Posts by Hafsah Begum

RVRC students had the opportunity to visit Edible Garden City, an urban farm in Singapore, as part of the new RVRC curriculum introduced this AY. During the fieldtrip, students were exposed to different kinds of urban farming technologies and behind-the-scenes production work. Towards the end, students also had the opportunity to taste some fresh microgreen…

Victor Zhu from the graduating Class of 2020 (NUS Faculty of Science), is the co-founder and CEO of Hatch, an impact-driven social enterprise he founded and incubated with two like-minded friends during his undergraduate years at NUS Ridge View Residential College (RVRC). Victor first conceptualised Hatch in his second year at NUS. His RVRC lecturers…

From AY21/22, RVRC will offer a new two-year programme, closely aligned with the enhanced NUS General Education Curriculum. RVRC will offer new modules that map to four out of the six NUS General Education pillars. The four pillars offered by RVRC will be: Community & Engagement (RVN), Critique and Expression (RVX), Cultures and Connections (RVC),…

By going beyond classroom learning, RVRC students work on projects that address local sustainability problems in Singapore. Through inquiry into sustainability issues from different disciplinary perspectives, analysis of problems in real‐life settings and engagement with key stakeholders to implement sustainability solutions, they are encouraged to develop change agent capacities. Research has shown that sustainability education…

Recognising student achievements in the RVRC Programme The college is pleased to announce the Honour Roll for the RVRC Programme AY20/21. Please join us in congratulating these students, who were selected for their meritorious academic performance and active engagement. Students listed on the Honour Roll will receive the RVRC Digital badge for ‘Outstanding Performance’, in…

2 student teams represented RVRC in the “Practicing Experiential Learning Conference 2021” organized by SUSS – https://lnkd.in/gCJVDfu on 1 April 2021. The 2 teams presented in the poster presentation session. They are: 1. “Planting seeds of hope – reforestation in Sumatra” by Benjamin Png, Nysha Tan, Kong Qi Herng 2. “Debris Survey at Jurong Lake”…

In collaboration with the National Parks Board, Dr. Chua and students from RV FoRestore held the annual Forest Restoration Workshop online. Topics shared included Singapore’s Forest Restoration Action Plan, lessons learnt from monitoring plots at Chestnut Nature Park, and the use of aerial photographs to trace past land use impact on forest recovery. The workshop…