Over the past three decades, the Corporation has built up a wealth of
experience and expertise in the areas of industrial parks development and real estate management and would like to share this knowledge with its external partners.

With the establishment of the Academy, JTC’s customers can choose from a broad spectrum of training programmes. Technical courses like those relating to industrial parks development and real estate management will be complemented by soft skills training in customer service, business communications and IT.

In fact, in October 2001, JTC launched the Customers Learning And Synergising Programme (CLASP) to encourage the learning and upgrading of skills among industrialists. Some of the courses offered to customers under CLASP include Building Maintenance Technology and Facilities Management. Over 300 participants from some 180 companies have benefited from the training. The sessions also open up a world of networking opportunities for them.

With the setting up of the Academy, JTC will be widening the repertoire of training programmes offered to its customers.

Said JTC Assistant Chief Executive Officer and Director of the JTC Academy, Mr Seah Kee Pok, “In this new knowledge-based economy, it is imperative for employees to have a learning mindset. The employee of today must be adept at learning, unlearning and relearning. What this means is that he/she must be always ready to learn new skills, unlearn obsolete ones and relearn newer and more relevant skills.”

In recent years, the JTC Academy has also broadened its outlook beyond the shores of Singapore to conduct training for foreign delegates from countries like China, Brunei and Thailand. For example, it has trained some 80 delegates from China under the Suzhou Software Transfer Project.

Moving on, the Academy will forge strategic collaborations with renowned tertiary institutions, professional associations and training consultants. By tapping on the knowledge and expertise of strategic partners, the JTC Academy will be able to provide enhanced training programmes for its customers.

In addition, the JTC will also harness IT to provide its customers with direct and convenient access to information on the Academy. By the first quarter of 2003, customers will be able to log on to JTC’s customer portal, Krypton, from the comfort of their homes or offices to view the whole range of training programmes offered by the Academy.