校长室邮件 NTU校长即将卸任！回顾NTU近年发展

I am very proud of how all of us at NTU worked together to keep our campus and our people safe and secure during the past two years of life with the pandemic, while continuing to excel in our mission to propel NTU into the top echelons of academic institutions. I will leave knowing that NTU is a global leader taking its rightful place among the top Universities of the world. Together we have strengthened NTU’s foundation which my successor will be able to build on. At this time of reflection, there have been so many accomplishments by all of you, our faculty, staff, students, and our leadership team, during the past few years in which I take great pride:

- NTU’s research volume has seen significant growth, setting a new annual record in each of the past several years. This reflects the very high quality of the scholarly work of NTU researchers as these funding decisions typically follow independent international peer review of the quality of research proposals. In the past few years, the number of all publications by NTU faculty in top research journals across fields has doubled.

- The University launched an Interdisciplinary Common Core curriculum and internship opportunities, the first-of-its-kind in Singapore, for all undergraduate students in August 2021 as part of the NTU 2025 Strategic Plan to improve our teaching outcomes and to prepare our students for lifelong learning. The FlexiMasters programme for continuing education at the Master’s degree level, launched in 2020, has already grown to more than 35 curricular offerings from all parts of the University. The NTU Priorities Fund created in 2020 with private philanthropy from our community helped hundreds of students in financial need during the pandemic. NTU’s first interdisciplinary School across the Colleges of Engineering and Science will be established this year.

- Our international reputation is increasingly well-recognised. Up to 11 NTU academic subjects are now placed among the top ten in the world, with up to four subjects considered the best globally, highlighting a significant ascent in NTU’s intellectual stature. As a young university, the impressive climb of NTU has now placed it within the top 50 in the world in all three major global assessments, for the first time in its history. NTU has also emerged as a global top young university for seven years in a row by one key international measure. Indeed, the UK government has recognised these achievements and announced, just last week, that NTU graduates will be among those selective cohorts from the top universities in the world to receive a special visa to seek employment in the UK.

- The growing reputation of NTU has been clearly reflected in our ability to attract talent from Singapore and leading universities around the world, with more than 350 faculty members recruited just in the past four years (even during the pandemic), including new Distinguished University Professors and senior leadership team members from prestigious universities. The Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows Programme, launched in 2018, has now become the most competitive young talent attraction scheme at NTU, with more than 1,050 applications for only 12 positions even during the height of the pandemic in 2020.

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