A Brief Chronological History
Perspective
1823: Sir Stamford Raffles proposed the establishment of an association in the method for a school which would give direction and rule moreover grasp research.
1902: A commission was chosen to solicit into the plan from English direction.
1904 September: A demand, drove by the Hon. Tan Jiak Kim, was had a tendency to Sir John Anderson, Governor of the Straits Settlements, for a remedial school to be made.
1905: September 28 The School was formally opened by Sir John Anderson, Governor of the Straits Settlements. A course of studies over 5 years was expected to provoke the Final Qualifying Examination of the School in Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery.
1910: May The starting seven licentiates got their authentications from the Medical School.
1912: The name of the school was changed to King Edward VII Medical School in recognition of the legacy of $120,000 from the King Edward VII Memorial Foundation and that the School was made in the midst of the tenet of King Edward VII.
1916: The Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery (LMS) allowed by the Medical School was seen by the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom.
1918: It was recommended that the most suitable celebration on the centennial of the foundation of Singapore would be a school for cutting edge training to be known as Raffles College. It was assumed that this school would structure the foundation of a future school.
1919: A Government leading group of trustees set up a blessing store for Raffles College, with an acquirement of two million dollars. A site was moreover given by the Straits Settlements government.
1920 The name of the Medical School was changed to King Edward VII College of Medicine as it was felt that the representation "school" was not palatable in going on the status of the foundation in giving direction of a school standard. This name was held until 1949.
1922 The Council of the College at first inspected the establishment of a Dental School.
1928 June: Raffles College let it out's first group of understudies, numbering 23.
1929 July : Raffles College was definitively opened by Sir Hugh Clifford, the Governor of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner for the Malay States. Richard Winstedt was the first Principal.
1929: The Department of Dental Surgery was made at the King Edward VII College of Medicine.
1938: The McLean Commission which had as its terms of reference the issue of cutting edge instruction in Malaya, had particularly to oversee Raffles College and the possible request of setting up a school. Its proposals, regardless, were racked as a result of the scene of World War II.
1941-1945: During the Japanese Occupation, the Japanese used the College of Medicine as a serological establishment and Raffles College structures as military home office.
1946: King Edward VII College of Medicine and Raffles College resuscitated.
1947: The Licentiate in Dental Surgery regarded by the King Edward VII College of Medicine was seen by the General Medical Council of Great Britain.
1947: The Carr-Saunders Commission on University Education in Malaya proposed that an obvious school be fabricated. A trial period was excessive as both Colleges (King Edward VII College of Medicine and Raffles College) could be joined to structure the school. Owing to the high academic standards of both colleges, it was proposed that with merger, the establishment could give full degrees.
1949: Legislation was gone in Singapore concerning the University of Malaya.
1949 October: The University of Malaya was made with Rt Hon Malcolm MacDonald as Chancellor and Dr G.V. Allen as Vice-Chancellor. The King Edward VII College of Medicine transformed into the Faculty of Medicine and Raffles College organized the Faculties of Arts and Science.
1953: Mr. Tan Lark Sye of the Hokkien Huay Kuan at first mooted the possibility of making a school giving Chinese preparing and offered to subscribe three to five million dollars toward a school hold. A Preparatory Committee was organized and the name Nanyang University was gotten. The University was joined as an association under the Companies Ordinance.
1955: Nanyang University was made on a 500-area of area site in Jurong gave by the Hokkien Huay Kuan, a group alliance.
1956 March 15: Nanyang University was formally launched. There were at initial three workers with three division each.
1959 January 15: Legislation went live pleasing a lone University with two for the most part free divisions of proportional status, the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur and the University of Malaya in Singapore.
1959: The Nanyang University Ordinance was gone to give statutory reason to the school as an educational association.
1960: The two Governments exhibited that the two divisions of the University of Malaya should wind up free separate national universities.
1962 Jan 1: The University of Singapore was fabricated.
1968: Full recognition of the Nanyang University degrees was given by the organization of Singapore.
1969: A site at Kent Ridge was secured for the new grounds of the University of Singapore.
1974: A ordinary affirmations board was made by the University of Singapore and Nanyang University to streamline the affirmation of understudies to first degree courses at the two Universities.
