"NYP has been a valuable long-term technology partner
with Microsoft, thanks to its strong system capabilities
and a team of competent staff. In my recent two visits to
NYP, I was impressed by the high level of capabilities through
many complex industrial projects, which require an integration
of technologies such as wireless communications, intelligent
control, and design and software development. These projects
are relevant and very useful to the industry. I also saw
many active industry linkages at work and they are growing
stronger. The NYP-Microsoft Partnership and the Embedded
System Community are just two examples.
These achievements can be attributed to NYP's strong commitment
in investing in staff capability development. Together with
the able leadership and a strong development-oriented corporate
culture, NYP has certainly set a best-in-class standard
in tertiary education."
~ Mr Barney Lau, Managing Director
Microsoft Singapore Pte Ltd
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"I went to Nanyang Poly. I was impressed. They are
close to industry, they can respond to industry needs as
the needs change and they provide practical and useful training
to the students. So, as a result, the graduates are in great
demand, very well-paid and skilled."
~ Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
National Day Rally Speech 2005
Sunday 21 August 2005
at the University Cultural Centre, NUS
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"Our people have those creative skills and our polytechnics
and our ITEs, it's not just the universities. Nanyang Polytechnic
is producing good people who will be in demand for creative
industries and we're talking about hundreds initially, later
on maybe thousands, but it will make a contribution with
good jobs for Singaporeans."
~ Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's
National Day Rally 2004 Speech
Sunday 22 August 2004, at the
University Cultural Centre, NUS
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"In the Nanyang Polytechnic, there is a paradox of
a young institution having a wealth of experience. The potent
mix of youthful vigour, fruitful experience, world-class
training programmes, overseas connections and some of the
latest equipment in the world, is pushing the Nanyang Polytechnic
onward at a Fast Forward speed that can only be accelerated..."
- Mr Mickey Chiang, author of the book
"from Economic Debacle to Economic Miracle"
Times Editions, 1998
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"Dear Cheng Ton, You are already implementing many
of the ideas in this book at NYP. I salute you!"
~ Mr Peter B. Vaill, author of the book
'Learning as a Way of Being: Strategies for
Survival in a World of Permanent White Water',
giving his comments following his visit to NYP in 1999.
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"I was greatly surprised during the tour and witnessed
many innovative ICT programmes and industrial project activities.
NYP is on track to experimenting numerous indigenous and
innovative pedagogical training models which have position
the Poly well ahead of most IHLs worldwide in ICT education
training."
~ Mr Gorden Dryden, co-author of
'The Learning Revolution' in his feedback
following a visit to NYP in November 2002.
