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SINGAPORE: The upcoming Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) will have a total of six campuses islandwide by 2014. Five of the campuses will be co-located within Singapore's five polytechnics while its headquarters will be set up at a location yet to be decided.
This follows the signing of a master agreement between SIT and the polytechnics.
The new Singapore Institute of Technology has been touted as a more convenient and cheaper pathway for polytechnic graduates seeking a university degree.
The students will be able to obtain their degrees in just two years through SIT and the school fees of around S$9,000 per year is much lower than if they were to head overseas.
So, it's only fitting that SIT campuses be co-located within the five polytechnics.
Aside from infrastructure, the polytechnics will provide teaching resources and other necessary facilities.
Professor Tan Chin Tiong, president, Singapore Institute of Technology, said: "If you look at polys currently, they are very well-built in terms of infrastructure - the labs, studios and the teaching classrooms that they already have. I would say they are world-class, so there's no reason not to leverage on what they already have."
Besides the five campuses which will be completed by 2014, S-I-T is also planning a separate HQ campus which will provide student services.
So far, five overseas universities have agreed to offer degree programmes.
They are the Technical University of Munich, DigiPen Institute of Technology, Newcastle University, University of Nevada, and the Culinary Institute of America.
About half of SIT's faculty will come from overseas varsities and the remainder from Singapore.
Polytechnic faculty who have the potential will also be identified to teach as Adjunct Lecturers.
Tan Hang Cheong, principal, Singapore Polytechnic, said: "If you look at the polytechnic lecturers now, the majority of them have a least a post-graduate, a masters degree.So I think it's the wrong perception to think polytechnic lecturers are all basic degree holders That was in the past, but now it's a very different scenario."
SIT's first eight degree programmes will be rolled out in August.
Its long term plan is to link up with up to 15 overseas varsities to offer degree programmes. - CNA/vm
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