1978: July To propel closer ties between the two Universities, a Joint Campus was arranged up at Bukit Timah. Understudies of Arts, Social Sciences, Science, Accountancy and Business Administration of the two Universities mulled over the same courses and were investigated by the same inside and outside examiners.
1979 October: The Dainton Report recommended that Singapore should have a single, strong school.
1980 April: The government announced that the University of Singapore and Nanyang University would be met to structure the National University of Singapore.
1980 August 8 : The National University of Singapore was formally settled. President Benjamin Sheares was the first Chancellor. The essential Vice-Chancellor was Dr. Tony Tan, the Minister of Education. School people stayed at 817 insightful staff, 8634 understudies and 444 postgraduates. The University had grounds in two territories: Kent Ridge and Sepoy Lines.
1981: First gathering capacities for graduated class of NUS. Target was to welcome conspicuous scholastic and specialists to make unusual state duties to school preparing and investigation. The principle Visitor was Dr. Sydney Brenner, a perceived geneticist from Cambridge.
1987: The School of Accountancy was traded to the Nanyang Tachnological Institute.
1987: The school was the first foundation in Asia to make joins with all inclusive educational Foundations by method for a PC framework called BITNET.
1989: The Alumni Affairs Office was made with the fundamental piece of empowering closer associations amidst graduated class and the University. Its name was changed to the Alumni Affairs and Development Office in 1991 with the improvement of its abilities.
1990: NUS lauded the tenth remembrance of its establishment. School masses stayed at 1456 educational staff, 15193 understudies and 2342 postgraduates.
1991: Launch of NUSNET - the greatest grounds sort out in the Asia Pacific region. The University was the first in Singapore and the district to be associated with Internet. NUS was later included in supervising TECHNET, the national R&D PC framework which joined the area R&D gathering to Internet.
1991: Introduction of the keen card system doling high security and put out regard capacities and for becoming acquainted with genuine workplaces in the school.
1993 June: NUS's online record known as LINC (Library INtegrated Catalog) was made open comprehensively through Internet.
1993: The semester-based measured structure was exhibited, beginning with the Faculty of Business Administration. The structure offers understudies a more far reaching choice of subjects and grants them to propel at their own particular pace.
1994: The deliberate structure was extended to the Faculties of Arts & Social Sciences, Engineering, Science, and the School of Building & Estate Management.
1995: NUS commended its 90th recognition since its making.
1996: The school reported the dispatch of four turn off associations under the umbrella of NUS Technology Holdings Ltd (NUSH). The associations were made by staff from the Faculties of Engineering and Science and are in light of investigation results in NUS. NUSH was moved in 1995 as a business arm for school examination results and manifestations.
1997 The NUS Bioprocessing Technology Center (BTC) Incubator Unit was dispatched to bolster new or stretching out biotechnology associations to add to their business in the territory without expecting to make enormous straightforward endeavors. Totally arranged labs were made open by BTC to direct their investigation or test remedial prescriptions or engineered techniques.
1998 NUS proclaimed exercises to make an overall grounds under's IT Strategic Plan. Unmistakable tricks of the plan joined a Notebook Ownership Program for understudies, a Secure Plug and Play Environment, division adjusting in a virtual classroom, a propelled library, grounds wide keen card trades and the redesign of location theaters with media equipment.
1999: In line with the NUS's pushed to transform into an entrepreneurial focus point, the University together with NUS Entrepreneurship Society and the MIT $50K Entreprene.
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To be the main business college in Asia, all around perceived for perfection in instruction and examination.
Mission
To propel information and create pioneers in order to serve business and society
Core Values
Excellence: Deliver the best in instructing, research and administration
Integrity: Uphold the most astounding good and moral standards
Innovation: Embody interest, inventiveness and venture
Teamwork: Respect and motivate each other in our aggregate attempts
Care: Serve our group and protection nature
Vision & Mission Vision
To be the main business college in Asia, all around perceived for perfection in instruction and examination.
Mission
To propel information and create pioneers in order to serve business and society
Core Values
Excellence: Deliver the best in instructing, research and administration
Integrity: Uphold the most astounding good and moral standards
Innovation: Embody interest, inventiveness and venture
Teamwork: Respect and motivate each other in our aggregate attempts
Care: Serve our group and protection nature
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