最近几则关于教育的新闻

Fiona2004

jjrchome 发表于 12-10-2012 17:38
谢谢。

查了，城景小学（Townsville Primary School）现任校长王介民（Ong Kai Tiong Eugene）将出任儒 ...

According to today's straits times, 儒廊的副校长Mrs Liu-Loh Wee Cheng将升任Townsville Primary School的正校长，到底怎么回事啊？希望对儒廊不要有太大影响！

emilysam

Fiona2004 发表于 13-10-2012 15:58
According today's straits times, 儒廊的副校长Mrs Liu-Loh Wee Cheng将升任Townsville Primary School ...

开始我也觉得把儒廊的正副校长都调走了，会不会对教学有影响。
蹦蹦爸说各科的HOD还在呢，主要看老师，还有更重要的是家长，所以应该没事。
而且，看来新校长也不错，以前在一个新成立的小学做了7年就出了PSLE的状元，应该是头脑很清楚，很有组织能力的，所以应该不会有影响到。
后来我仔细想，也许这样也对，一个校长一个风格，如果上层意见不统一最容易出问题，这样新校长比较容易实施自己的教学理念，应该是好事。
儒廊的家长不必过于担心。

jjrchome

首阶段7亿兴建新学习中心、宿舍与学术大楼 南大15年发展大计启动

胡洁梅 (2012-10-13)

南大校长安博迪（左）向教育部长王瑞杰（中）介绍新学习中心的独特设计，这座促进跨学科交流的中心将在后年建成。右为南大副教务长（本科生教育）甘灿兴教授。（萧紫薇摄）

胡洁梅　报道

　　新学习中心建在南大人文与社会科学院旁。这座七层高的大楼由多个塔式建筑围绕，设有55间新一代课室。除了课室，中心也设有图书馆、餐厅与天台花园。南大现有3万4000名学生，目前的16座宿舍只可容纳约三四成学生。八座新宿舍将可容纳5000人。

　　扩大学习空间，增添宿舍让更多学生体验群体生活，南洋理工大学昨天为15年发展计划举行动土仪式，打造宜跨学科交流及社交学府。

新设施2016年完工

　　耗资7亿元的第一阶段发展工程集合新一代学习中心、学生宿舍与学术大楼，这些新设施将于2016年完工。

　　设计具现代感的新学习中心（Learning Hub）建在在南大人文与社会科学院旁。大楼出自名英国设计师汤姆士（Thomas Hetherwick）之手，他曾参与设计伦敦奥运会圣火炉。

　　这座七层高的大楼由多个塔式建筑围绕，设有55间新一代课室，课室内的多媒体功能器材与亲小组桌椅摆设将辅助自主学习与讨论。除了课室，中心设有图书馆、餐厅与天台花园。位于校园南脊的学习中心将在后年7月完工，北脊另一座设计相似的学习中心则在2016年竣工。

　　南大校长安博迪教授受访时说，配合新教学法，现今学生需要更多利于协作与交流的空间。此外，新宿舍将确保所有大一新生都有机会体验宿舍生活，全校五六成的学生能住进宿舍。

　　南大有约3万4000名学生，目前的16座宿舍只可容纳约三四成的学生。

　　八座新宿舍可容纳5000人，预计2015年竣工。南洋通道的两座宿舍建筑工程已展开，将率先在2014年完工；预计今年底建成的新研究生宿舍可容纳1170人，比现有的宿舍多出超过一倍。

　　作为重视可持续发展研究的学府，南大在发展计划中也考虑节能与绿化元素，让校园绿意盎然。南洋通道的宿舍将有生态水池，把收集的水过滤作为研究用途，而水池旁也有空间供办聚会用途。

　　明年开课的李光前医学院将设有实验性医学大楼（Experimental Medicine Buidling）。大楼有先进设施供虚拟学习、临床实验用途等，预计2015年竣工。

第二阶段计划4年后进行
　　安博迪在动土仪式致词时说，南大最大特点是浓郁的文化资产，云南园和华裔馆勾起许多南大人的回忆。因此，校方在重新发展校园是也着重保留大学的文化遗产与“公园”特色。

