ITE College Central

ITE College Central (ITE CC) is one of the Institute of Technical Education's three colleges under the "One ITE System, Three Colleges" Governance and Education Model.

ITE College Central
工艺教育中区学院
ITE College Central building in April 2019
Address
2 Ang Mo Kio Drive, Singapore

Ang Mo Kio

Singapore
Coordinates1.3775°N 103.8564°E / 1.3775; 103.8564
Information
TypePublic
Government
MottoCreative Learners, Innovative Workforce.
Established2 January 2013 (2013-01-02)
PrincipalMr Suresh Natarajan
StaffApprox. 750
Number of studentsApprox. 10,400
Campus size10.6 hectares (26 acres)
WebsiteOfficial website

Campus

This third comprehensive college covers a land area of 10.61 hectares with a total gross floor area of 192,820m2. It opened to its first cohort of students in January 2013.[1] The campus was opened officially on 8 November that year by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.[2]

History

Originally the ITE College Central schools are located at Bedok, Bishan, MacPherson, Tampines and Yishun respectively until December 2012. Currently MacPherson and Yishun branches are being demolished to make way for HDB MacPherson Spring and Symphony Suites condominium respectively, Bishan branch have been demolished and became free land. While Tampines branch became Middleton International School (Tampines Campus); while Bedok became Land Transport Authority (Bedok Campus). The new campus replaced Bedok, Bishan, MacPherson, Tampines and Yishun campus will moved into its current premises at Ang Mo Kio in December 2012, together with ITE Headquarters.

Now, the other two campuses of ITE are located at the East and West respectively. ITE College East is located at Simei and was opened in January 2005. While ITE College West is located at Choa Chu Kang and was opened in July 2010.

Principals

ITE College Central Principal
Name of PrincipalYears Served
Dr Ang Kiam Wee 2013 - 2019
Dr Suresh Natarajan 2020 - present

ITE College Central Deputy Principal
Name of Deputy PrincipalYears Served
Mr Chong Leong Fatt 2013 - present

Culture and traditions

Uniform

Students are to wear the prescribed uniform. Inside the collar, there is a colour that represents different courses. Students are required to be in Physical Outfit for Physical Activities, students must change back to school uniform after physical activities. The Physical Education T - Shirt is a plain white shirt with two strips of the course colours. The colours below represents different types of courses :

  • Green - School of Electronic & Info Comm Technology
  • Blue - School of Design & Media
  • Yellow - School of Business and Services
  • Orange - School of Engineering

Academic schools and courses

ITE College Central has four Schools (School of Business & Services, School of Design & Media, School of Electronics & Info-Communications Technology and School of Engineering) running a total of 51 courses.

Traineeship

ITE College Central has traineeship course. Traineeship course consist of experience trainer, ITE and the person who sign up for traineeship. It helps to gain a head start in career, will receive a certificate as a full-time student but will receive an additional certificate. Once the person who sign up for traineeship gets accepted, training will start immediately. Traineeship has different of varieties of different courses and different course needs different criteria to enter.

Facilities

In Zentrum, the commercial belt, there are shops and restaurants open to ITE students, staff and the general public, such as Popular Bookstore, First Culinary Restaurant, POSB Bank and Koufu Foodcourt. Also located in ITE College Central is ITEepitome, an authentic training facility for students to work and interact with customers in a genuine commercial setting.

Notable alumni
  • Valen Low, head of Singapore Arm Wrestling club, Oceania Arm Wrestling Champion u80kg(2014), Asian Youth Arm wrestling Champion 65–70 kg(2014), most decorated Arm Wrestler in Singapore history.
  • Romeo Tan, Mediacorp artist actor
  • Sashi Cheliah, winner of Masterchef Australia in 2018

References
  1. "Overview of Institute of Technical Education" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-20. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
  2. "Review to better match ITE, poly skills to jobs". Retrieved 20 December 2013.
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