Singapore Quality Assurance

الثاني 24-22بيروت 2015تشرين

Singaporean UniversitiesThe National University of Singapore (NUS)-

38,000Nanyang Technological University (NTU)-

33,000 Singapore Management University (SMU)-

9,000Singapore University of Technology & Design

(SUTD)- 1,400Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT)- 5,000

QS top 20 universities in the world 1. Massachusetts Institute of

Technology (1) 2. Harvard University (4) 3. University of Cambridge (2) 3. Stanford University (7) 5. California Institute of

Technology (8) 6. University of Oxford (5) 7. University College London

(5) 8. Imperial College London (2) 9. Swiss Federal Institute of

Technology (12)

10. University of Chicago (11) 11. Princeton University (9) 12. National University of

Singapore (22) 13. Nanyang Technological

University (39) 14. Ecole Polytechnique Federale

de Lausanne (17) 15. Yale University (10) 16. Johns Hopkins University (14) 17. Cornell University (19) 18. University of Pennsylvania

(13) 19. Australian National University

(25) 19. King's College London (16)

Strategic objectivesUniversities should continue training industry-

relevant graduate manpower and serve as magnets to attract and retain foreign talent in Singapore.

Universities must be better positioned to generate ideas for wealth creation. Their research efforts must develop depth in specialised areas in each domain, and breadth of expertise along the spectrum of disciplines to achieve research excellence and high economic impact.

Universities must attain international branding to entrench Singapore’s reputation as a significant player in the global education arena.

How did Singapore universities (NTU, NUS) become world-class and climb up the university rankings in a relatively short time?They set other high-profile departments as

targets they aspire to. So they are always asking:

"How can we do as well at this as Berkeley?" "Would Berkeley hire this person or admit this

student?" They bring in advisors from around the world,

and actually follow their advice.

Quality Assurance in NUS

Programme QualityTeaching QualityGraduate Monitoring

Programme QualityAt both the undergraduate and graduate

levels, there are various committees and boards established to oversee this process:

The committees and boards are:Department Curriculum CommitteeFaculty Curriculum Review CommitteeBoard of Undergraduate StudiesBoard of Graduate StudiesUniversity Committee on Educational PolicySenate

Among the duties of these committees are to review, evaluate and recommend changes to:

the general curriculum structureexisting and new degree programmesexisting and new educational

programmes, such as majors and minors, and optional; and

other educational policy issues

Teaching QualityStudent feedbackPeer review

Graduate Monitoring

Employment SurveysEmployer Feedback SurveyAlumni SurveysFaculty and Student Awards

Maintaining QualityQA in the National University of Singapore

(NUS) is typically managed by internal committees, augmented by ‘Visiting Committees’.

It is common for a lecturer who is considered to have underperformed to not have a contract renewed.

The public university participation rate is only 30 per cent in 2015 (36% in Malaysia), and is predicted to reach 40 per cent in 2020.

Medium of InstructionEnglish used as a common language to

connect citizens of all ethnic backgrounds, and tie Singapore to the world economy

Mother tongue instruction also available, along with French, German or Japanese

Free language education by the Ministry of Education Language

Centre for most additional languages that schools do not cover

Performance Signposts and Indicators of SuccessOverall International RankingSCI and SSCI-Indexed Papers and

CitationsLevels of PatentingInternational Reputation, Awards and

Collaboration

Performance Signposts and Indicators of Success: SCI and SSCI-indexed Papers and Citations

العراقية النشريات عدد

Period

No. of Documents

1919-1930 101931-1940 211941-1950 111951-1960 321961-1970 851971-1980 9141981-1990 17151991-2000 8932001-2010 3167

2010-present 5930

Development of Academic Staff: NUSStrategic goal - NUS as a globally

competitive universityKey policy instruments

compensation packagesresearch supportraising threshold for promotion and tenureflexible time allocationmeasuring improved faculty quality

Internationalization of academic staff and researchers

الدروسالمستخلصة التنمية احتياجات حول المستمر االستراتيجي التفكير

رائد يصبح أن يمكن والسوق االقتصادي والنمو الوطنيةالساللم تسلق من الجامعة يّمكن بحيث األكاديمي للتميز

للتصدر العالمية الحكومية السياسات اهداف تحقيق على التركيز بينما

على المنافسة مستوى على الجامعة تطوير من تحد العامةتحديا واألولويات المهمات تغيير يصبح حيث الدولي الصعيد

طويال ووقتا قوية ارادة ويتطلب الجامعة الدارة كبيرا