Goal Three – An Increased Global Presence for ITE

The third goal is to enhance ITE’s international presence by broadening ITE’s strategic alliances and collaboration with the international vocational technical education community.

Through international collaboration, ITE will deepen its linkages for learning, sharing and exchange programmes with institutions in both the advanced and developing countries, such as USA, Canada, Germany, China, India and Vietnam.

ITE will further extend the availability of its courses through Singapore-based private training providers who wish to offer ITE courses with their local partners in overseas countries under a licensing framework. ITE is the first post-secondary educational institution to offer its national ITE certifications overseas under such a licensing agreement.

Goal Four – An Enhanced Core Capability for Organisational Excellence

To be a global leader, ITE will also strengthen its core capabilities in technical education by establishing Centres of Technology (COTs) in the three ITE Colleges.

The COTs will develop core capabilities in niche areas, in collaboration with key industry partners. In this way, the Colleges can also begin to differentiate themselves and forge their individual identities. For the start, the Colleges have identified their niche areas as follows:

ITE has accumulated much expertise and experience in vocational technical education. A Centre of Excellence for Vocational and Technical Education will be set up to focus on the development of educational capabilities in areas such as curriculum design, learning technologies and performance-based assessments and campus development.

This Centre will be the depository of ITE’s experiences and tasked to undertake educational research, collaboration with other leading institutions, provide consultancy services or help benchmark ITE’s capabilities in technical education.

Conclusion

In conclusion, ITE has achieved a significant transformation as a post-secondary institution since its establishment in 1992. It has created a unique ITE Brand of Education that is not only attractive to school leavers and adult learners, but also widely recognised locally and internationally for its relevance, quality and values.

The new “ITE Advantage” will take ITE beyond its current vision of a world-class technical education institution.

The “ITE Advantage” will help ITE achieve its new vision of “A Global Leader in Technical Education”. It will take advantage of the opportunities presented in the ever-changing global, social and economic environment. It will create new competitive advantages for ITE students and stakeholders in facing the challenges of the knowledge economy. It is about building the next generation of a globally competitive and highly-skilled workforce.
 

In doing so, the “ITE Advantage” will further enhance the unique ITE Brand of Education, an Education that is “Hands-on, Minds-on and Hearts-on”.