Three distinguished education providers discuss how to choose the right programme and how having a postgraduate degree is crucial to career advancement.
A bachelor’s degree is no longer sufficient to stay ahead in today’s increasingly globalised job market. A postgraduate degree provides an invaluable edge and makes a candidate stand out in a sea of similar resumés. But how does one choose the correct postgraduate programme?
EASB: Grooming future-ready students through digital learning
East Asia Institute of Management (EASB) is committed to preparing its students to become leaders in the rapidly changing professional landscape. To keep its students up to par with latest trends, EASB is working with industry partners to develop a comprehensive curriculum which will equip its pupils with new skills appropriate for future jobs.
“We are using SMART learning & teaching technology to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and relevance of both the skills/competence based curricula students learn and the teaching delivered by our lecturers and trainers,” explains Dr. Andrew Chua, principal & executive chairman of EASB. “We are working with the industry through their respective ITMs (Industry Transformation Maps) and associated Skills Frameworks (SFW) to produce work-ready graduates who will have the competence, confidence, commitment and creativity to be immediate value contributors to industry and society,” Dr Chua said.
As one of the leading private education institutions, EASB offers a comprehensive suite of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes that are future-focused and developed in consultation with industry, across major disciplines of Hospitality & Tourism Management, Business Management, Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Information Systems, Marketing, HR, Allied Health Sciences, Psychology, and many more.
This story is from the October - December 2018 edition of Singapore Business Review.
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