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Ms Sabrina Loi
Divisional Director/
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(Chairperson)

Ho Mun Wai
Divisional Director/Continuing
Education & Training

James Ng
Divisional Director/
Industry-Based Training

Tan Wee Khiang
Divisional Director/
Student Affairs

Ms Ong Eng Neo
Manager/Corporate Relations

Ms Alice Seow
Course Manager/Lifeskills
ITE College Central

Ms Tham Mei Leng
Course Manager/Lifeskills
ITE College West

EDITOR
Mohd Jailani Nathan

Greater Autonomy with ITE’s New Collegiate System
In a revolutionary move to uplift the quality of its technical education and further sharpen its responsiveness in a capricious economic environment, ITE, comes January 2005, will be implementing the new “One ITE System, Three Colleges” Education Model. The revised governance model will spell major changes to the way ITE education is shaped.

New “ITE-Brand” Retail Personnel to Help Boost Retail Industry
A new breed of ITE-trained retail graduates who take pride in their work and provide top-notch customer service – this is what ITE aims to offer to the retail industry. These graduates, who will have the skills, knowledge and disposition to be outstanding in the retail trade, are what ITE plans to develop with its new Nitec in Service Skills (Retail) course, starting in January 2005.

ITE Students Sweep Record Number of Awards in Innovation Competition
Some 30 ITE students won a record number of nine awards in the Mayor innoBiz Awards 2004 – six for the Innovative Product Award (Open Category) and another three for the Young Entrepreneur Award (Open Category). This is the highest number of awards won by ITE students in a competition on innovative projects.

Tay Eng Soon Symposium 2004
Bring Back the Show Stoppers
The 500-strong participants of the Tay Eng Soon Symposium 2004 were taken with Symposium speakers, Mr Ong Chu Poh and Dr Kenny Yap, they wanted them back for more. Mr Aw York Bin, Deputy CEO (Industry), ITE, said: “…this is because the speakers shared experiences relevant to the theme of the Symposium – Enterprise and Innovation: New Challenges for Technical Education and Training.”

“I Will Follow My Heart and Dreams…”
They were just earnest faces in the crowd when they first started out their ITE education. But two fruitful years and several accolades later, Serene Yeo, Wee Phie Lip and Nanthakumaran stood out as they became known to many as ITE’s Top Medallists of Academic Year 2003/2004. The trio took a break from their books to reveal a little about themselves…

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