By Amelia Tan

THE as-yet-unnamed fourth university to open in 2011 has secured the world's No. 1 technological university as its partner: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.

Education Minister Ng Eng Hen yesterday described MIT's role in the new university as its 'most substantive collaboration on undergraduate education to date'.

MIT professors will be in charge of developing the science and technology curriculum and use design to integrate the teaching of various disciplines. They will also teach.

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