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By Muhamad Farhan
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Mar. 6 2010 |
A team of five NUS students are campaigning to raise the university’s average recycling rate and narrow the huge disparity with the national average.
NUS’ recycling rate in 2008 was 12 percent, a figure that falls far short of the national average of 56 percent. In comparison, Havard University, the world’s top institution of higher learning, boasts a recycling rate of 55 percent, which is almost equivalent to the national average of the United States.
Called OMG, the team had initially worked on a project that was part of an academic module, NM4207: Managing Communications Campaigns. Upon completion of the project, the group continued to work together and began an actual campaign to combat environmental degradation. It is led by Goh Tong Jee, a master’s student in the Communications and New Media programme. |
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By Shaiful Rizal
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Feb. 28 2010 |
Fresh graduates seeking employment should put passion over pay.
This was the advice given to students at a NUS forum by members of the Industry Advisory Council (IAC). The council consists of top communications and new media executives who offer recommendations on how the Communications and New Media (CNM) curriculum can remain relevant to the industry.
Myrna Thomas, corporate affairs managing director of Temasek Holdings, is one of the executives who make up the council.
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By Prashant Sukumaran
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Feb. 18 2010 |
The NUS administration’s decision to expedite the mid-semester break by a week has met with disapproval from students.
According to the customary academic calendar, a standard six weeks of term precede the recess week. This semester however, the break was brought forward one week earlier by the university administration to coincide with the Chinese lunar new year holiday. This means that the second half of the semester will now be eight weeks long instead of the usual seven.
According to the registrar’s office, which is responsible for planning the academic calendar, it was decided that the recess week would be rescheduled to allow overseas students and staff to return home to celebrate the lunar new year. |
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By Navindraram Naidu
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Feb. 11 2010 |
A group of NUS students visited Housing Development Board (HDB) households in the Bukit Batok and Toh Guan areas to collect rice for needy families in the community on Feb. 6 and Feb. 7, after calls from the Red Cross NUS Chapter for volunteers.
The rice collection drive was part of Project R.I.C.E, an annual event organized by the Singapore Red Cross Society and supported by the Red Cross NUS Chapter since 2009.
Teaming up with students from Bukit Batok Secondary School, the NUS student volunteers set out to collect 10,000 kilograms of rice from 15,000 households over the two days. The rice was then packaged and distributed to low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled. |
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By Khaliesah binte Mohamed Hatta
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Feb. 7 2010 |
A two-day forum for youths is set to be held at the University Cultural Centre in conjunction with the inaugural Youth Olympic Games that Singapore will host later this year.
Jointly organized by the NUS University Scholars Programme and the University of Sydney’s Centre for the Mind, the forum, titled “What Makes a Young Champion? 2010 (Singapore),” will take place from Aug. 7 to Aug. 8.
Marketed as a “forum by youth, for youth,” the event will bring together selected youth from around the world to exchange diverse views about the meaning of the term ‘championship’. |
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