Since the topic is about "VIEWS ON UNIVERSITIES & DEGREES RECOGNITION IN SINGAPORE", I think I will share my real-life experience as well.
My distance learning I.T degree is from Uni of Newcastle, which I studied part time at PSB. It took me around 1 years 10 months to cover 10 modules and complete the degree.
My views on how recongized my degree is in the I.T industry. Ok, my experiences is still ok, smaller companies do not care where you do your degree, or how famous you degree is, at least applicable to the degree jobs I applied. Reason because elites (local grad) will seldom applied these companies so the smaller companies cannot be fussy as well. I do face problems with bigger MNC, where the interviewers are more cocky, proud, I believe because they have alot more applicants to choose from, thus the attitude.
However, after I clocked my experiences in the smaller companies, I do have job offers even from 1 of the stat board, even in bad times like this where jobs are supposely to be harder to find, because I have applied to like > 30 companies already and responses were very much slower than the past. In fact, I thought I stand no chance because I always thought government prefer local graduates and the job advertisment did state "Good degree in Information Technology with at least 2 years of experience". Pay wise I believe is still a decent degree salary, however, still lower than what I was expecting, but I do have no choice because due to the bad times now, it is really hard to get even get another job interview.
I hope this will give some encouragement to brothers out there, that even our government are willing to hire distance learning degree holders.
In fact, I am quite keen to try take up a part time distance learning MBA in future, to see if government do recognized it.