Courses and Classes:
Continuing Education for expats in Singapore
Introduction
If you do not want to work, but rather develop your career further expats staying in Singapore are confronted with many choices. Private schools offering diploma and degree programs should be awarded the "Singapore Quality class for Private Education Organization award. Check with the web sites below for verification.
Learning Mandarin is very difficult but worth the effort if you consider the many new doors this language may open for you in Asia. While English is widely spoken in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia, you enter a different word once you arrive in mainland China where a foreigner with no Chinese language skills at all takes triple the time to adjust to his/her new environment.
The Chinese Language Proficiency Center offers intensive Mandarin Courses for 4 hours in the morning on five days weekly. Applicants must be graduates or current students of a tertiary institution.
Addresses
RELC Language Teaching Institute
30 Orange Grove Road
Tel: 6885 7862 http://www.relc.org.sg
Singapore Institute of Management
Open University Centre
SIM Clementi Centre
535 A Clementi Td Blk 82 Level 1
Tel: 6248 9361/2 http://ouc.sim.edu.sg
Center for Language Studies
National University of Singapore
10 Kent Ridge Crescent
Fax: 6 874 3328
Fax: 6 777 7736
E-mail: clsbox3@nus.edu.sg http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cls/frame_cse1.htm
Academ-Asia School
Chinese Language for Expatriates
1 Scotts Road
#18-01 Shaw Centre
Tel: 6734 9962
Other Languages
If Mandarin is not your cup of tea, get involved in another language. As an expatriate you next employment as an expatriate is secured if you are versed in other languages.
There are a number of Institutions offering part-time professional Development Courses in Singapore. Check out the website of the local and international institutions below
The British Council has dedicated a center for courses in this field which stetches far beyond English language courses.
Info British Council Singapore
Business English
British Council
Professional Development Center
143 Cecil Street # 17-01
GB Building
Tel: 6223 3767 http://www.britishcouncil.org.sg