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219 The education research conducted by the Institute of Education under the MECS encompassed a broad area of education manageme ...

220 University of Medical Sciences (MNUMS) plays a leading role in the association, as it introduced the block integrated underg ...

221 attractive professions, such as business administration and law, and financial management of HEIs) have been studied relativ ...

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226 sustainable development, higher education is perceived as a crucial and strategic policy instrument facilitating the Singapo ...

227 Lee and Gopinathan 2007 ; Mok 2008 ; Olds 2007 ; Olds and Thrift 2005 ; Sidhu 2006 , 2009a, 2009b; Sidhu et al. 2011 , 2014 ...

228 of a global schoolhouse or education hub, a strong emphasis on research and devel- opment, the integration of skill formatio ...

229 ence in developing higher education to other developing countries, especially those in South and Southeast Asia and also the ...

230 government decided to put more emphasis on high value-added industrial and ser- vice sectors after the economic recession in ...

231 Globalization also implies more direct economic challenges facing Singapore from other less developed or newly developed eco ...

232 facilitator of international collaborations and partnerships. The state-centred approach of higher education development is ...

233 English has been adopted as the lingua franca instead of Chinese despite of a majority of the Chinese population there (Gopi ...

234 Committee 1986 ). The participation rate of higher education, including the univer- sity and polytechnic sectors, has increa ...

235 Not only the quality of students but also the recruitment and retention of talented and outstanding academics are always a c ...

236 play in not only producing highly skilled labour but also, more importantly, new knowledge and ideas for the future of Singa ...

237 year 2008. This initiative was based on the Singapore government’s intention to turn Singapore into the “Boston of the East” ...

238 trends and issues concern the changing relationship between the state and higher education, the dilemma between expansion an ...

239 education. Nonetheless, it should also be noted that, besides substantial financial inputs, which are considered as investme ...

240 Conclusion This chapter has provided a review of the existing research literature of higher edu- cation studies in Singapore ...