SDF Available for CMI courses
Chartered Management Courses are now approved by WDA and Employers can benefit using the SDF at PMET level.
Visit Skills Connect Website to apply for the funding:
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CMI (UK) Courses Launched in Singapore.
Eduquest International launches world's most prestigious qualifications in Management and Leadership. Free Course Preview is available.
For enquiries and registration, please contact 6338 7151 or email : training@eduquest.com.sg.
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Speech by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on 29 August 2010...Productivity
“Productivity has to be the responsibility of all of us, to keep learning and upgrading, to increase our value and contribution and that is the way Singapore can stay ahead of the competition. Our firms can do well and all of us can improve our lives.”
National Day Rally Speech (English) by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on 29 August 2010
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British High Commissioner to Singapore Witnesses MoU Signing between Eduquest International Singapore and Exponential Training & Assessment Ltd, UK
“Training enhances productivity. Well-trained employees are more capable and willing to assume more control over their jobs.” With less supervision, this would free senior management for other tasks.
In a speech at the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) Signing between Eduquest International Singapore and its UK counterpart Exponential Training & Assessment, the British High Commissioner to Singapore who was the Guest-of-Honour (GOH), His Excellency Mr Antony John Phillipson, on Thursday 28 April 2011, extended his congratulations to both companies and wished them a fruitful and prosperous relationship in the years ahead.
The MoU signing marked the GOH first official engagement as the British High Commissioner to Singapore, since he presented his credentials earlier in the day to Singapore President S R Nathan.
Highlighting the importance of managerial training in his address, , His Excellency the British High Commissioner Mr Phillipson said “Any business, regardless of size, will rely on its managerial staff to serve as a solid foundation for the business to improve and grow. Training helps managers feel prepared to handle their day-to-day responsibilities in ways that minimise risk to the company while improving relationships at the workplace.”
Expressing his delight, H.E. Mr Phillipson, who felt privileged to witness the cementing of partnership between Eduquest International and Exponential Training & Assessment Ltd, remarked that the MoU Signing was very appropriate because in the three weeks he was in Singapore, he was struck by the potential for partnership between UK and Singapore in the field of education and professional training.
“I have already met the President of NUS, chief executives of ASTAR and the National Research Foundation, and had the pleasure to host a reception at my Residence for the visiting vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. On Monday this week I witnessed another important partnership ceremony, between the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal College of Music in London.The fact that thePrime Minister was alsothere wastestament to its significance.
The MoU signing between Eduquest and Exponential Training & Assessment and the earlier events mentioned earlier, had two common themes. “First, the intense focus in Singapore on economic progress and development. And at the heart of that is a focus on productivity.
The Singapore Government has indicated that productivity improvement is one of its key priorities for 2011. In the budget, it enhanced the Productivity and Innovation Credit to further encourage companies to invest in activities that foster productivity and innovation, of which Training of Employees is a key strand.”
“The second common theme” he added “ is the broad recognition of the UK’s outstanding reputation for excellence in education and skills – from the development and export of educational equipment, resources, technology and software to sustainable education, corporate training and further and higher education.”
“...it is self evident that when you can bring together these two themes – the ambition to develop and increase productivity through top class training on the one hand, and a source of world class training on the other, there is the potential for a genuinely exciting and mutually beneficial partnership.” “And now we see the latest manifestation of that potential.”
Find more: http://ukinsingapore.fco.gov.uk/en/news/?view=News&id=594417582