NUS’ Senior Deputy President and Provost as well as the Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor of NUS, Professor HO Teck Hua, shared about NUS’ efforts in preparing for the 4^th Industrial Revolution, which encompasses the adoption of a fundamentally different education model that promotes lifelong learning, embracing exciting research opportunities that have high intellectual and translation values, and developing an innovation platform and community for creating powerful synergies. 

NTU’s Provost and Vice President (Academic), Professor LING San, shared about the shift in the way students would learn, and the need to learn, which called for new ways to meet this objective, such as leveraging on technology and innovation, focusing on outcome-based teaching and learning, experiential and collaborative learning.

SMU’s Provost and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor (Social Sciences) (now President Designate) Professor Lily KONG, presented SMU’s approach in nurturing future-ready citizens, through the focus on interdisciplinary teaching, research and innovation, closer collaboration with industry and society, lifelong learning, cross-cultural learning and exposure and also covered future plans for SMU in preparing students for the future.

SUTD’s President, Professor CHONG Tow Chong’s presentation highlighted five key areas in transforming higher education learning in response to the 4th Industrial Revolution, and how these have been implemented in SUTD. Set up to revolutionise the way engineering and architecture education aredelivered, SUTD’s pedagogy is vastly different from traditional universities. Itplaces greater emphasis on skills and attitudes beyond book knowledge, providing flexibility, exploration of choice and diversification in students’ academic pathways, and small group, active and interactive learning with an 11 to 1 student to faculty ratio. SUTD has also adopted an integrated partnership approach with a wide-range of industry partners to provide in-depth experiences of industry relevant education, research and internships,  aimed at nurturing industry- and future-ready graduates who will be prepared for the challenges in the 4th Industrial Revolution.