Amid the year-end wet and relatively cooler weather, a very warm welcome to the Higher Education Conference in Singapore (HECS) 2024.
This year, we are delighted to welcome our fellow educators from other autonomous universities (AUs) in Singapore to the conference. The conference, previously known as the Higher Education Campus Conference, has seen meaningful and enriching conversations around higher education among National University of Singapore (NUS) colleagues. We trust that the extension of the conversations to colleagues from other AUs would result in greater synergy and collaborations as we consider strategies and approaches in crafting opportunities from the challenges facing higher education today.
The participation of AUs other than NUS will be reflected at the panel session which will see representatives from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), and NUS. We trust that as the panel members share how their respective AUs have addressed the challenges of nurturing our students to become active citizens of society, you will gain insights and ideas on how you can weave in some of their approaches in your own classroom.
While the topic of mental wellness among our students will be discussed in some of the presentations, this year’s keynote address will focus on the often-overlooked topic of mental wellness among educators of AUs. Ms Katherine Loh from NUS Health and Wellbeing (NUS HWB) will address the challenging demands of a higher education educator. Unlike the previous two conferences, this year’s keynote address will be delivered in-person.
More importantly, with a total of about 100 paper presentations, lightning talks, and poster presentations from NUS and other AUs, we trust that you will be inspired by the approaches adopted to craft opportunities from the challenges, that you will gain from the conversations generated, and that you will possibly find new collaboration partners from the exchange of ideas.
Mounting such a conference would not have been possible without the strong support of the senior management of NUS, colleagues and friends of the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology (CTLT), and you as participants, from NUS and other AUs, who believed in the value of this conference.
Wishing you a fruitful conference!
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| Assoc Prof SEOW Teck Keong Deputy Director, Centre for Teaching, Learning, & Technology (CTLT) |
Assoc Prof Aaron DANNER Deputy Director, Centre for Teaching, Learning, & Technology (CTLT) |