SINGAPORE ASSOCIATION FOR PRIVATE EDUCATION (SAPE) Management Committee Meeting and Members Networking Event
Date : 24 Oct (Thu)
Time : 2 – 5 pm
Venue : Training Room 1-2
Lifelong Learning Institute
11 Eunos Rd 8, Singapore 408601
Agenda
2 – 3 pm : MC Meeting
3 – 3.30 pm : Registration of SAPE Members
3.30 pm to 5 pm : Sharing by LLI and ESU NTUC
Speaker # 1 : Mr Tan Boon Yick, SkillsFuture Advisor, Lifelong Learning Institute.
SYNOPSIS
Preparing students for the workforce? Join us on 24 Oct for a SkillsFuture partnership briefing session!
This session will highlight the potential areas of collaboration between private education institutes and our SkillsFuture Advisory team to empower students with the tools and knowledge they need to thrive in a skills-based economy.
Through engaging workshops we will dive into the most in-demand careers within the Digital, Green, and Care economies, detailing the skills, resources, and pathways to succeed in these growth sectors. The sessions will also address the importance of critical soft skills and personal development via our RIASEC personality profiling tool that will help students make better career choices based on their strengths and career interests.
Our collaboration will pave the way for students to be “Skills Ready,” positioning them for long-term success in their careers.
Speaker Profile:
- Boon Yick is a SkillsFuture Advisor with Lifelong Learning Institute.
- His professional career was in banking where he spent more than 25 years in the banking and finance industry.
- His experience in banking spanned across relationship management, risk management, credit portfolio management and trading.
- Prior to becoming a SkillsFuture Advisor, he also ventured into training, consultancy and tour guiding.
- As a trainer Boon Yick conducted workshops in the area of finance and technology.
- Boon Yick is a firm believer in lifelong learning and was awarded the Lifelong Learner’s award by Singapore Tourism Board for his contributions to tour guiding in continued upskilling and training during the covid pandemic.
Speaker #2 : Ms Siti Zubaidah Ahmad, Senior Specialist, Essential Domestic Services, e2i
The NTUC’s Employment and Employability Institute, known as e2i, plays a crucial role in Singapore’s workforce development landscape. Dedicated to enhancing employability, e2i offers a suite of customized services and programs catering to individuals and companies alike. This session aims to share on how e2i can effectively collaborate with your organisation to bolster workforce capabilities, foster productivity enhancements and facilitate sustainable growth.
Speaker # 3 : Mr Tan Wee Lee, Principal Industry Training Officer, NTUC
This session will show how private education institutions (PEI) can leverage on support from NTUC. PEIs can form Company Training Committee (CTC), chart an Operation and Technology (OTR) Roadmap and tap on the Company Training Committees (CTC) Grant, gaining access to strategic planning and financial support to adopt technology & productivity solutions to achieve business transformational success, thereby resulting in better wages, welfare and work prospects for workers.
Profile
- Wee Lee is a passionate and hands-on Training and Development practitioner with more than 20 years of working experience in the training and education sector..
- He is certified to conduct Operation and Technology (OTR) Roadmap and identification of transformation projects for organizations
- As a Principal Industry Training Officer, Wee Lee mobilise companies to form Company Training Committees (CTs) and identify transformation strategies & key jobs and skills initiatives for the workers to be aligned with organisation’s business goals. He also establishes collaboration between CTC partners and training & technology solutions vendors to curate a suite of transformational programmes and projects to upskill the workers within the sector.
