讲座摘要：Globalisation has “shrunk” the world and created an unprecedented interconnectedness between nations and peoples.  Knowledge-based economies and societies are likely to become increasingly dominant even in the post-financial crisis world.  Against this backdrop, we are witnessing the rise of “global universities”, institutions characterized by their global vision and aspirations, research impact and thought-leadership, and which recruit faculty and students worldwide and pursue and contribute to international benchmarks and innovative practices.  An area of particular importance and concern is how universities can better equip and prepare their graduates to best meet the challenges and seize new opportunities in a globalised world.

 Central to this is an understanding of key shifts necessary in global higher education: that most graduates are unlikely to have “a career for life” but a “lifetime of careers”, working in many different jobs in different sectors. In addition, graduates must be able to work effectively not only in local but global settings, with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.

This lecture discusses the National University of Singapore’s multi-dimensional approach in dealing with these challenges.  This includes nurturing the “thinking” graduate who is able to identify and frame new problems and not merely solve pre-defined ones, who has the ability to learn how to learn, long-term and across disciplines, and whose training combines depth with sufficient breadth.  The presentation draws on the experience of a range of NUS programmes to consider how we might nurture graduates to be global citizens who are effective in different cultural settings, and who embody the “explorer” spirit characterised by boldness, risk-taking, resourcefulness, and resilience.  In particular, NUS has focused on creating a diverse and intellectual stimulating environment in which transformative learning can take place and which give students a greater appreciation of globalisation, with particular reference to Asia.

The presentation concludes by highlighting three path-finding NUS initiatives which exemplify its philosophy and evolving vision of global education.

主讲人简介：Professor TAN Chorh Chuan was appointed President of the National University of Singapore in Dec 2008. He is concurrently the Deputy Chairman of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).
A renal physician, he obtained his medical training at NUS, and research training at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford. He was Dean of the NUS Faculty of Medicine from 1997 to 2000. He served as the Director of Medical Services, Ministry of Health, from 2000 to 2004, in which capacity he was responsible for leading the public health response to the 2003 SARS epidemic. He held the positions of NUS Provost, then Senior Deputy President from 2004-2008. As Deputy Chairman of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Governing Board from 2004-2007, he played a key role in setting up the partnership. As the inaugural Chief Executive of the National University Health System in 2008, he brought the NUS Medical and Dental Schools and the National University Hospital under a single governance.
Professor Tan is a key leader in Singapore’s Biomedical Sciences Initiative since its inception in 2000, for which he was awarded the National Science and Technology Medal in 2008. He also received the Public Service Star in 2003 for outstanding contributions to overcoming SARS in Singapore, and the Public Administration Gold Medal in 2004 for his work in the Ministry of Health. Other awards include the Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal from the Polish Academy of Medicine and the 1996 Singapore Youth Award.
Since 2008, he was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global University Leaders Forum. He is also currently Chair of the International Alliance of Research Universities, a consortium of 10 leading research-intensive universities.
Professor Tan was previously a Commonwealth Medical Fellow, Wellcome Fellow, University of Oxford, and a Visiting Scholar to Wolfson College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh,  Royal College of Physicians of  London, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the American College of Physicians, elected Fellow of the Polish Academy of Medicine and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, UK.

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