Kirpal SINGH - Mediacast | Singapore Management University

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Establishing The First Center For SMU

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I thought it would be nice to set up a centre for cross-cultural studies. And so I met with Chin Tiong and I said, I've got this idea. So he said, why don't…

Roles And Responsiblities

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Roles And Responsiblities

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _

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I was brought in basically to do three things one was to helm a creative thinking program, which was sensationally new. And because it was going to be mandatory for…

Arts And Culture Program For SMU

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Arts And Culture Program For SMU

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So, my dream has been always, and some of my fellows from the 1999 batch of appointees, they think that I'm sentimental. And they said that you should stop being…

Advice For Students

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Advice For Students

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Okay. So, yes, I can give at least a few, related pieces. What Ive observed in many of the current students is that many of them are now into the show rather than the…

Organizing The Writers Festival

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Organizing The Writers Festival

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So in some ways I was very blessed because my mentor and the prof who took me in hand, a wonderful man call Edwin Thamboo. Prof Thamboo and I have had a sort of…

Selecting General Electives For The New University

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Selecting General Electives For The New University

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So one of the understood things that we had as a team was to say that one way in which the SMU graduate will be distinctly different from the NUS and NTU would be we…

Launching The Creative Thinking Program

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Launching The Creative Thinking Program

From Ms CHANG Ching Chen _

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Well, my brief was very simple. My brief was to try and construct a new syllabus; which would bring out the creative self in all our students. As far as the details were…

First Involvement

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First Involvement

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And then I continued until 1999, and this is where we're coming to SMU. Early in 1999, Low Kee Yang, who had himself just been inducted into the provisional set up…

Adopting A New Admissions Process

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Adopting A New Admissions Process

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So the biggest challenge was we could do one of two things. One is we would carry on to the system that we were so used to, by academic grades. And we thought that for a…

Interviewee Background

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Interviewee Background

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So I entered the University of Singapore in 1969 and practically got absorbed. And my head of department and the vice chancellor, who was then Dr Toh Chin Chye respected…

Risks Involved

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Risks Involved

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The only risk as Kee Yang [Low Kee Yang] told me was if the government changed its mind and shut down the university a year after it was formulated or whatever. But he…

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