四南大生发起运动 推广支持国产食材

四南大生发起运动　推广支持国产食材

  

本地农场所生产的蔬菜可满足20％的本地需求，鸡蛋满足26％的需求，鱼类可满足8％；本地人多支持本地食材，可加强我国的粮食安全。（档案照片） 

椰浆饭、福建虾面、海南鸡饭等都是本地著名美食，但你可知道在这些佳肴中有多少食材是我国出产的？ 

由四名南大黄金辉传播与信息学院的学生与农粮兽医局联合推出的“We Are Singavore”运动昨日在南大校园举办为期两天的路演，希望在为学生提供免费试吃的同时，也推广支持国产食材的概念。 

《联合早报》

New NTU medical school to have state-of-the-art facilities

New NTU medical school to have state-of-the-art facilities


The second cohort of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine reciting the “Declaration of a new medical student” at a white coat ceremony at the School of Arts, Design and Media Auditorium in August 2014. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

Students aspiring to go to the Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine can look forward to state-of-the-art classrooms and research facilities at upcoming buildings for the school.

At a foundation stone laying ceremony on Wednesday, NTU president Bertil Andersson said: "To complement our innovative and technology-enhanced approach to medical education, our new buildings will be equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and future classrooms purpose-built for our teaching pedagogy."

At the ceremony, President Tony Tan laid a foundation stone at each of NTU's two new buildings, which will house its medical school, jointly set up with the Imperial College of London.

The Experimental Medicine Building at NTU's main campus will be completed in July, in time to welcome students for the upcoming academic year. The Clinical Sciences Building is at its Novena campus, near facilities such as Tan Tock Seng Hospital, which is part of a medical hub in the area known as Health City Novena.

Team-based learning will be a focus at the new school. Medical students can look forward to learning studios equipped with large screens where students can present their ideas to one another and compare their ideas side-by-side. Students will sit around tables in groups of six to discuss ideas and the use of iPads will feature heavily in the curriculum.

There will also be simulation wards where students can experience patient-centered team based simulations. The new clinical skills laboratory will create an immersive environment where students can perform tasks such as stitching up the prosthetic wounds on simulated patients.

At the Novena campus, there will be a roof-top medical library with collections in areas such as medical humanities. For both buildings, there will be several floors dedicated to research.

The school currently has 132 students, selected from more than 700 students interviewed in the past two admission exercises.

More than 900 students sat for the BMAT, a qualifying test for the school, and indicated that they would be applying for it.

To date, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine researchers have been awarded more than $15 million worth in grants.

~News coutesy of Straits Times~

Changes to part-time engineering programmes

NTU brings changes to part-time engineering programmes

Starting this year, Nanyang Technological University will revamp its part-time engineering degree programmes by reducing the number of years needed to graduate from five to four years.

Part-time engineering students will graduate faster as they will have greater flexibility in choosing their modules and will also be able to enrol in more modules per semester.

Part-time engineering students will not only be conferred NTU's Bachelors in Engineering degree in the same number of years as with the full-time programme, but will sit for the same examinations as well.

The part-time degrees will also be re-designed to adopt a 'flipped classroom' approach to learning, by doing away with traditional lectures. All lectures and course materials will be made available online and will be streamlined into smaller-sized topics for enhanced tutorial discussions, led by senior faculty members.

"The flipped classroom concept encourages deeper learning and more substantive discussions to take place during face-to-face sessions," said Professor Kam Chan Hin, Senior Associate Provost for Undergraduate education.

"This will not only allow students to participate in active learning time more remotely, but is also more accommodating of their busy career schedule by reducing the time needed to be on campus."

In addition to the revamped part-time programmes in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, NTU will also be introducing a new part-time degree programme in Computer Science, as well as two new modular certificate programmes for working professionals to update their knowledge on specific topics such as energy, oil and gas, and offshore engineering.

The new Computing Science and part-time engineering degree programmes will be coordinated under the new Office of Professional Education, led by Professor Stephen Lee Siang Guan.

NTU's revamped part-time engineering degrees offered by the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and School of Computer Engineering, will start in August 2015 and 2016.

Course applications will remain open till the end of this month.

~News coutesy of Straits Times~

南大半工读学生 最快四年内毕业

南大半工读学生　最快四年内毕业


尽管过去四年牺牲很多休闲时间，但新科电子工程师黄志伟认为修读部分时间学士学位是值得的。（邝启聪摄）

南洋理工大学改革部分时间工程学士学位课程，使用更多网络课程，并充分利用新增的学期。有意进修的半工半读学生可同全时间本科生一样，在四年内考获学位。

目前，南大开办电机与电子工程和机械工程两个部分时间学士学位课程，主要面向持有理工学院专业文凭的学生。南大今年推出计算机科学部分时间课程，满足业界对计算机科学人才的需求。这三项课程已开始招生。

《联合早报》

Happy new year 2015