Higher Education Fair Helps Clarify

Choices! Choices! Choices! Students and parents who attended the annual Higher Education Fair in April were indeed certainly spoilt for choice. Nearly 50 institutions from countries ranging from Singapore to North America to the UK and Europe to Australasia attended this year’s Fair. A common question for many is ‘Should you continue studying in Singapore or take a leap of faith and consider studying overseas?’. Making significant career-related decisions can be stressful and daunting, whether it be selecting from traditional courses such as medicine, law and engineering or opting for high-tech related courses relevant in today’s world.

The annual Fair helps to reduce the stress by providing opportunity for parents/guardians and students to personally meet the representatives from the various local and foreign universities/organisations all under one roof. A ‘new’ addition this year was the PEAKS provider’s booth run by Research Communication International, the school’s psychometric profile provider. Parents were keen to find out more about the five factor PEAKS model which features a strengths-based profile centred on the belief that everyone is unique and that all differing strengths have value.

Representatives from the different institutions interviewed at the fair stated that it is always beneficial meeting students face to face to clarify any doubts, as well as providing them with detailed information on courses offered and exchange opportunities. Parents, guardians and students used this opportunity to collect information on different Institutions and courses, also collecting the latest updates on tuition fees, living expenses, accommodation etc and leaving the Fair with an armful of brochures!

The Participating Institutions were as follows:
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Singapore Management University (SMU)
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT)
Yale-NUS Singapore
Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS)
SIM Global Education
Temasek Polytechnic
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA)
LaSalle College of the Arts Singapore
SHATEC, The International Hotel & Tourism School
British Council Singapore (Study in the UK)
The University of Edinburgh
University of East Anglia
University of Warwick
The University of Nottingham
IDP Singapore (Study in Australia)
The University of Melbourne
The University of Queensland
Curtin Singapore
James Cook University (Singapore Campus)
Knowledge Intellegentia (Study in New Zealand)
DAAD (Study in Germany)
Jacobs University
TUM Asia (German Institute of Science and Technology)
USEIC (Study in the USA)
Education USA (Study in the USA)
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Asia
LIM College
DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore
Study in Canada
Study in France
Essec Business School
Swiss Education Group
Les Roches, The Global Hospitality Management School
Glion Institute of Higher Education
École Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL)
Spark Prep (SAT, ACT)
Testtakers Singapore (SAT, ACT)
ICON – The Test Preparation Specialist
Kaplan Singapore
SP Jain School of Global Management Singapore
IE University
UCAM – Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
SNFC (Singapore National Co-operative Federation)
BrightSparks Singapore
PEAKS