The University of the Arts Singapore will award degrees offered by both institutions.
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s first government-supported private arts university will welcome its inaugural cohort of students in August 2024.
The university will offer an expanded range of programmes in fine arts, design, media arts, performing arts and arts management, as well as in new and upcoming areas in the applied arts, said MOE. Currently, LASALLE and NAFA award degrees in partnership with well-known overseas universities such as Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Music and the University of Arts London, and these programmes are subsidised by MOE.
About 2,500 students are currently enrolled at both LASALLE and NAFA, across degree and diploma programmes.Singapore’s future economy will need talent beyond the science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, disciplines including those from the arts and humanities, said MOE at the briefing on Tuesday.
Mr Camacho is the managing director and vice chairman of Credit Suisse Asia Pacific, based in Singapore, and was conferred the Public Service Medal in 2021 for his service to the National Gallery and the promotion of arts in Singapore.
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