Professor Subra Suresh, president of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and former director of the US National Science Foundation, explains how the university has managed to consistently be among the top academic institutions in the world despite having only three decades of existence, and outlines Singapore’s strengths as an innovation, trade, and financial hub.
In the 4th Industrial revolution, the meaning of an educated person has changed. A young university graduate will have to continuously change jobs and professions, which means knowing not just one discipline and one skill but being multi-disciplinary and multi-skilled. It is about being able to learn continuously
