alto, California . The National University of Singapore has been part of the renowned CEMS program since 2008 and, together with the University of Sydney, was one of the first partner universities outside Europe. In 2013 the Yale NUS College in Singapore, which specializes in liberal arts, was opened as part of a cooperation with the US Yale University .

The Symphony Orchestra of the National University of Singapore in Vienna (2013).

accommodation

NUS also has 7 apartment buildings (Eusoff, Kent Ridge, King Edward VII, Sweepstakes, Sheares, Temasek, Prince George's Park). It also has residencies in Kent Ridge View and Graduate.

NUS University Town

The NUS University Town (UTown) was opened in August 2011th It is located opposite the NUS Kent Ridge Campus and was built on the site of a former golf course. 2,400 students, 1,700 students and 1,000 researchers work, live and learn here in the immediate vicinity. There are four residential colleges: Cinnamon College, Tembusu College, College of Alice & Peter Tan, and Residential College 4 - originally called Cinnamon, Tembusu, Angsana, and Khaya. An Education Resource Center, a Stephen Riady Center and a Graduate Residence are also located here.

The Ridge View Residential College (RVRC) was officially established in April 2014 and is located in the former Ridge View Residences. It is the only residential college outside of university town. The low interconnected buildings are set against the backdrop of the Kent Ridge Forest and are visually characterized by their brick-clad exteriors, open courtyards, and historic trees. The site was the former location of Kent Ridge Hall until November 2002. As the college program gradually developed and the student community grew, construction began in November 2015 on a new building to meet the college's needs. The new outbuilding was opened in March 2017.

Computer Center

The IT facilities and the network are usually provided by the central IT department Computer Center . NUSNET is used in research, teaching, learning and administration. In 2004, a campus-wide grid computing network based on UD Grid MP was set up, which connected at least 1,000 computers. This will be one of the largest such virtual supercomputing facilities in the region.

NUS used Internet2 technology to enable distance learning. Students from Singapore and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were able to learn and interact in a virtual classroom.

Libraries

The NUS Libraries include eight libraries: the Central Library, the Chinese Library, the CJ Koh Law Library, the Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library, the Medical Library, the Music Library, the Science Library, and the East Asian Institute Library. The main customers include NUS and NUS affiliated research institutes, students, teaching staff, research and administrative staff and a large group of external members. The collection includes topics from the fields of architecture, construction and real estate, business, dentistry, engineering, computer science, humanities and social sciences, law, medicine, music, nursing and natural sciences. As of June 2017, there are 2,354,741 unique titles and 26,074 microform resources in the collection.

traffic

There are several internal shuttle buses that operate throughout the NUS: A1, A2, D1, D2, B1, B2, C, BTC1, BTC2, A1E, A2E and AV1. There are also plans to have the NUS monorail in the 2000s, but the idea has been dropped. The Kent Ridge campus can be reached by shuttle bus from Kent Ridge MRT station (CC24). The Bukit Timah Campus is located near the Botanic Gardens MRT Station (CC19 / DT9).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Getting Ready for the Future. In: president.nus.edu.sg. Retrieved April 29, 2014 .
  2. AUN Member Universities. In: www.aunsec.org. ASEAN University Network, 2012, accessed August 24, 2019 .
  3. QS World University Rankings 2019. May 29, 2018, accessed on April 18, 2019 .
  4. ^ World University Rankings. September 26, 2018, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  5. ^ Loo Lay Yen: Our Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors: a biographical sketch: NUS History. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 20, 2016 ; Retrieved April 18, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lib.nus.edu.sg
  6. ^ Loo Lay Yen: Our Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors: a biographical sketch: NUS History. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 20, 2016 ; Retrieved April 18, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lib.nus.edu.sg
  7. ^ Loo Lay Yen: Our Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors: a biographical sketch: NUS History. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 20, 2016 ; Retrieved April 18, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lib.nus.edu.sg
  8. NUS guy who filmed girl in shower suspended for a semester & asked to write apology letter ( en-US ) Retrieved on April 25, 2019.
  9. Tessa Oh: NUS opens new unit to support student victims of sexual misconduct , Today. August 29, 2019. Retrieved August 30, 2019. 
  10. ^ Yale-NUS prepares for first commencement . ( yaledailynews.com [accessed April 18, 2017]).
  11. ^ Si Wan Leow: August 2011 start for UTown at NUS . April 1, 2010. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
  12. About UTown . Archived from the original on April 3, 2010.
  13. Singapore-MIT Alliance: SMA :: About: Universities: Facilities .
  14. Library Statistics 2016/2017 . ocr. January 19, 2018. Archived from the original on January 20, 2018. Retrieved on January 19, 2018.

Coordinates: 1 ° 17 ′ 44 "  N , 103 ° 46 ′ 36"  E