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03 July 2019

In this year’s Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Top 50 Under 50 league rankings, Nanyang Technological University has been ranked the world’s best young university for the sixth straight year.

NTU’s biggest improvements were in the areas of academic reputation, research citations per faculty and employer reputation.

QS research director Ben Sowter said NTU has “catapulted its way to the top tier of global higher education”, adding: “NTU has been bolstered by strong support from the Singaporean Government, who are reaping the rewards of recognising the value of concerted research investment and international faculty recruitment.”

Last month, NTU was ranked joint-11th with the National University of Singapore in the QS World University Rankings.

30 June 2019

The recently published Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings showed that the efforts of the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University in furthering research and education excellence are gradually being recognised.

NTU received higher scores than NUS in faculty-to-student ratio and citations per faculty, an indicator of institutional research impact. However, NUS is more well-known among academics and employers than NTU, staying at 11th in the world for academic reputation with a score of 99.8, based on responses from over 94,000 academics.

An NTU spokesman said that along with the appointment of Professor Subra Suresh as president in January last year, the new leadership team has overseen the hiring of top talent in the past one and a half years.

For instance, the Presidential Post-doctoral Fellowship programme, started last year, attracted applications from nearly 900 young people from top global institutions for 12 positions this year.

An NUS spokesman said: “We are honoured that many academics and employers around the world continue to regard NUS as among the best in Asia and globally… The remarkable global standing of our local universities attests to the quality of Singapore’s higher education system.”

29 June 2019

The Teaching and Learning International Survey (Talis) conducted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has found that working conditions for Singapore teachers have improved, with local educators putting in fewer hours each week now than they did five years ago.

Singapore teachers now work two hours fewer than the 48 per week they reported in the year 2013.

In addition, the survey found that teachers are spending less time on administrative work and marking, which also gives them more time to teach. Teachers here spent most of their time on actual teaching, reporting 18 hours per week, up by an hour from 2013.

The OECD study polled over 200,000 teachers worldwide. The study found that Singapore teachers are the seventh-most hardworking in the world. Japan’s teachers came up top with 56 hours per week.

The five-yearly OECD survey aims to help countries review teacher education and professional development, their instructional beliefs and practices.

27 June 2019

The Ministry of Education has released the results of the Teaching and Learning International Survey (Talis) 2018, a five-yearly study conducted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development which involved secondary school teachers and principals around the world.

In Singapore, about 3,300 teachers and 167 principals from all 157 secondary schools and 12 private schools selected at random took part in the online questionnaire from September to October 2017.

The OECD survey found that teachers in Singapore generally have positive beliefs about equity and diversity in the classroom. For instance, 99 per cent of principals said most of their teachers feel that schools should encourage students from different socio-economic backgrounds to work together, and that respecting other cultures is something students should learn as early as possible.

In addition, the survey found that Singapore has a high proportion of teachers working in schools where policies and practices on cultural diversity are implemented. For example, almost all Singapore teachers said that their schools organise multicultural events.

As much as 95 per cent of Singapore teachers also said that their schools teach students how to deal with ethnic and cultural discrimination.