　　南大第二阶段的发展在2016年后进行，包括兴建集合零售与娱乐设施的校园中心（Campus Centre）、供研究人员与学生的新宿舍等。南大将继续与有关当局探讨改善交通安排，希望能让轻轨列车开进校园。

　　出席仪式的教育部长王瑞杰致词时说，越来越多大学推出网上课程，科技对教育方式起着重大改变，但教学的素质不可牺牲。

　　他说：“顶尖大学的挑战是如何融合网上学习体验以及人与人的接触。我国大学要考虑如何重新规划学习空间，促进小组讨论与协作学习。南大的新设施将促进跨学科的交流。”

　　王瑞杰也恭贺南大与新加坡国立大学在“QS全球最佳大学排行榜”和“泰晤士报高等教育全球大学排行榜”的优秀表现，这显示两所大学具优势为学生提供优质教育。不过，他也强调大学不应过于注重排名，而应了解学生的需求，为他们营造良好的学习体验。

《联合早报》

jjrchome

名校前男教师　94次偷拍女生裙底
13/10/2012 on 新明日报



男教师偷拍裙底风光，被判坐牢9个月。（图／档案照）                                                         

坚信不会被逮，名校前男教师一再偷拍女学生裙底风光，称患强迫症，求法官免他坐牢，法官当场“酸”他，指监狱心理医生也能治他！

男教师萧瑞宏（译音，39岁）案发时任教于东部一间名校。他共面对94项侮辱女性尊严的控状，指他去年利用手机偷拍少女的裙底风光，昨午被判坐牢9个月。

警方在男教师的手机里，发现94个录像。案情显示，男教师在学校偷拍女学生的裙底风光，也到书店跟踪女生偷拍。

被捕后，他保释在外期间，强忍偷拍欲望，但两个月后又再干案。这次他没在学校偷拍女生，而是到地铁、巴士车站、食阁、快餐店、电动扶梯和超市等地点干案。

- 1天拍33个裙底风光录像
- 学生特地到法庭听审
完整报道请看13.10.2012的《新明日报》。

jjrchome

南洋小学部分校舍将于今年被拆除，新校舍将于2014年底竣工。在此期间，小一和小二学生将移至位于5, Toh Tuck Road的临时校舍上学。小三至小六学生依旧在旧校舍上学。


Nanyang Primary to raze old blocks in $30m revamp
       The Straits Times |    Sun Oct 14 2012


   

      
   
    SINGAPORE - The original Nanyang Primary School, which was built atop a hill on King's Road in 1975, will be demolished this year, along with an extension constructed in 1985.

These two sections, which make up about 40 per cent of the school in Bukit Timah, will be rebuilt to a "more modern" design by the end of 2014, said principal Lee Hui Feng.

            Estimated to cost $30 million, the new construction will include a classroom block, indoor sports hall, gymnasium and performing arts studios.

During the construction works, Primary 1 and 2 pupils will go to a holding school at 5, Toh Tuck Road, while Primary 3 to 6 pupils will remain at King's Road. But parents living near the temporary premises in Toh Tuck will not get priority for their children to enrol in the popular primary school.

Primary 1 registration rules give some priority to children who live near a school, and priority for this hotly sought-after school will still go to those living in the proximity of the King's Road campus, said Mrs Lee.

Speaking to The Straits Times at the school yesterday, she said the decision to tear down the school's oldest blocks was based on necessity.

Some of the classrooms are 56 sq m in area, short of the Education Ministry's latest specifications of 90 sq m, said Mrs Lee.
The ceilings in the older buildings also leaked sometimes, and the toilets were "very old and small", but could not be renovated because of the existing plumbing.

The new classrooms in the rebuilt section will be used by Primary 5 and 6 pupils, and 240 children from the Nanyang Kindergarten.

Mrs Lee foresees that the next two years will be challenging, as pupils will have to make do with the lack of facilities.

"Rooms that are used for learning in the day will have to double up as co-curricular activity rooms in the afternoon," she said.
            
