PROGRAMME 6.15pm Welcome & Briefing by Associate Chair ( - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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PROGRAMME

Welcome & Briefing by Associate Chair ( Academic) Introduction to NTU Libraries Resources and Access by Mr Law Loo Shien (CMIL) Proceed to Programme Briefing (venues): Mass Comm – Executive Seminar Room (Level 2) Info Systems – LT (remain where you are) Info Studies – MMC Room (Level 2) Knowledge Management – Seminar Room 2 (Level 2) Photo-taking session Dinner and interaction with faculty and alumni Collection of Matriculation Cards at Level 2, study benches near lift lobby (IS, Info Systems, MMC) Matric Cards for KM Programme will be distributed during programme briefing 6.15pm 6.35pm 6.50pm 7.30pm to 8.00pm 8.00pm to 9.00pm

Graduate Coursework Programmes Orientation - August 2015

Speaker:

Dr Mark Cenite Associate Chair (Academic) Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information

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Overall Graduate Coursework AY ’15-’16

• No. of Students

Full time Part time

122 (49.6%)

124 (50.4% ) Total no. of students: 246

Nationality

Singaporean Chinese Indian Myanmar Sri Lankan Filipino Others: Ind' sian, M'sian, Thai, Kazakh, Guinea- Bissau, Viet Chinese: 80 (33%) Others: 14 (6%)

Singaporean: 96 (39% )

Indian: 29 (12%) Myanmar: 15 (6%) Sri Lankan: 7 (3%) Filipino: 5 (2%)

Overall Graduate Coursework AY ’15-’16

Total no. of students: 246

Master of Mass Communication

Nationality

Singaporean Chinese Myanmar Indian Others (Thai, Indonesia, Filipino, Vietnamese) Chinese 13 (22%) Others: 4 (7%)

Singaporean: 39 (65% )

Indian: 2 (3%) Myanmar: 2 (3%)

Total no. of students: 60

Msc of Knowledge Management

Nationality

Singaporean Chinese Thai Indian Vietnamese Chinese: 40 (78%) Vietnamese: 1 (2%)

Singaporean: 6

(12% )

Indian: 3 (6%) Thai: 1 (2%)

Total no. of students: 51

Msc in Information Studies

Nationality

Singaporean Chinese Sri Lankan Indian Myanmar Filipino Indonesian Malaysian Chinese: 8 (18%) Malaysian: 1 (2%) Indonesian: 1 (2%)

Singaporean: 22 (49% )

Indian: 4 (9%) Myanmar: 3 (7%) Sri Lankan: 4 (9%) Filipino: 2 (4%)

Total no. of students: 45

Msc in Information Systems

Nationality

Singaporean Indian Chinese Myanmar Sri Lankan Filipino Others: Ind' sian, M'sian, Thai, Kazakh, Guinea- Bissau, Viet Chinese: 19 (21%) Others: 7 (8%)

Singaporean: 29 (32% )

Indian: 20 (22%) Myanmar: 10 (11%) Sri Lankan: 3 (3%) Filipino: 2 (4%)

Total no. of students: 90

Surviving Graduate School

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Key dates

• Semester 1 (AY2015-16) schedule

– Teaching: 11 August 2015 to 13 November 2015 – Recess: 28 September 2015 to 2 October 2015 – Exams: 16 November 2015 to 4 December 2015

• Course registration

– From 12 August 2015 (1100hrs) to 20 August 2015 (2359hrs) – Via Course Registration System in GSLink

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Academic integrity

• Work produced entirely yours
• Cite all references to others’ works
• Cannot submit the same work to different courses
• Penalty: failing grade, disciplinary action

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Research integrity

• Epigeum Research Integrity Module for NTU

Policy on Research Integrity and the Responsible Conduct of Research

– Completion of the module is a prerequisite for the IRB approval

Contact person: Dr. Benedict P. Agulto (WKWSCI Research Manager) bagulto@ntu.edu.sg

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Research integrity

• School’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) protects

human research participants

• Ethics review conducted by either the School or

NTU-IRB

– http://researchportal

• No data collection should be done before an IRB

endorsement letter is released

Contact person: Dr Benedict Agulto

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Student Wellbeing Center

• Professional Counselors and support staff
• Provides counseling in a private and confidential

setting at no charge

• Provides self-help resources (resource racks and
• nline)

#02-01, University Health S ervice Telephone: 6790 4462 studentwellbeing@ ntu.edu.sg http:/ / www.ntu.edu.sg/ studentw ellbeing

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Policies and Procedures

• Conversion of status (full-time/part-time)

– One time conversion only

• Candidature period

– Extension of candidature unlikely

• Withdrawal from programme

– By 20 August 2015 – Finance starts billing in week 3

• Leave of absence (LOA)

– Apply online and reasons must be provided (LOA is not allowed in the first semester)