The Education Ministry will open up another 1,000 university places
this year, bringing the total number of places at the six
universities, including the Singapore Institute of Technology and
SIM University to 14,000.
This means the Government will reach the target of providing
university places for 30 per cent of an age group a year earlier
than planned.
Education Minister Heng Swee Keat announced this in a Facebook post
today as he congratulated SIT on being gazetted an autonomous
university.
With the new status the five-year-old SIT can confer its own
degrees, unlike before when it awarded only joint degrees with
overseas institutions, such as Glasgow University and the Technical
University of Munich.
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