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05 June 2020

According to Chito Salazar from the Philippine Daily Inquirer, education has to undergo an overhaul and a makeover – a re-imagination if you will.

With the internet now a repository of easily-accessible information, teachers must now step up to a new role as being facilitators of learning and not simply providers of knowledge. They must help students navigate the Web, search for and critically analyse information, and determine fact from fiction.

In reinventing themselves, educators also need to have self-understanding, self-esteem, and sufficient job motivation.

Teachers and colleges must also prepare students to embark on multiple careers over a lifetime, with a view toward lifelong learning as well. Education should refocus to offer competency-based certifications, even micro degrees, as opposed to multi-year degrees. The academic system should reflect a shift towards an emphasis on general competencies that apply over a wide range of careers and jobs.

It is equally important for the education authorities to ensure no learners are left behind in online classrooms as the world embraces online learning. Universities need to pivot rapidly to online delivery of content, and their future prospects as centres of education hinges upon their ability to thrive when lectures are delivered completely online.

However, the digital classroom will never completely displace the traditional campus classroom. Online teaching, at its best, can create a learning environment to ensure transference of knowledge, but cannot substitute the tribal needs of human interactions that define the complex teacher-student relationship in a physical classroom.

02 June 2020

This year, the graduating cohort of the Singapore Institute of Management will be given opportunities to obtain additional qualifications and new skills to boost employability.

SIM president and chief executive Seah Chin Siong said that the university will participate as a host company under the SGUnited Traineeships programme. Priority traineeship places will be given to SIM graduates with a good fit for the available positions.

The Government has promised 21,000 places for polytechnic, Institute of Technical Education and university graduates in the SGUnited Traineeships programme. For SIM graduates, traineeship stints will last up to 12 months, with trainees receiving a monthly allowance.

For graduates interested in taking up postgraduate diploma programmes, a $1,500 grant will be offered for courses in business analytics, digital marketing or human resource management for the upcoming intakes in September and January next year.

SIM students with financial difficulties will also be afforded enhanced bursary support.

31 May 2020

Full-time national servicemen under the work-learn Cyber NSF scheme will now be able to pursue part-time tertiary studies in Information Security at the National University of Singapore.

NUS has entered into an agreement with the Ministry of Defence to implement a scheme where NSFs can attend classes even if they have been deployed in operational roles.

This scheme is similar to one inked between MINDEF and the Singapore Institute of Technology in 2018.

At SIT, there have been four intakes of around 170 cyber specialists to date, with the pioneer batch graduating from the 35-week Cyber Specialist Cadet Course last August.

With MINDEF’s new agreement with NUS, NSFs will now be able to earn academic credits by taking modules from the NUS School of Computing’s Information Security programme. They can expect to graduate from university at the same time as their peers from the same national service cohort.

31 May 2020

Mr Bryan Koh developed a keen interest in cyber security at a young age. He acquired knowledge about the field by watching online videos about hacking and how these tools can be used to counteract cybercrime.

Bryan found that watching online videos was not enough to satiate his curiosity. With his sights set on the IT field, Mr Koh decided to apply for the Diploma in Infocomm Security Management at Republic Polytechnic through the Early Admissions Exercise (EAE).

In 2019, Bryan was awarded the RP Scholarship which inspired him to work even harder. Learning from his classes and interacting with various people in school also prepared Bryan for his overseas internship in Bangkok.

Bryan says his time at RP equipped him with the skills he needed for the internship, namely general IT knowledge, an understanding of IT security concepts, IT security risks and compliances, practical skills for offensive and defensive security, programming skills and more.

Bryan graduated with his diploma this month and is set to be enlisted for National Service later this year. While waiting, he is currently studying for a security certification.