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PREPPING UP ITE’s FIRST DIPLOMA PROGRAMME by Jailani Nathan
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Schedule Students can apply for the new two-year diploma course from 26 November 2007 to 6 January 2008. Those who are successful can also look forward to scholarships and an 18-month job stint within the industry. For these students, a chance to further their studies in Germany’s Universities of Applied Sciences, also beckons. For a start, the TED in Machine Technology will open up a new progression path for some 50 ITE graduates from the Precision and Mechanical Engineering disciplines.
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ITE’s
first niche Diploma Programme, the new Technical Engineer Diploma (TED)
in Machine Technology course, has gotten off to a smooth start before
its official rollout in April 2008. Thirteen ITE Lecturers from the Mechanical
Engineering and Mechatronics Engineering Departments of ITE College West
have been identified and primed for their roles as TED Lecturers. They
went under the wings of consultants from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry
of Education, Youth and Sports training, and were put through a three-week
stint on curriculum and training methodology, since September 2007.
Mr
Koh Kim Hoe, Lecturer/Mechatronics Engineering, who was trained by the
German consultants, said of his training, “We were given a broad
overview of the range of topics taught within the German curriculum of
the TED equivalent. We also discussed and analysed the suitability of
the topics that would facilitate a natural knowledge and skills progression
for our students whose engineering foundation has been honed whilst in
ITE,” said Mr Koh. 