Course Leadership Move-In Programme (CLMP)

What is the programme about?

The Course Leadership Move-In Programme (CLMP) is a comprehensive programme that advances the T&L (Teaching and Learning) knowledge and skills for course leaders, focussing on 3 key aspects of course management:

• Leading Educational Change
• Leading Course Quality
• Managing Course Stakeholders

Delivered through interactive workshops, learning journeys, panel discussions, and a hands-on change challenge, the practice-oriented programme is designed to build both capability and confidence in navigating the challenges and opportunities in an evolving educational landscape.

CLMP strongly emphasises cross-poly learning, networking with colleagues from other polytechnics, and forming a supportive community of course leaders who can continue learning from one another beyond the programme. Participants will also gain an opportunity to appreciate innovations by other polytechnics through learning journeys, broadening their perspectives on what effective teaching and curriculum design can look like. In addition, the programme provides a platform for sharing common challenges and discussing them deeply to uncover root causes, exchange diverse viewpoints, and co-create practical solutions that can be applied back in their respective polytechnics. CLMP participants-in-action during workshops.

Structure and duration of CLMP

The duration of the programme is 100 hours offered over a span of 6 to 7 months. There are 3 intakes to date:

• Intake 1: March to September 2023
• Intake 2: May to November 2024
• Intake 3: July 2025 to January 2026
• Intake 4: July 2026 to January 2027

The learning experience comprises a 4-stage curriculum with the Anchoring, Equipping and Co-learning, Broadening and Co-creation and the Translation stages. Each stage is carefully designed to curate a varied, authentic and practice-oriented learning experience through interactive workshops, discussions, learning journeys, networking, fireside chats and group presentations. This provides ample opportunities for participants to engage key stakeholders to co-create practical solutions to pertinent course management issues or challenges (called “Change Challenges”) encountered in their respective polytechnics. Stages of the CLMP curriculum

1. Anchoring: Pre-course briefing

CLMP begins with a joint-polytechnic pre-course briefing, typically taking place about 1 month before the formal programme begins. It introduces the programme outcomes and provides the initial stage where participants get to know their peers from the other polytechnics and the organising committee members. To facilitate application of programme learning, participants are also primed to think of a Change Challenge in course leadership and management which they want to address.

2. Equipping and Co-learning: On-boarding Programme

The next stage is a 3-day face-to-face On-boarding Programme, encompassing workshops, fireside chats or panel discussion and learning journeys. At this stage, participants delve deeper into the three core CLMP focus areas of leading educational change, leading course quality and managing stakeholders. They also benefit from the sharing of on-the-ground experiences, theoretical concepts, perspectives and insights by invited school leaders, guest speakers or experienced facilitators who are ex-course managers or course chairs themselves. Dr Rajnish Gupta, Head of JP-AcE addressing CLMP participants during Onboarding Programme Day 1, 9 July 2025.

Panel discussion with Mr Melvyn Suan (Director, Centre for Industry and Lifelong Learning, NYP), Mr William Lim (Director, Sch of Business and Accountancy, NP) and Dr Tan Tuan Lin (Senior Director, Sch of Chemical & Life Sciences, SP), 11 July 2025.

3. Broadening and Co-creation: Series of Structured Conversations on Change Challenges (SCCC)

The programme then continues with four sessions of Structured Conversations on Change Challenges (SCCCs), offering authentic learning to help course leaders co-create practical solutions to their real-world Change Challenge. At this stage, participants deepen their knowledge and skills gained during On-boarding by applying the Design Thinking framework to work through their Change Challenge and arrive at solution prototypes. Participants also share their solution prototypes with fellow peers and invited stakeholders, gaining further feedback to enhance their ideas in preparation for the final Translation stage.

CLMP participants engaged in the various stages of solutioning for their Change Challenge using the Design Thinking Framework.

Besides classroom-based workshops and activities, CLMP also provide out-of-classroom learning experiences through site visits or learning journeys to various facilities across the polytechnics or external organisations. This provides an opportunity for participants to broaden their perspectives on innovative industry partnerships and T&L approaches.

Clockwise from top left: Learning journeys to various facilities across polytechnics, beginning with Dialogue in the Dark, NP (22 Aug 2025); Paramedicine Simulation Laboratory, School of Health and Social Sciences, NYP (10 July 2025); The Greenhouse, RP (19 Sep 2025) and School of Applied Science, TP (10 Oct 2025).

4. Translation: Reflection and sharing back at the respective polytechnics

The CLMP culminates in a final presentation to the respective school management of the polytechnics, where participants share solutions and ideas they have developed through earlier feedback and reflect on their CLMP learning journey. Translation sharing sessions (Intake 3, 2025)

Have a question related to CLMP?

Please contact the Programme Leads from JP-AcE: Ms Lau Poh Nguk , Mr Chris Pang