Though she looks forward to the expansion, Mrs Lee said she felt a tinge of sadness over the demolition of spaces where pupils played sports or learnt musical instruments and other art forms.

Current pupils also had a list of school haunts they would miss such as the eco garden, pavilion, and old basketball court.
Said Madam Lau Hwai Bing, 44, a teacher at the school whose mother used to teach there, and whose daughter is currently a student: "I feel sad saying goodbye to the old things, but I'm also excited about the facilities the younger generation will get to enjoy."

Mrs Lee said she hopes to transplant an old fig tree to the rebuilt campus, and plans to keep pieces of the rubble for history's sake.

"Just like what happened when the Berlin Wall fell," she said.

She also plans to display pictures of the old buildings in the rebuilt campus, so pupils and teachers with memories of school days there could "keep telling the stories" to incoming pupils.

The school organised two homecomings for alumni, in April and last month. After these events, Mrs Lee said she received e-mail messages from many former pupils hoping to visit the old buildings before they were torn down.

She now opens the school on some nights and weekends for alumni to visit. She said former president Ong Teng Cheong's sons will be visiting the school over the next two weekends。

The school boasts some famous former pupils, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his siblings, Mr Lee Hsien Yang and Dr Lee Wei Ling。

Said Mrs Lee: "It warms my heart to know that ex-pupils want to come back, and it gives me the chance to meet alumni across the generations."
  

jjrchome

yuebaby  昨天新闻也有个南大法律系奖学金得主,上载黄带到youtube

这个。。。新闻在这里：

NUS Asean scholar and GF post sex photos and videos of themselves on blog            


                      
                                                                                                        Photos: Internet

A National University of Singapore (NUS) Asean scholar is in the spotlight after posting photographs and videos of girlfriend and himself having sex on his blog.

A STOMPer had alerted Stomp to the blog and wrote:

"I chanced upon this website on facebook. The couple post pictures of their naked bodies and them having sex."

The Straits Times reported that the NUS law scholar, Mr Alvin Tan Jye Yee, 24, began posting the photos of himself and his girlfriend, a 23-year-old Malaysian known as Vivian, on his private blog last month. Mr Tan got to know Vivian through facebook.

Mr Tan is currently in Malaysia after taking a leave of absence from school last year to start his own firm.

He came to Singapore on an Asean scholarship in 2004, and studied at Xinmin Secondary School and Raffles Junior College. He attended NUS on an Asean undergraduate scholarship.

When asked to confirm if Mr Tan is a student, an NUS spokesman said it could not disclose confidential information and declined to comment on what happens when a student breaks the code of conduct. NUS' code of student conduct states behaviour that is "offensive should not be a feature of our students".

According to a lawyer of Keystone Law Corp, Mr Tan could be prosecuted for breaching the Films Act for his obscene videos if his blog enters Singapore, even  if he is not Singaporean and the videos may not have been shot here.

Mr Tan told the Straits Times that he plans to return to NUS in January to finish his studies. He is aware his scholarship could be terminated because of the blog, but says he is more curious about how far he can push boundaries.

He added: "What can (NUS) do? Terminate my scholarship or expel me? I can't say I will be fine with it, but if it happens, I can accept it. I started my company and I have my own savings."

Fellow students say he is reliable but not very sociable. An NUS law graduate, who declined to be named, said: "We weren't particularly close but he is very reliable and dependable when it comes to work."

Source: The Straits Times Online

jjrchome

南大MBA课程 世界排名第72

（2012-10-17）

南洋理工大学商学院的工商管理硕士课程在最新公布的《经济学人》（The Economist）杂志的世界排名中，名列第72名，新加坡国立大学商学院则排名第92。

这是南大MBA课程连续九年被《经济学人》评为新加坡最佳MBA课程。

南大昨天发表文告说，这个课程近九年来都在全球工商管理硕士（MBA）课程排名中取得前100名的位置。在亚洲（包括澳大利亚），该课程名列第八。越来越受到国际认可的南大工商管理硕士课程，今年初在英国《金融时报》全球工商管理硕士课程排名中也名列第34。国大商学院在《经济学人》的亚洲排行榜名列12，在《金融时报》的世界排名则列第23名。

