12 June 2020
From next year, Nanyang Polytechnic students intending to pursue business intelligence and analytics will undergo a newly designed curriculum which aims to break down subject boundaries and bring industry closer to students. Under the new approach, students will take units that combine several subjects and skills, with industry players contributing content material.
Nanyang Polytechnic wishes to overhaul the existing approach in which students take modules along subject lines and are expected to apply the knowledge and skills cumulatively learnt across their course to a problem-solving project in their final year.
Instead, students will work on multidisciplinary tasks or projects starting from their first year. These tasks will be part of a “competency unit” that combines several subjects and skills.
Apart from competency units, students will also take work-integration-units, which consist of more complex projects that build on the foundational work tasks.
In the process, the business intelligence and analytics students will also earn industry certification in areas such as predictive analytics in data science, and data storage administration, from the tech partners after completing certain projects.