Haresh Sharma playwriting course at NUS lacked numbers to be ‘conducted meaningfully’

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Haresh Sharma playwriting course at NUS lacked numbers to be ‘conducted meaningfully’
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The local playwright, who is behind iconic plays like Those Who Can’t, Teach, was told five days before the start of the term that NUS “did not approve” his appointment.

Haresh Sharma and a sign at the National University of Singapore. SINGAPORE: The playwriting course taught by local playwright Haresh Sharma “lacked sizeable numbers” to be conducted “meaningfully”, said a National University of Singapore spokesperson.

“I’ve been teaching regularly at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences for the past few years. But this year I have been dropped without a reason,” he wrote in an Instagram post on Monday. In May, she was invited to return to teach the same module she had been teaching for the past few years, Voice Studies and Production.

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