GLOBAL EXPOSURE

To enable them to become effective global players, TP students and staff are given exposure to the international arena and its complexities.

One way in which we expose students to the world is through exchange programmes. In March 2007, 15 Temasek Business School students spent three weeks at the University of Western Australia (UWA) where they did a course on Australian culture. As part of the exchange programme with the University, 20 students from UWA attended a three-week intensive course on TV production at TP. Besides providing the desired global exposure for our students on and off campus, the programme also highlights the high quality of TP’s programmes.

Four Product & Industrial Design students had the opportunity to go to Mexico to work with Air Design, a leading automotive manufacturing and design company.

In this review year, almost 400 TP students also experienced living and working life abroad under the Overseas Student Internship Programme. This Programme enables global mindsets to be nurtured and developed in our students that will make them highly mobile in the future. Our students served attachments in countries such as Australia, China, India, Ireland, South Korea, USA, Mexico and Vietnam.

TP is host to international students from many countries such as China, India, Myanmar and Indonesia. They literally bring the world to TP, and provide a richer learning experience for our local students when they share their own cultural uniqueness with them. To bring this to the fore, the International Relations & Industry Services Department organised the “Celebrate! Global Community @ TP” event in July 2006 to help promote a greater awareness and understanding of the many cultures and countries that are represented at TP.

As part of our strategy of global engagement, TP partnered the MFA in delivering tourism and hospitality related training under the auspices of the Singapore Cooperation Programmes Training Awards and Small Islands and Developing States Technical Cooperation Programme. Participants came from as far away as Armenia, Poland, Yemen and Zimbabwe. Our participation in such programmes provides valuable international exposure and cross-cultural experiences for our staff, and this helps to enrich the curricula they deliver to our own students.

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