Acknowledgement

2020; Marinoni et al., 2020). It is therefore hoped that the lessons learned from this current study could provide useful references to a wider community in higher education and adult training beyond Singapore to emerge stronger from the pandemic.

The study was funded by SkillsFuture Singapore Agency. We thank SSG divisions for their kind support and inputs.

We would like to thank all the adult educators who participated in this study. Thanks also go to our other research team member Ms Tan Baozhen and research associate Dr Mike Niederpruem who helped at various phases of the project.

We would like to express our special thanks to our collaborator Professor Richard Watermeyer from the University of Bristol, for his conceptual inputs and analytical advice. Thanks also to our supervisors Dr Renee Tan, Dr Helen Bound, Ms Sim Soo Kheng and Professor Lee Wing On for their valuable inputs.

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