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 Milestones 

 2005
  • The School of Health Sciences was established with the mission of becoming the premier health sciences education provider charged with nurturing caring professionals.
  • Pioneer batch of 160 Trainee Nurses Enrolled.
 2006
  • First Year enrollment swelled to 300 trainee nurses.
  • Total cohort increased to 460.
  • Lessons via PDA gains maturity
 2007
  • First year enrollment reached 400 trainee nurses.
  • Total cohort size hit 860.
  • Teaching and learning in state-of-the-art patient simulation centre optimised.
  • PDA as a education and professional resource introduced as a pilot study involving Third Year students.
 2008
  • The full-operation number of 500 First Year student cohort is reached.
  • Total cohort size hit 1200.
  • Pioneer batch of nursing students graduated (Class of 2008). 
  • Dionne Liew awarded Ministry of Health (MOH) prestigious Overseas scholarship. Attends the Ivy-League University of Pennsylvania.
  2009
  • Total cohort size hit 1400.
  • Pioneering batch of graduates reported full employment. All of the graduating class found jobs within the Nursing sector.
  • Full implementation of PDA as a teaching and learning tool for all students.
  • Optometry course was added to our diploma offerings.
  • Two of our pioneering Nursing diploma graduates obtained Bachelor of Science degrees from University of Queensland (UQ). They gained a 2-year exemption from UQ with their HSN dploma.
 2010
  • Full capacity of 1500 students reached.
  • Apple Ipod Touch replace the PDA as the mobile learning tool of choice.
  • Our graduates continued to set high standards. 
    • Marcus and Gayathiri received the MOH overseas and local awards respectively.
    • Shi Jia and Antoinette received NUS scholarships for their studies.
    • Shi Jia succesfully changed career path and entered the Life Sciences faculty and also received the Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship to encourage Upgrading award.
    • Three other graduates received the SingHealth scholarships.
    • A record number of 11 graduates gained direct entry into the second year of the NUS nursing degree programme.
2011
  • Opening of the state-of-the-art Ngee Ann Polytechnic Optometry Centre (NPOC).
  • Our graduates continue to do us proud:. 
    • Jolyn Chia received the Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship to encourage Upgrading (LKY-STEP) award. 
    • Forty out of 56 HS students who applied for the University of Manchester@Singapore Institute of Technology Degree in Health Sciences (Nursing) were offered a place. 
    • Chris Chen (Class of 2010) was accepted to read Law at a university in the UK
 2012
  • Coming soon.      
 
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