TODAY Online
In an opinion-editorial in Today, Assoc Professor Lim Sun Sun of the Department of Communications & New Media explains why confidentiality protection for youth offenders should be extended to age 18 because of the difficulty of “rewriting” one’s negative public image in the Internet era. She argues that this negative image can adversely affect community based rehabilitation efforts of youth offenders.
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27 February 2015
Lianhe Zaobao
This was a report on the two-day NUS workshop titled “Future Floods: An Exploration of a Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Flood Risk Forecasting”, a collaboration between the Environmental Cluster at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy’s Institute of Water Policy and AON Asia. Experts at the workshop shared that with global warming, future rainfall in Singapore is expected to be more frequent and higher in intensity. Professor Robert James Wasson, Senior Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS, and Assistant Professor Winston Chow, from the NUS Department of Geography, both noted that Singapore’s drainage system today is well-designed and has the ability to withstand high rainfall load. With the exception of flash floods or ponding incidents, the massive flooding episodes of the past are not likely to recur in Singapore.
2015 Marketing and Research Internship
Job Description
Introduction to SIP:
Social Innovation Park Ltd (SIP) is an impartial, not-for-profit organisation headquartered in Singapore that incubates social entrepreneurs and innovators worldwide to bring positive innovations to lives and societies.
Our many initiatives and projects are tailored to achieve our mission to Educate, Empower, and Enhance. As an incubator of Social Enterprises and Innovations, we strive to make a sustainable impact for a robust and dynamic social entrepreneurial community both locally and globally.
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Projects Description:
Global Social Innovators Forum (GSIF), SIP’s flagship event held annually in Singapore since 2006, seeks to build a community of changemakers and further push the boundaries of social innovation across people, public and private sectors, getting world leaders and global innovators across different sectors to collaborate for new paradigms and solutions, delivering on SIP’s mission of education, empowerment and enhancement. To know more, please visit http://www.socialinnovatorsforum.org/
GSIF will provide an invaluable learning opportunities for the intern to be involved in the planning and execution phases of a world class forum.
Pop and Talent Hub (PaTH), an initiative of Social Innovation Park Ltd (SIP), is Singapore’s first social enterprise talent development platform. PaTH champions social entrepreneurship via the arts by developing creative PaTH talents from traditionally marginalised groups. Through the initiative, PaTH talents gain access to mentors, networks, and commercial sales platforms that give them opportunities to develop their talents to create a sustainable business ventures. At the same time, PaTH creates a mindset change in the community by showing that every person can positively contribute to society. To know more, visit http://popandtalenthub.com/
PaTH shall provide the intern first-hand experience of working with marginalised talents in the community as well as managing finances of a market, gaining broad experience as to how to work with artists from marginalised sections of society in Singapore.
Responsibilities:
To apply, please send your resume to your school or hr@socialinnovationpark.org. You can contact Ms Soh Sue Ping at 6312 8802 for more information.
Sunday, 1 March 2015
Lianhe Zaobao
This was an article contribution by Associate Professor Thang Leng Leng from the Department of Japanese Studies at NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Assoc Prof Thang reflected on the two-day conference organised by the Next Age Institute (NAI) at NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and discussed the challenges that Asian countries encounter as a result of an aging society.