Continuing Professional Development Partnerships

IAL and SkillsFuture Singapore signed two memoranda of understanding to provide more opportunities for the continuing professional development of TAE practitioners, who can in turn raise the learning effectiveness and experiences for adult learners. The signing ceremonies were held at the SkillsFuture Forum in July 2022, graced by Education Minister Mr Chan Chun Sing.

The first memorandum of understanding was inked with Singapore’s five polytechnics – namely Nanyang Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Republic Polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic and Temasek Polytechnic – in a first-ever collaboration in continuing education and training. IAL’s expertise in adult learning will be combined with the polytechnics’ institutional capabilities in education and industry outreach to build a community of practice that facilitates exchanges and sharing of best practices among teaching staff, adult educators and adjunct educators. The partnership will also involve the curation, development, and delivery of industryrelevant TAE programmes, as well as short-term twoway attachments between IAL and the polytechnics.

In the second memorandum of understanding, IAL, SkillsFuture Singapore and NTUC LearningHub will collaborate on continuing professional development to build adult educators’ domain and andragogical skills at scale. In this agreement, all parties will strengthen NTUC LearningHub’s Career Agility Hub as a platform for the community of adult education practitioners to build up their skills and careers portfolio. This platform would further allow IAL to aggregate the skills needs of adult educators and train them for market readiness based on their job profiles and skills gaps.