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It's not about setting your career with what you study. That's one of the reasons SMU is so important. It’s got the four-year undergraduate programme,…
Advise for students
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To me, personally, it's the people Iíve met, it's the connections Iíve made. My wife and I have had some great weekends at Banyan Tree Resorts,…
Personal Impact
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I see this in particular contrast to Hong Kong U, in contrast to Hong Kong. There I was on the University Grants Council, committee council, for nine years. I went off…
Singapore's public policy in guiding…
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A particular image of SMU that many people will draw in is the jumping student. But sooner or later, that student comes back to earth, gravity prevails. You can’t…
Looking ahead
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It looks at international and strategy and the university in a wider sense. QAFU looks at the operations of the university in a more functional sense. I think probably a…
The role of the international Academic Advisory…
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It is an external body of wise people who have standing in the eyes of the Government. And I have to say, whose academic and other profile also commends themselves, as a…
The role of QAFU
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By the very nature of an institution that started out living in one roomóI guess thatís the nature of thisópeople got to know one another very, very…
Early days at SMU
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Well, certainly SMU was looking for a different style of student. And in a way that’s pretty well reflected in the marketing, the image programme of the jumping…
Admissions criteria
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Well, on finance, it was to oversee the budget, to ask the questions. The key question to me was: How can we make the budgeting process a strategic exercise? How can you…
Responsibilities of the Finance and Remuneration…
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One of the reasons you probably need a longer tenure track at a new university is that we have fewer senior mentors for the younger faculty coming along. When I was at…
The tenure process at SMU
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The key responsibility for Academic Affairs Committee was to determine the nature of the gold standard at SMU. Were we going to be twenty-two carat gold or eighteen…
The Academic Affairs Commitee
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One, was the admission process, the process and the quality of student admission. Secondly, was the design of the programmes that we were going to run. A third one, was…
Early priorities of the Board of Trustees
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I think the Board of Trustees has been one of the really important design features of SMU. Its role is essentially to bring wider experience and wisdom. It helps with…
SMU's Board of Trustees
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Well, I had a phone call one morning. My secretary said that there is a Janice Bellace on the phone. I happened to know Janice from my international professional…
First involvement with SMU
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I spent most of my life, well, spent most of my adult working life in universities, but in and out of universities. I did a PhD in the US at the University of Illinois,…
Interviewee background
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