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July 2004
 

[July 2004]

  • Education cover page
    The relaunch of Education magazine features SMU students Shaun Ng, Cheryl Chen and May Ho on the front cover.
    Education

  • They Dared to Dream
    20 SMU students together with 14 intellectually-disabled athletes braved the climb to the summit of Mt Kinabalu, while they battled zero degree winds, a lack of oxygen and extreme fatigue.
    Education

  • The Money’s Out There
    SMU has adopted a different way of helping needy students like Toh Ying Fang pay for their fees through a scheme which is common in America: Work-Study Grant.
    Education

  • Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition
    Post-event congratulatory trailer on the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition on Channel NewsAsia from 28 -31 August 04.
    Channel NewsAsia
  • “The Finals”
    The trailer of programme “The Finals” produced for the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition 2003/2004. The programme will be aired over Channel NewsAsia on Thursday, 29 July 2004, at 8.30pm.
    Channel NewsAsia

  • Will the Singapore Teams Win the Coveted Trophy?
    Trailer of programme “Will the Singapore Teams Win the Coveted Trophy?” produced in line with the LKY Global Business Plan Competition.
    Channel NewsAsia

  • New Appointment at SMU
    Howard O. Hunter has been named president of Singapore Management University and will take office in September.
    BizEd

  • Donations and Grants for SMU
    Singapore Management University will receive gifts worth $120 million in U.S. dollars from the philanthropic Lee Foundation and the country's Ministry of Education.
    BizEd

[31 July 2004]

  • No fears in taking on world's top sprinters
    Poh Seng Song, who will start his undergraduate studies at the Singapore Management University next month, will be going for his maiden Olympic outing in two weeks. The first-time Olympian talks about his goals and his training leading up to the big event.
    The New Paper

  • Students make free medical ID cards for elderly
    Singapore Management University (SMU)’s Project Radiance which organises volunteer projects, has provided 88 elderly folks with IC-size cards that have key data like food or drug allergies and current medication.
    The Straits Times

[30 July 2004]

[29 July 2004]

  • The Finals
    Highlights from “The Finals”, a 30-min programme produced for the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition 2003/2004 to capture the last league of the competition.
    Channel NewsAsia

  • Big Four eager to tap SMU's pioneer accounting grads
    The Big Four accounting firms are looking forward to tapping SMU’s maiden crop of accountancy graduates.
    The Business Times
  • IE S'pore offers good read while overseas
    SMU’s associate professor of finance, Dr Annie Koh is project adviser on IE Singapore's book – Financing Internationalisation – Growth Strategies For Successful Companies.
    The Straits Times
    Lianhe Zaobao

  • Business plan on transdermal system for drug delivery wins competition
    The second Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition received more than 500 submissions from 30 countries. This is the best response received amongst competitions of similar status.
    Lianhe Zaoabo
  • Singapore’s future challenge is 'ourselves'
    According to the winners of the Microsoft-SMU Business Challenge, Singapore’s future challenge is ‘ourselves’ – how to challenge ourselves to think out of the box and reach new heights.
    Lianhe Zaobao (zbNOW)

[26 July 2004]

[25 July 2004]

  • In this office, you can...
    Returning from a two-week business study trip to Silicon Valley last month, SMU students were impressed with the open and flexible working culture they saw there.
    The New Paper

[24 July 2004]

[23 July 2004]

[22 Jul 2004]

[21 Jul 2004]

  • Microsoft-SMU Business Challenge
    Two students from the Singapore Management University (SMU) will be making their way to Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, United States, after winning the Microsoft-SMU Business Challenge. The essays from Ms Zeng Yizhen and Ms Sarah Seow were selected from 40 submissions.
    Computer Times

  • GLC staff still being 'poached' despite high pay
    Prof Peter Cappelli, director at the Centre for Human Resources at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, shared his research findings at the annual Shaw Foundation Distinguished Faculty Series organised by SMU.
    The Straits Times

[20 July 2004]

  • Public remarks uncalled for
    I may not know the context in which certain comments were made about SMU by the new dean of the Nanyang Business School, Prof Hong Hai, but I felt the remarks were uncalled for.
    TODAY

