Tertiary/University WORLD RECORD
First Chinese University
Nanyang University was offi cially opened on 30 Mar 1958 with a substantial donation from wealthy rubber merchant and industrialist Tan Lark Sye. Taxi drivers and trishaw riders do- nated a day’s earnings toward the building of the university. The land in Jurong was donated by the Hokkien Huay Kuan.
EDUCATION SINGAPORE BOOK OF RECORDS
Biggest Donations To A University First Teachers’ Training College First College
Raffl es College was established in 1928 to provide tertiary-level education in the liberal arts and sciences. Its fi rst location was at Bukit Timah Road. The fi rst principal of Raffl es College, from 1928-1931, was Richard Winstedt.
First University
The fi rst university traces its origins to the founding of The Straits Settlements and Feder- ated Malay States Government Medical School in 1905. Its name was changed to King Edward VII Medical School in 1912, and to King Edward VII College of Medicine in 1921. It merged with Raffl es College in 1949 to form the University of Malaya in 1949. It became the University of Singapore in 1962.
The Methodist Church built an extension of Anglo-Chinese School in Cairnhill Road in 1928. In 1950, the building was taken over by the government and it became the fi rst Teachers’ Training College in Singapore. In 1973, it was renamed the National Institute of Education. In 1993, the Cairnhill building was converted into an arts centre housing theatre and dance groups.
First Internet Connection First Law Course
The fi rst Law course in the University of Malaya began in Sep 1957. LA Sheridan of Belfast was appointed to the fi rst chair in Law. The fi rst batch of graduates included Thio Su Mien who became Dean of the Law Faculty, Prof Tommy Koh, a law professor and ambassador, and Chan Sek Keong, the former Attorney-General.
First Social Work Course
The University of Malaya (Singapore) off ered the fi rst professional social work qualifi cation in 1952. With the two-year diploma in social studies, social work comes into its own as a profession.
First Game Software Engineering Course
First Medical School Building
When the fi rst medical school was founded in 1905, it used the premises of a former women’s mental asylum at Sepoy Lines. In 1911, the Tan Teck Guan Building was built with an endowment from Tan Chay Yan in memory of his father Tan Teck Guan. The medi- cal school was later renamed King Edward VII Medical School.
DigiPen Institute of Technology off ered the world’s fi rst bachelors degree programme in game software engineering - BSc in Real Time Interactive Simulation (RTIS). DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore is the fi rst interna- tional branch campus of DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, Washington.
Graduate School Fastest Growing Post-
The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy was formally established in 2004 as an autono- mous graduate school of the NUS. From an initial batch of 50 students, the intake grew to 110 in 2005, 220 in 2006 and 457 in 2007.
First Campus-Wide Wireless Internet
NTU was the fi rst in the Asia-Pacifi c to suc- cessfully implement a campus-wide wireless infrastructure with over 430 wireless base stations spread over 200 ha. Set up in 2000, the system is accessible to any member of the university with a portable computer and a wireless card.
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In 1986, the NUS team led by Dr Thio Hoe Tong and Dr Loh Wai Lung, and assisted by their City University of New York (CUNY) counterparts, achieved sporadic contact between NUS and CUNY through BitNet, a network maintained by a consortium of universities, most of them from the US. The fi rst offi cial email from CUNY to NUS was transmitted through a 4.8-kbps dial-up link on 13 Jan 1987, which is the offi cial date which NUS joined BitNet. This was not only the fi rst Singapore BitNet node, but also the fi rst such node in the whole of Asia outside Japan and Israel.
First WWW Server & Website
NUS established the fi rst Gopher server in the region in 1992, and the fi rst World-Wide- Web server in 1993. This was
www.nus. sg, pioneered by Dr Chen’s successor, Dr Tan Tin Wee. Dr Tan co-wrote Singapore’s fi rst webpage with Jek Kian Jin in September in the same year.
The largest donation ever received by a tertiary institution is S$100 million, made in memory of Dr Yong Loo Lin, a Hong Kong-trained doctor and businessman. NUS renamed the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in his honour in 2005. The Yong Loo Lin Trust which made the donation, also gave S$25 million to NUS in 2003 in memory of one of his daughters. The university’s Yong Siew Toh Conservatory is named after her. On 8 Mar 2007, Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-Shing also made a S$100 million donation to the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS. The money came from the Li Ka Shing Foundation, Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa.
First Government Scholarships
In 1885, top students were awarded the Higher Scholarships by Governor Cecil Clementi Smith to study at either Cambridge or Oxford universities in London. It was awarded to students from the three Straits Settlements territories. In 1889, Higher Scholarships were renamed the Queen’s Schol- arships. CS Angus and J Aitken, both from RI, were the fi rst two scholars awarded in 1886.
First Chinese To Win Queen’s Scholarship
Dr Lim Boon Keng, from RI, was the fi rst Chinese Singaporean to win the Queen’s Scholarship. He received it in 1887.
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