Polytechnic schools generally offer fewer majors, usually within STEM fields. Their alumni networks may be smaller, and we have found that some people perceive them as less prestigious than ...

SINGAPORE – Even as the proportion of Singapore students opting for polytechnic after their O levels has risen over the past decades, the landscape of their chosen disciplines has always been in flux.

In 1973, when the mobile phone was not yet a thing and computers were still rare and blocky curiosities, Mr Lee Voon Phaw decided to study to become an electrical engineer at Ngee Ann Technical ...