南大商学院代院长杨贤卿教授说，从明年开始的新课程，将确保学生持续获得最好的教育，让学生做好准备，适应这个不断变化、更重视社会道德，以及亚洲国家地位越来越重要的商业环境。

从明年7月开始，南大的工商管理硕士课程将更注重培养领导能力、企业监控和社会责任等方面，同时也将缩短课程时间，从现有的16个月减至一年，让学生更快的重新投入工作。这项课程全日制每年收约80名学生，部分时间课程则收40名学生。在全日制课程中，欧美学生占30%，其他是本地学生或来自亚洲其他国家。

jjrchome

王瑞杰说：每年大约有6%的初院学生留级；有两所初院的留级率达到了15%。。。



6% of JC1 students fail
Edvantage |    Tue Oct 16 2012


                              

      
   
SINGAPORE - About six per cent of first-year junior college students were retained per cohort over the last three years, Education Minister Heng Swee Keat told Non-Constituency Member of Parliament on Monday, in writing.

The highest numbers were in two colleges where about 15 per cent were retained. The minister however did not reveal the names of the JCs.

He also added that students were counselled if the A-level course was not suitable for them.


abrahamr@sph.com.sg

  

jjrchome

教育部长王瑞杰在回答议员提问时透露了每年通过DSA升学的人数。


Effectiveness of Direct School Admission Programme

Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament
Mr Alvin Yeo, MP for Chua Chu Kang GRC

Question
To ask the Minister for Education whether the Direct School Admission (DSA) programme for Primary 6 and Secondary 4 students to be guaranteed a place in a secondary school or junior college respectively has achieved its purpose and whether the criteria for DSA will be reviewed.

Response
1The Direct School Admission (DSA) scheme, introduced in 2004, seeks to promote holistic education by recognising a more diverse range of student achievements, abilities and interests as criteria for school admission. Participating schools are given the flexibility to admit some students on the basis of their strengths, rather than rely solely on their performance at the national examinations.   

2Last year, under DSA, around 2,600 students, or about 6% of the student cohort, were admitted to secondary schools, while 500 students or about 3% of the student cohort entered junior colleges. These students were admitted through a diverse range of talent areas which included sports, performing arts and visual arts, and specialised academic areas.  

3Overall, DSA has served to allow students to develop in their areas of strength, by broadening admission criteria beyond grades at national examinations. In general, schools can decide on their DSA admission criteria, as long as they are merit-based and transparent. The Primary 6 students must achieve PSLE results that would enable them to be eligible for admission to the course being offered by the DSA school, while the Secondary 4 students must meet the eligibility criteria for JC admission based on the GCE ‘O’ Level examination results. As with all of our policies, we continue to regularly review the DSA scheme and seek to improve upon it.

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失踪近4个月的国大博士生崔路超的尸体在法国的一个树林里被发现，法国警方，新加坡国大和中国大使馆正在合作展开调查。。。


Posted on 18 Oct 2012            
NUS student missing in France 'found dead'            


   

               
The National University of Singapore (NUS) PhD student from China who went missing in France in July, is believed to have been found dead.

Mr Cui Luchao, 27, disappeared in Toulouse, Eastern France and his body had been found in the woods, 300km away from a town called La-Bastide-Puylaurent. He was last seen on July 12 at a symposium by staff of the Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de I'université de Bourgogne (ICMUB).

A note found on Mr Cui's body suggested that he wanted to retrace the route taken by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, who travelled across the Cevennes mountain range in 1878.

In the final year of chemical and pharmaceutical engineering studies in NUS' Singapore-MIT Alliance, Mr Cui was in Dison on a three-month attachment. He is the youngest of three children from a farming village in the Henan province of China.

Investigations to determine the identity of the body are still ongoing. French police are appealing for witnesses and NUS is working closely with ICMUB and the Chinese Embassy in France.

Read the full report in The Straits Times.

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