Glasgow builds educational links with Singapore

Issued: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:52:00 BST

The Faculty of Education was pleased to recently host a visit from the Singaporean Ministry of Education led by Ms Ho Peng.  The delegation were keen to understand how we, in Glasgow, educated students in the Expressive Arts and Citizenship.  They recognised all too clearly that an education programme which is exclusively or too narrowly tailored to the direct training needs of science, technology and the economy is apt to leave a polity bereft of the imaginative capacity needed to create and invent a range of responses, technological and social, to the pressing issues of the day. 

As well as having an enjoyable lunch the delegation joined with members of the Faculty of Education including the Dean and Professor Nolan, Senior Vice-Principal and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, in a meeting chaired by the Chancellor, Sir Kenneth Calman, to explore matters of mutual interest.  Following the meeting it was agreed that the University of Glasgow and the Singaporean Ministry of Education would embark on a series of measures to assist in the recruitment of teaching associates and teachers for the Singaporean education system.  Included in the proposed package is a very interesting opportunity for those wishing to take a year long position as an associate teacher in Singapore after which, and on their return to Scotland, they would be guaranteed a position on the Postgraduate Diploma in Education in the Faculty of Education with the obvious caveat that they receive an excellent recommendation from the Singapore Department of Education.

The Ministry of Education were also keen to recruit Glasgow University students in the areas of Expressive Arts and Citizenship on a range of projects. 

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