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Sustainable Urban Development in Singapore

Imagining Walkability in an Urban Concrete Jungle

By: Melissa Liow Li Sa,Sam Choon-Yin

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Sustainable Urban Development in Singapore

Imagining Walkability in an Urban Concrete Jungle

By: Melissa Liow Li Sa,Sam Choon-Yin

This book offers theoretical and practical insights into land use, transport, and national policies in one of world’s well-known urban concrete jungle, none other than the Singapore city. The emphasis is situated on Singapore’s attempt to promote walking and cycling. Greater appreciation of walkability thrives on Singapore’s rich history, green city, people and the gastronomic kopitiam and hawker culture. The book offers a comprehensive coverage of walkability as a crucial component of urban design to reduce vehicular congestion with the associated carbon emissions, foster a healthy lifestyle and community participation and create jobs to help the economy. A high income per capita and an aging society, lessons drawn from Singapore’s experience will be useful to other societies. Scholars in sustainable tourism field, urban planners, government bodies, tourist boards, entrepreneurs, national parks board, residents, and inbound travellers will benefit from reading the book.

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335

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Springer Nature

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ISBN 10

9819954517

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9789819954513

Teaching Higher Education to Lead

Strategies for the Digital Age

By: Sam Choon-Yin

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Teaching Higher Education to Lead

Strategies for the Digital Age

By: Sam Choon-Yin

Competition to provide education is tense, attributed to the ease to access and process information. Technological development has also landed a terrible blow to the employment situation, which forces higher education institutions to review what and how their students learn. Yet, the desire to retain and grow the number of students and gain commercially can sometimes cloud judgment of educational leaders. They need to know that poorly made decisions hurt the businesses and students. In this book, Sam Choon-Yin explores how technological development has the potential to transform higher education. However, the same technology also has the potential to disrupt the education sector. The author provides a critical outlook on the prevailing practices of the higher education institutions. By drawing our attention to the various challenges, the author shows how teaching and learning can be effectively carried out in the digital age to serve the needs of students and hiring companies, and ultimately the institutions of higher learning. Understanding the issues and challenges means better design of and delivery of the curriculum. At a deeper level, the book raises a complex question of “what makes an education institution different” as they aim to define themselves by fulfilling students’ desire. Understanding these issues forms the basis of power for higher education institutions to remain competitive and relevant in the age of digitization.

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233

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Business Expert Press

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1637421648

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9781637421642

Private Education In Singapore: Contemporary Issues And Challenges

By: Choon-yin Sam

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Private Education In Singapore: Contemporary Issues And Challenges

By: Choon-yin Sam

Not much has been written about the private education sector in Singapore despite the fact that the sector houses about 300 private education institutions (PEIs) and enrolls about 150,000 students. Private Education in Singapore: Contemporary Issues and Challenges is an exciting book that aims to fill a gap in the literature. In the book, the author offers an extensive discussion on (i) the key elements of the sector — types and features of the PEIs, (ii) the regulatory framework for private education, (iii) students' aspiration and the impact of the ASPIRE report on PEIs, and (iv) the provision of external degree programme through transnational partnership. The book also tackles the hotly debated discussion in relation to academic quality and standard of PEI courses. The author identifies the reasons — some of them have more characteristics of a myth — and suggests a number of ways to overcome the issues and challenges.

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263

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World Scientific

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981322584X

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9789813225848

Teaching Higher Education to Lead

Strategies for the Digital Age

By: Sam Choon-Yin

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Strategies for the Digital Age

By: Sam Choon-Yin

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Book's by Sam Choon-Yin

Sustainable Urban Development in Singapore

Sustainable Urban Development in Singapore

Teaching Higher Education to Lead

Teaching Higher Education to Lead

Private Education In Singapore: Contemporary Issues And Challenges

Private Education In Singapore: Contemporary Issues And Challenges

Teaching Higher Education to Lead

Teaching Higher Education to Lead

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