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Scope for higher education in Singapore

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI AUG. 11. When visa restrictions for students are getting strict in many western nations, Singapore offers an ideal alternative for Indian students who want to pursue higher education. This was the message that the International Education (IE) Singapore conveyed to public and private sector education providers in the State, during a daylong interactive seminar organised by it here on Monday.

Singapore's Consul in Chennai, Koh Siew Mui, and the Chennai Centre Director of IE Singapore, Baskara Kannan, who highlighted the city-State's educational services, said their country had more than 1100 private educational and training establishments, many of which had international cooperative alliances with providers worldwide. Singapore's educational system put a premium on merit.

It had access to the latest programmes, delivery systems and educational technologies round the globe.

Its providers managed to package content which were demand-driven.

They also had access to the best of authors, editors and content writers in the region. In all, Singapore could offer the best of packages to customise different needs, right from pre-school to higher educational level, they noted and added that a website www.singaporeedu.gov.sg had been promoted recently to market Singapore as a premier educational and training destination.

The session introduced to the Indian educational providers — mainly schools, colleges and universities — the opportunities for collaboration with Singapore's private educators and trainers.

Inaugurating the seminar, the Vice Chairman of the Tamil Nadu State Council for Higher Education, S. Muthukumaran, said individual Universities in Tamil Nadu were trying to specialise in specific areas of academic activity and research - Madras University in `medicinal plants', Madurai University in Genetics, Bharathidasan University in Biotechnology, Annamalai University in Marine Sciences.

Private providers of higher and tertiary education in the city-State highlighted their offerings in tertiary, technical, management education on campuses as well as on-line courses.

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