ITE College Central

ITE College Central

Motto	Creative Learners, Innovative Workforce.
Type	Public
Established	January 1990
Principal	Dr Ang Kiam Wee
Administrative staff	Approx. 750
Students	Approx. 10,400
Location	Ang Mo Kio, Singapore 1°22′51.5676″N 103°51′27.1764″E / 1.380991000°N 103.857549000°E / 1.380991000; 103.857549000Coordinates: 1°22′51.5676″N 103°51′27.1764″E / 1.380991000°N 103.857549000°E / 1.380991000; 103.857549000
Campus	10.6 hectares
Website	Official website

ITE College Central is one of the Institute of Technical Education's three Colleges under the "One ITE System, Three Colleges" Governance and Education Model. It moved into its current premises at Ang Mo Kio in December 2012, together with ITE Headquarters. This third comprehensive College covers a land area of 10.61 hectares with a total gross floor area of 192,820m². It opened its doors to its first cohort of students in January 2013.^[1] Positioned as "A College of Creativity and Innovation", the campus was opened officially on 8 November 2013 by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.^[2]

History

Originally the ITE College Central schools are located at Bedok, Bishan, MacPherson, Tampines and Yishun until December 2012. Currently; the MacPherson and Yishun are being demolished to make way for condominiums/HDB Flats, Bishan became St Joseph's Institution and Tampines became a commercial building; while Bedok is being converted into a FIBUA village.

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.

Facilities

In Zentrum, the commercial belt, there are shops and restaurants open to ITE students, staff and the general public, such as NTUC FairPrice Supermarket, Popular Bookstore, First Culinary Restaurant, Eatzi Gourmet Restaurant 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 65-70kg(2014), most decorated Arm Wrestler in Singapore history.

References

↑ "Overview of Institute of Technical Education" (PDF).
↑ "Review to better match ITE, poly skills to jobs". Retrieved 20 December 2013.

External links

ITE College Central

Pre-university centres and post-secondary institutes in Singapore

Pre-university centres

Integrated Programme	Six-year Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) Dunman High School Hwa Chong Affiliate Programme Nanyang Girls' High School Hwa Chong Institution National Junior College NUS High School of Math and Science Raffles Programme Secondary: Raffles Institution/Raffles Girls' School Junior College River Valley High School School of the Arts Temasek Junior College Victoria-Cedar Alliance Programme Victoria School Cedar Girls' Secondary School Victoria Junior College CHS-SNGS-SCGS Joint Integrated Programme Catholic High School CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School Singapore Chinese Girls' School Eunoia Junior College Four-year National Junior College School of the Arts

Centralised Institute	Three-year Millennia Institute (MI)

Junior Colleges	Two-year Anderson (AJC) Anglo-Chinese (ACJC) Catholic (CJC) Eunoia (EJC) Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) Innova (IJC) Jurong (JJC) Meridian (MJC) Nanyang (NYJC) National (NJC) Pioneer (PJC) Raffles Institution (RI) St. Andrew's (SAJC) Serangoon (SRJC) Tampines (TPJC) Temasek (TJC) Victoria (VJC) Yishun (YJC)

Polytechnics

Nanyang (NYP) Ngee Ann (NP) Republic (RP) Singapore (SP) Temasek (TP)

Institute of Technical Education

ITE College East (ITE CE-SM) ITE College West (ITE CW-CK) ITE College Central (ITE CC-AM)

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