  • Better to have friendly rivalry
    Prof Hong Hai's comments about SMU were uncalled for. Rather than squabble with our fellow countrymen, why not view it as friendly competition to improve the quality of a university education here?
    TODAY

[19 July 2004]

  • SMU students win Microsoft HQ visit
    The essays of two SMU students won the Microsoft-SMU Business Challenge and a trip to Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
    The Business Times

[18 July 2004]

  • Internships: Experience or exploitation?
    A new breed of super interns like SMU students Gulshan Harjani and Joshua Chua are making major breakthroughs in the companies they are attached to.
    The Straits Times

[17 July 2004]

[16 July 2004]

  • NTU grads may lack style but not substance
    Noting at his school's convocation ceremony that SMU students may have better presentation, Nanyang Business School dean Professor Hong Hai said NTU grads have their strengths too.
    The Straits Times

  • Big battle of the business schools
    New dean at the Nanyang Business School, NTU, Professor Hong Hai, challenged the perception that SMU graduates are better than the graduates from other schools.
    TODAY

[15 July 2004]

  • Microsoft – SMU Business Challenge results announced
    More than 40 essays were submitted by SMU students on their thoughts about the biggest problems facing businesses in Singapore. That was the Microsoft –SMU business challenge launched by Microsoft’s Chief Financial Officer John Connors during his visit to SMU on May 4, 2004. Two top winners - Zeng Yizhen and Sarah Seow – shared their thoughts with NewsRadio.
    NewsRadio FM 93.8

  • Is the SMU difference for real?
    By every indication, the pioneering cohort of SMU graduates can convince potential employers that their hard-earned qualifications can match those from more established institutions.
    The Straits Times

[14 July 2004]

[12 July 2004]

  • New wealth management degree here an instant hit
    When classes started over the weekend for the inaugural batch of students in the WMI master of science programme in wealth management at SMU, about four in 10 of them had to make their way from out of town, from places as far-flung as Canada and Europe.
    The Straits Times

[11 July 2004]

  • Pioneer SMU batch graduates
    Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan impressed on the 350 people who graduated from SMU yesterday how significant a role they played in shaping the future university landscape.
    The Straits Times
  • 'I'm not the smartest guy here'
    Mr Lim Kong Wee made history yesterday when he started a new tradition at the Singapore Management University (SMU) – he became its first valedictorian.
    The Straits Times
  • Challenge for local universities to cultivate a sense of belonging amongst students
    At the SMU Commencement held yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Defence & Security, Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam, pointed out that it is not enough for the university councils or the senior management to take responsibility for the university; everyone from the faculty to the students to the alumni has to feel that he plays a vital role in shaping its destiny.
    Lianhe Zaobao
  • Volunteerism offers simple joy
    Happiness can actually be simple, according to Tan Chee Wee, 25, SMU Community Service Scholar, who had been to Thailand twice as a volunteer to build a library, a classroom and an activity centre for the poor students in the village.
    Lianhe Zaobao
  • DPM to NUS, NTU: Take charge
    It’s new, it’s different, and it’s a success. So, will the others be a little more like SMU now?
    The New Paper

  • Best money routes to take when you hit 55
    SMU Associate Professor Benedict Koh lays out some principles for those at the 55-year milestone, with a view of stretching CPF savings into retirement.
    The Straits Times

[10 July 2004]

