Collaboration with IAL

We are pleased to partner IAL to provide a platform that brings our academic staff together to exchange andragogical know-how, best practices, and ideas to enhance the adult learning experience. Fostering an active and collaborative community of adult educators with diverse capabilities, experiences and perspectives can help to further raise the quality and spark new possibilities and innovative solutions for an expanding adult learning sector.

This collaboration will help enhance the Teaching & Learning expertise of adult educators in the Training and Adult Education (TAE) sector in Singapore. The polytechnics play a significant role in training Singapore’s workforce to meet the current and emerging demands of the workplace. With this partnership, educators will now have an additional avenue to share best practices with the TAE community and adapt these learnings in their curriculum delivery to better prepare learners for the workplace of the future.

This partnership will foster a strong culture of professional collaboration and pedagogical excellence across the institutes of higher learning, and further enhance the standing and quality of training and adult education in Singapore. It will play an important role in the co-construction of knowledge amongst the educators as they learn from each other, with each other and through each other. The establishment of a community of practice will be an enabler for educators to share pedagogical knowledge and collectively advance the lifelong learning cause.

As digital transformation and globalisation accelerate changes in how we live, learn and work, the workforce needs to update their knowledge, skills and competencies to bridge the gap between their education and training, and the demands of a rapidly evolving economy. Through the signing of this MOU, Singapore Polytechnic hopes to entrust our adult educators with the ability to align curricula design and content with in-demand jobs and skills to successfully supplement the talent pool of today and the future.

This collaboration is a good opportunity for SSG, SUSS-IAL and the polytechnics to work together in the area of adult education. Temasek Polytechnic is excited to see how we can enhance our contribution to the growing Training and Adult Education sector in Singapore, through various communities of practices and partnerships. Through this partnership, we look forward to deepen cross-institutional staff exchanges, and further build up capabilities in the training and development of adult educators as well as research in adult learning methods.