Singapore, September 30, 2022: Today, the President of the Republic of Rwanda His Excellence Paul Kagame who is in Singapore for a three-day working visit, presided over the signing ceremony between the Ministry of Education represented by Minister of State in charge of ICT and TVET and Nanyang Technological University.

The partnership will allow Rwandan students to pursue their studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University starting next year. The development succeeds several initiatives that have previously been reached between Rwanda’s Ministry of Education and the Nanyang Technological University, mainly on academic exchange.

This follows the partnership signed in June last year Minister of Education Dr. Valentine Uwamariya and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) President, Professor Subra Suresh, for both parties to cooperate in different education programs.

Under the partnership, both parties agreed to establish Fellowship programmes for undergraduate, postgraduate students and specifically presidential postdoctoral fellowship programmes which will fund the fellows to conduct collaborative research at NTU.

Based on performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence, Nanyang Technological University is ranked among the 35 best global universities.

Other key areas included master’s degree programmes with a particular focus on technology structured to mix online and on-campus learning styles to facilitate students to take some of the courses in Rwanda and others in Singapore.

Rwanda and Singapore have strong partnership in the areas of investment, trade, education, rule of law, technology, and air transport service among others.