  • Pioneer batch of SMU graduates ready to make their mark
    Singaporeans need a mindset change to take greater ownership of their alma mater, so that the universities will continue to be successful, Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan has told 309 pioneer graduates of Singapore Management University at its first commencement ceremony. He said Singapore's third university has sparked off change in the other local universities.
    Channel NewsAsia
    Channel 5
    Channel 8
  • SMU’s first commencement
    SMU’s first commencement marks the graduation of 309 students. More than 60 percent of those who graduated in May this year have already found employment in the banking and financial sectors within a month.
    Channel u
  • Well done!
    The pioneer batch of students has graduated from the Singapore Management University. The commencement ceremony this morning was also an occasion to give the SMU a pat on the back for a job well done.
    Channel i
  • SMU leads the way in university autonomy
    The SMU model has given the government more confidence to give the other two universities greater autonomy, said DPM Dr Tony Tan, who was the guest-of-honour at SMU’s first commencement ceremony today.
    NewsRadio 93.8
  • A career cut in stone for pioneer SMU girl
    Singapore Management University's more than 300 pioneer students graduate today, with three in four already employed. Its open environment has been credited with nurturing confident, vocal and entrepreneurial students who dare to be different. One graduand, Miss Genevieve Teo Su Phin, tells how she left the usual graduate path.
    The Straits Times
  • Student encountered financial difficulties; professor offered assistance
    Tan Peck Hwei depended on own hard work to graduate Serene Tan Peck Hwei, 23, overcame financial difficulties when her father got retrenched to graduate yesterday amongst SMU's pioneer batch of 309 graduates. Although a SMU professor offered to loan her money to tide over the crisis, Serene chose to depend on her own efforts instead to earn 'pocket money'.
    Lianhe Wanbao
  • He is both a student and a lecturer
    25 year-old Rich Ho was both an undergraduate student and a "lecturer" at SMU. Graduated from SMU today, Rich was invited by his lecturer from the multi-media course to become a teaching assistant to instruct on film-making during his first year of study.
    Shin Min Daily News
  • Fiber-reinforced Plastic made from chicken feather
    Organised by SMU, the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition saw the submission of 500 entries this year. Three out of the six teams selected to compete for the finals are from Singapore. The team from NUS that came up with a business plan for Fiber-reinforced Plastic is one of the finalists.
    Lianhe Zaobao
  • Learning, off a jet plane
    In four years, Nadir Ali Zafar has spent a considerable amount of time in seven countries.But he is not a jet-setting businessman. Rather, he is among the first batch of graduating students from the SMU's innovative business administration course.
    TODAY

  • SMU’s Malay Language Cultural Club makes a debut in the Malay cultural scene
    A book that talks about the cultural values of the Malay speaking community like the Javanese, Baweanese and Bugis will be published and circulated by the Malay Language Cultural Club of SMU (MLCCSMU) next January.
    Berita Harian

[8 July 04 ]

  • Whistle-blowing option might have helped firm
    The financial woes at Informatics Holdings might have been detected earlier if the company had provided employees with an anonymous avenue to blow the whistle on any suspected wrongdoing, according to Prof Kenneth Merchant and Prof Niamh Brennan who were here for the Asia-Pacific Interdisciplinary Research In Accounting Conference organized by SMU.
    The Straits Times

[7 July 04 ]

  • Why the market may not be the best answer
    With Singapore's emphasis on competitiveness and reliance on its people as a natural resource, it is difficult to dispute the notion that higher education (by its nature neither universal nor cheap) should be responsive to market changes, to ensure as efficient and qualified a workforce as possible at any given time, according to Mary W S Wong, an associate professor of law at SMU.
    The Business Times

  • Disabled conquer Mt Kinabalu
    20 SMU students led 14 intellectually-disabled athletes and braved the climb to the summit of Mt Kinabalu together while they battled zero degree winds, a lack of oxygen and extreme fatigue.
    TODAY

[5 July 04 ]

  • New SMU course to tie up with Business
    SMU's new broad-based Bachelor of Social Science programme allows students to specialise in psychology, political science and eventually sociology, and integrate them with the discilpines of business and management which will help "broaden the perspectives of students" says Prof Robert Mariano, Dean, School of Economics & Social Sciences.
    TODAY

[ 2 July 04 ]

  • Business acumen needed but degree optional
    That you don’t need a business degree to come up with a good business model seems to be the moral of the second Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition, organised by the Singapore Management University.
    The Straits Times

  • Singapore teams dominate LKY Global Business Plan Competition
    Six teams have been shortlisted for the finals of this year's Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition and half of the shortlisted teams are from Singapore.
    Channel NewsAsia [PDF]

  • 3 S'pore teams in finals of LKY contest
    Three Singapore teams, along with two from Britain and one from the US, have made it to the finals of the Lee Guan Yew Global Business Plan Competition, organised by the Singapore Management University.
    Streats

  • Lesson No 1: Value your workers
    Among the key business tips students from Singapore Management University gleaned from a two-week study trip to Silicon Valley last month: Treat your workers well and make them feel valued.
    Streats

[ 1 July 04 ]

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Last updated on 31 July, 2006 by Corporate Communications.