Ready to start an exciting new journey and pursue an education in National University of Singapore? Overseas Training Program for senior high school graduates may be your chance. Our team is here to walk you through the application process and answer any and all of your questions along the way.
Qualifications
• The applicant must be a non-Singaporean citizen holding a foreign passport.
• Applicants have no criminal record, observe Singaporean government laws, regulations, and respect the customs and habits of the Singaporean people.
• Applicants should be over 18 years old.
• Applicants should be physically and mentally healthy.
• Applicants should be able to communicate in English.
Application Time: July 10, 2021 to September 1, 2021
Enrollment (入学) Date: September 10, 2021
Application Procedure
• Applicants should visit the official website to inquire about the 2021 admission information and fill in the Application Form.
• Applicants shall name the application materials according to the list, pack the folder and send it to our school and the school will evaluate the admission qualification.
• Applicants who have passed the admission qualification review will participate in the interview or written test organized by the department that you apply for.
• The qualified candidates will finally receive our admission letter.
Fees
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Full-time Graduate Programs |
Textbooks |
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Accommodation |
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$ 5,000 |
$ 500 |
$ 100 |
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Double |
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$ 500 |
My daughter was being thrown out of the sixth grade. The teacher said to me, "She may not be up to what we're trying to accomplish." He was really saying she didn't have the intelligence. I got mad because I knew she was smart, just as my father had known I was smart when I was failing in school. We had her tested and found that the troubles my daughter was having were the same as those I had had. I decided to get tested as well. She was dyslexic, and so was I. By then I was a successful television writer and producer. I'd won an Emmy for "The Rockford Files."
Had I known earlier, though, that there was a reason beyond my control to explain why I was a low achiever, I may not have worked so hard in my late 20s and early 30s. I was writing and writing. I was working for no other reason than to hear people praise me.
I needed that praise because I was carrying around the failure in studies. I did badly in all my courses.
I once asked a friend who had always gotten an A, "How long did you study for this?" He said, "I didn't. I just glanced at it." So what do I take from that? He must be smarter than I am. I began to ask, "What will happen to me when I'm not good at anything?" Despite my doubts, I did become successful, and people now say to me, "So you've overcome dyslexia."
No. You don't overcome it, you learn to compensate for it. Some easy things are very hard for me. Most people who go through college read at least twice as fast as I do. I avoid dialing a phone if I can, because I sometimes have to try three times to get the number right. I get that recording "The number you have reached is not in service" more than any man on earth.
Despite my weaknesses I view dyslexia as a gift, not a curse (诅咒). Many dyslexics are good at right- brain, abstract thought, and that's what my kind of creative writing is. And I can write quickly— I go like wind — and can get up to 15 pages a day. Writing is not the problem. That's my strength.
The real fear I have for dyslexic is not that they have to struggle with regular school studies, but that they will quit on themselves before they get out of school. Parents have to create victories whenever they can, whether it's music, sports or art. You can make your dyslexic child able to say, "Yeah, reading's hard. But I have these other things I can do."
Experts believe that the best time to teach kids language skills is when they are babies. Most times the task is easily accomplished with parents reading or talking to their babies. However, in some cases that is not possible due to parents' busy work schedules or when kids are born deaf. Now, a blue-eyed robot, a human image, and some high-tech neuroscience may be able to assist parents with this important developmental task.
The Robot AVatar thermal-Enhanced system, or RAVE, is the brainchild of a team of researchers led by Laura-Ann Petitto, an educational neuroscientist. The learning process begins when the robot's camera, which is focused on the baby's face, notices tiny changes in his/her body temperature. This, combined with the baby's facial expression, causes the robot to turn its head and guide the baby's attention to a computer screen, on which a human image starts to communicate with the baby. For example, if the baby points towards the screen, the image might respond, "Are you pointing to me?" and follow that up with a nursery rhyme or fairy tale, all in American Sign Language (ASL). The "conversation" continues until the kid loses interest.
The researchers found that babies as young as 6 to 8 months old began to move their hands in a rhythm similar to ASL after communicating with RAVE for just a few minutes. Petitto says natural language, whether communicated through speech or sign, activates (激活) the same parts of the brain and believes the rhythmic motion proves the babies are learning the essential elements of communication.
What sets this technique apart from other methods, such as showing educational videos or television shows, is its interactive (互动的) nature and real-time response to the baby's actions. The researchers say that while it is too early to determine the system's long-term influence on baby communication, the initial response has been very encouraging. Next, they plan to introduce a robot that can both sign and speak to babies.
The 2020 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to former U.S. Poet Laureate (桂冠诗人) Louise Gluck. The prize committee cited "her unique poetic voice that with plain beauty makes individual existence universal". Gluck is the first American woman to win the award since Toni Morrison in 1993. Gluck, 77, joins a list of literary giants and previous Nobelists who include, in this century, Canadian short-story master Alice Munro, Chinese magical-realist Mo Yan, etc.
Gluck's work includes 12 collections of poetry and a few volumes of essays on literary writing. "All are characterized by a striving for clarity (清晰). Childhood and family life, the close relationship with parents and siblings, is a theme that has remained central to her," Anders Olsson, the chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, said. "She seeks the universal, and in this she takes inspiration from myths and classical motifs," Olsson added, citing her 2006 collection Averno, which the committee described as "masterly" for its "visionary interpretation of the myth of Persephone's (珀尔塞福涅) fall into hell in the captivity (囚禁) of Hades(哈得斯), the god of death".
