Posts by Hafsah Begum

Industry Visit to Asian Civilisations Museum The Asian Civilisations Museum is devoted to exploring the rich artistic heritage of Asia. The museum traces its roots to the Raffles Museum, founded in the middle of the 19th century. RVRC Year One students had an opportunity to explore the historical connections between the cultures of Asia, and…

The 4th RVRC Annual College Symposium and networking session ‘Action for Sustainability’ The 4th RVRC Annual College Symposium and networking session ‘Action for Sustainability’ showcased 57 posters and 5 inspiring project presentations by RVRC year one students for the module GEQ1917 Understanding and Critiquing Sustainability. RVRC welcomed Professor Leo Tan as keynote speaker for the event,…

Industry Engagement for Year One Students – CapitaLand Year One students from RVRC visited CapitaLand at Capital Tower and CapitaGreen on 13 April, as part of industry engagement. The visit included an interactive showcase of CapitaLand’s corporate mission, urban development vision and unique value positioning in the international real estate arena, using scaled architectural models of…

TIMELESS: A Voyage Through Time On 8th April RVRC’s music interest group – Jukebox, brought the audience on a journey through time with their enthralling performances of some of the greatest hits across different eras. TIMELESS: A Voyage Through Time, was the theme for this year’s Jukebox annual concert. It was inspired by a simple idea…

RVRC CIP-Project Home Haven Community Service   Students and staff from RVRC participated in the day-long Project Home Haven Community Service along with Mdm. Rahayu Mahzam, MP for Bukit Batok East. This event was organised by RVRC in joint collaboration with People’s Association Youth Movement, Bukit Batok East Community Club Management Committee and the Health Promotion Board on 07 April 2018. 84 student volunteers from…

RVRC hosts Minister Masagos Zulkifli for SWWD RVRC hosted Mr. Masagos Zulkifli, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, to witness its 10-hour water rationing exercise in conjunction with the Singapore World Water Day 2018 on 22 March 2018. It was part of the series of events for NUS Save Our Water campaign. Water supply for all six residential blocks…

WR1401 Workplace Readiness: Active learning using sport climbing RVRC Module WR1401 Workplace Readiness expanded its use of the active learning pedagogy during semester 2 of AY 2017/18. Instructors facilitated a three-part sport climbing session, to enable students to map their individual experiences to classroom concepts of personal effectiveness. Sport climbing is a form of rock climbing…

Action for Sustainability Symposium, RVRC Year 1 students at Ridge View Residential College learn about sustainability challenges in the module GEQ1917 Understanding and Critiquing Sustainability and undertake group projects where they identify and research sustainability issues in a realistic manner – through quantification of observations, dialogues with industry mentors and deliberations with their academic advisors. In response…

RVRC DIV-Dialogue with Ms Kia Jie Hui Ms. Kia Jie Hui, Senior Sustainability Advisor at Forum for the Future, was the invited speaker for a dialogue session with year one RVRC students on March 12th. Ms. Kia is responsible for driving sustainability developments for Forum at their APAC office in Singapore, helping businesses across the region to use…

RVRC DIV to Baba House RVRC organised an industry visit to Baba House at 157 Neil Road on 22 February 2018 as part of its DIV series for Year One students. The objective was to understand the threat to architectural heritage in urbanised Singapore while getting the opportunity to learn more about the Peranakan culture and…