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09 October 2020

Local universities have taken extra steps this year to help students in need.

For instance, the National University of Singapore’s Students Solidarity Fund has raised about $1.6 million, and the university has disbursed grants ranging from S$200 to S$700 to some 3,100 students.

Similarly, the Nanyang Technological University has distributed more than $1.6 million to over 1,100 students.

A spokesman for the Singapore Management University said the institution had set up an SMU Resilience Fund in May to help students facing financial hardship. The fund, which started with $2.5 million, has since grown by another $1.14 million, which includes contributions from faculty and staff.

The Singapore University of Technology and Design has set up an emergency fund, which has raised about $260,000. This is on top of existing government bursaries.

04 October 2020

The senior management of Singapore’s six autonomous universities have taken a pay cut in sympathy with the grave economic situation facing the country.

Each of these 6 universities have also stepped up financial relief in the past few months by encouraging donations and setting up funds for students affected by bleak economic climate.

A spokesman from the Ministry of Education said: “As publicly-funded national institutions, the AUs play an important national role in educating Singaporeans. The AUs stand together in solidarity with the rest of the nation during this difficult period.”

The move by the universities follows the National Wages Council’s recommendation that employers adversely impacted by the current economic climate can consider reducing wages – and have their management lead by example – to cut costs and save jobs.

In a similar fashion, the Public Service Division announced earlier in June that public officers in superscale grades will take a one-time 0.5-month or one-month pay cut in accordance with their seniority.

01 October 2020

At a dialogue on the future of jobs and skills for Singaporeans, Education Minister Lawrence Wong has said that there is no need to worry about robots replacing humans.

Robots and computers will never be able to think creatively, have face-to-face conversations, brainstorm and challenge one another or come up with solutions as a team, for instance.

Joining Mr Wong in the diaglogue were Singapore’s five mayors: Ms Low Yen Ling (South West District), Ms Denise Phua (Central Singapore District), Mr Desmond Choo (North East District), Mr Alex Yam (North West District) and Mr Fahmi Aliman (South East District).

“Most of us feel like the jobs of the future, everything, has to do with technology and that’s why the main words we hear today are ‘data analytics’ and ‘cyber security’,” Ms Phua said.

But there are other jobs, such as in healthcare, that will focus on care models or the process of caring for patients, with technology being used more for communication purposes, Ms Phua added.

Mr Choo said: “Workers who are prepared to make changes and adapt, are willing to get re-trained, generally do find that getting a job is much easier.”