NTUC and the Singapore Institute of Management University (UniSIM) have joined forces through two memorandums of understanding signed on 14 December 2016 to help some 2,000 professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) and another 850 local bosses from small- and medium-enterprises (SMEs) keep up with skills demands in an evolving economy.
UniSIM is the latest institute of higher learning to partner NTUC, following Nanyang Technological University and the NUS School of Continuing and Lifelong Education.
MOU with e2i
The first MOU between NTUC's e2i (Employment and Employability Instit... and UniSIM is for a period of three years. When so the courses start?
Both sides will develop new initiatives to help the workforce benefit from UniSIM’s modular courses in areas like Supply Chain Management and Data Analytics.
In a joint statement, NTUC emphasised that the Labour Movement is doing this as it recognises the need to help workers continuously build up their skills to meet the dynamic demands of the labour market in a competitive global economy.
"The level of training and development will be targeted at the PMETs. As we know the PMETs are an increasingly important part of the Singapore workforce and they will also be increasingly facing the challenges of turbulence within the workforce.The collaboration between NTUC, e2i and UniSIM will open up even more avenues for PMEs to upgrade," said NTUC Deputy Secretary-General Heng Chee How.
MOU with U SME
The second MOU between NTUC U SME and UniSIM's School of Business is to develop training programmes for SME bosses.
One of them is the Executive Development Programme in Mandarin.
31 SME bosses have come on board so far.
NTUC Assistant-Secretary General and Director of U SME Secretariat Yeo Guat Kwang added: "We hope to provide SME bosses with the platform to learn and share good business practices and identify opportunities in the future economy. As our SME partners grow their businesses, the workers under their care will also benefit.”
The English version of the programme will be rolled out in the first or second quarter of 2017.
Source: NTUC This Week