Being a professor at Yale and a resident of Cambridge, Gluck also served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2003 to 2004 and is no stranger to awards. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for her collection of poems titled The Wild Iris, in which "she describes the incredible return of life after winter in the poem Snowdrops," the Nobel literature committee said Thursday. She also won the 2014 National Book Award for the poem Faithful and Virtuous Night. In 2016, President Obama awarded the National Humanities Medal to Gluck in a White House ceremony.
The publicity-shy Gluck did not immediately issue any comment about the latest honor for her body of work, which spans more than half a century. In a 2012 interview, she acknowledged that prizes can make "existence in the world easier" but did not amount to the immortality(不朽) of a true artist.
Recent data shows that people in the U.S. can expect to live an average life expectancy (寿命) of 78.7 years. That puts Americans well behind that of 80.3 years in developed countries like Canada, Germany and Japan. Luckily, a 2018 study from Harvard University found that keeping these five habits could add up to 10 years or more to a person's life:
1 Maintain a healthy diet
This isn't as easy as it sounds, especially when you're dealing with your work, family and social commitments, may be tempting, for example, to grab a quick bite at a fast food chain on your lunch break or order takeout during late nights at the office. But a recent study published in the British journal found that poor diets lead to one in five deaths. A good diet, according to the researchers, contains minimally processed, whole foods and grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts and any natural source of protein (i.e. fish and beans).
2 Exercise daily
Even the world's most successful business leaders, like Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates, make physical activity a daily priority. Just small amounts of daily exercise can help maintain a healthy body weight, maintain healthy bones, muscles and joints, promote psychological well-being and reduce the risk of certain diseases, including some cancers.
3 Keep a healthy weight
A "healthy" weight varies from person to person, but usually a body mass index (BMl) between 18.5 and 24.9 is considered healthy. A study published in the International Journal of Obesity found that those who monitored their weight less frequently were more likely to gain weight.
4 Limit your alcohol intake
Alcohol shows up at happy hour, conferences, social outings and so much more. Therefore, it's hard to escape drinking it. To get through long days, some may even rely on alcohol as a stimulant (兴奋剂) in social settings. To begin with, it can add to your waistline and increase the risk of several cancers. While it can be difficult to moderate your alcohol intake, avoiding alcohol altogether benefits you a lot.
5 Don't smoke
As the health risks of smoking have become increasingly apparent, there's been more effort in warning people about the dangerous side effects. However, your body will thank you in the long run if you do so.
A. But there are many downsides.
B. That doesn't mean it'll be easy to kick the habit.
C. Start viewing the scale as tool to stay within the healthy range.
D. However, drinking heavily increases the risk of diabetes (糖尿病).
E. After you exercise, you continue to burn calories throughout the day.
F. It's absolutely essential to set aside time to exercise.
G. It can also lead to problems like high blood pressure and diabetes.
I grew up in a military family. When my parents retired from the army after eighteen years of 1, I had to study with those twelve-year-olds who shared no2 life experience with me.
Most of my new classmates had grown up together and they had no room to3 for a newcomer. I wore different clothes and spoke with a different accent. I had little4 of making friends. I5 for the first few weeks in my new school.
To deal with it all, I began6 in my diary every day. I wrote as if my life depended on it. I could not stand the loneliness7 I wrote it down in my diary.
One day, my teacher, Mrs. Bush, asked why I always sat there writing. I lied that I8 writing to playing. One week later, Mrs. Bush gave us a writing assignment (任务). I was9that I could now participate in something I knew I was good at. So I worked on the essay10 and handed it in. I thought it was the best chance for me to be11 by the class.
The next day, Mrs. Bush called me up to the12 of the classroom. I stood before my classmates and I got13. Was I in trouble? Did I do something wrong?
Then Mrs. Bush told the class how much she14 all the work that went into the essays and everyone had done a great job. But, she said, one student15 as an excellent writer. That student was me!
The class clapped their hands wildly and Mrs. Bush handed me my paper, with the following16on it," You are a very excellent writer. You17 your essay with your true feeling and creativity. Please keep on writing and share your18 of writing with the class." I made it.
Mrs. Bush helped me feel a sense of19and a way to go through the hard transition (过渡) in my life. She helped me gain20 in myself that stayed with me beyond my school life.
"Chinese Bookshelf" a project which aims to provide local readers with access Chinese books and culture, was launched Tuesday here.
(locate) inside Foyles Bookstore at Charing Cross Road, near the British Museum and Chinatown, the "China Bookshelf" (introduce) more than 100 kinds of books such as literature, folktale, economic publications and political works.
Carmelo Puglisi, head of foreign language books at Foyles Bookstore, told Xinhua that the bookshop has always attached great (important) to Chinese books as it started selling them years ago.
Liu Xiaoming, Chinese ambassador to Britain, said in a congratulatory letter to the launching ceremony the carefully-selected books in the "Chinese Bookshelf " will serve as a bridge for (culture) exchanges and a window for Western readers (understand) China.
"Chinese publishing has transformed itself in the last 10 to 20 years, it is now among the leading publishing (nation) of the world. I think the more the Chinese and Western publishers can develop global Chinese books, journals, databases, more understanding there will be between the East and West," he said.
Hi, Jane,
It had been almost half a year since I came to my new school. I think I should share with you one of the problem I have been facing.
As I told you last time, I have made three good friends here. We usual hang out together after school. We've been spending a lot of time singing in KTV. It has really cost me too many. I also think it is a time wasting activity! In fact, I don't want go any more, but I'm afraid I'll loss their friendship. How do you think I should do? If you are me, would you talk to us?
Please help with me and give me some advice.
Yours,
Grace
1)活动具体安排; 2)活动内容; 3)活动意义。
注意:1)词数100左右; 2)可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯; 3)开头和结尾已给出,不计人总词数。
参考词汇:中国美术馆National Art Museum of China 交换生exchange students
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