NUS master’s programmes to cease receiving govt subsidies: NUS president

SINGAPORE – All master’s courses at the National University of Singapore will be fully self-funded by end 2022 and will no longer receive government subsidies, said its president Tan Eng Chye on Wednesday.

Capitalising on NUS’ brand, Prof Tan said in the last few years, nearly all master’s programmes would have stopped receiving government subsidies. By the end of 2022, all master’s courses would have become self-funded. Prof Tan added that the Government also encourages universities to raise funds through building endowments, similar to what other prestigious institutions in the United States do.

Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the event, Prof Hamdi said with the economic downturn brought on by the pandemic, the government in Malaysia had to channel funding to other areas like healthcare and social services in the past three years. The two-day event, organised by Times Higher Education and hosted by NUS, brought together nearly 300 delegates from around the world to discuss issues like innovation in the higher education sector.

In the next three years, NUS will be converting face-to-face lectures for large courses with 100 or more students to online lectures, he added. As part of this exercise, which will involve about 800 courses, students will watch online videos that could be 15 minutes long, interspersed with online assessments.

Published course fees are way too high. There should be subsidies for locals. If not, why pay so much when you can get practically free education on youtube?

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This goes against lifelong learning narrative... interested to find out why

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Just too full of themselves. I would love to see them backtracking when the people start to go overseas for their Masters. That is what I would tell my children if they need to take up one in future. It is just not blaady right in my opinion.

This is one area where the subsidies should not reduce. This is investment in people instead of expenditure.

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