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Keechiu and residents thank conservancy workers. 
My Buona Vista residents came together to give thanks to our conservancy workers this morning. Happy to join them bright and early to do our part for the environment.
Our Tanjong Pagar Town Council conservancy workers have helped to keep our neighbourhood clean and green. But we know there’s only so much that they can do to clean up after us, if we do not do our part to take care of our environment.
It is a shared responsibility for all of us to leave behind a sustainable Singapore for our future generations.
Chan Chun Sing added 7 new photos.
9 hrs ·My Buona Vista residents came together to give thanks to our conservancy workers this morning. Happy to join them bright and early to do our part for the environment.
Our Tanjong Pagar Town Council conservancy workers have helped to keep our neighbourhood clean and green. But we know there’s only so much that they can do to clean up after us, if we do not do our part to take care of our environment.
It is a shared responsibility for all of us to leave behind a sustainable Singapore for our future generations.
Keechiu joins residents to make snowglobes. 
Very happy to join residents at a snow globe making workshop this morning.
The resumption of activities such as this workshop provides our residents the opportunity to bond as a family, get to know their neighbours better, and pick up new skills in the process!
Chan Chun Sing
22 hrs ·Very happy to join residents at a snow globe making workshop this morning.
The resumption of activities such as this workshop provides our residents the opportunity to bond as a family, get to know their neighbours better, and pick up new skills in the process!
Keechiu enjoys beautiful sunrise.
#guesswhere?
Sunrise ride on a beautiful morning.
Giving thanks.
Wishing all a good Sunday!
Chan Chun Sing
13 hrs ·#guesswhere?
Sunrise ride on a beautiful morning.
Giving thanks.
Wishing all a good Sunday!
Keechiu thanks hairstylists.
Every last Sunday of the month, a group of professional hair stylists will provide complimentary haircut services for our seniors at MyBuonaVista Place at Blk 117, Commonwealth Drive, #01-729. This initiative is supported by In Hair Salon and Charity Hair-Cut Team.
Many thanks to them and My Buona Vista grassroots leaders and volunteers, for reaching out and taking care of our seniors.
Hair-py Sunday!
Chan Chun Sing
7 hrs ·Every last Sunday of the month, a group of professional hair stylists will provide complimentary haircut services for our seniors at MyBuonaVista Place at Blk 117, Commonwealth Drive, #01-729. This initiative is supported by In Hair Salon and Charity Hair-Cut Team.
Many thanks to them and My Buona Vista grassroots leaders and volunteers, for reaching out and taking care of our seniors.
Hair-py Sunday!
Keechiu had a chat with Owen.
As we introduce new initiatives and changes to our education system, one might wonder, what should teachers prioritise? Owen, one of our teachers, asked me this when we met at East Coast Park for a chat.
My view is that we should make available a good range of customisable tools and resources for our educators, while empowering them and giving them autonomy to pick and choose what is best for their students.
Watch part 1 of our conversation here: #CCSsgcycles
Chan Chun Sing
10 hrs ·As we introduce new initiatives and changes to our education system, one might wonder, what should teachers prioritise? Owen, one of our teachers, asked me this when we met at East Coast Park for a chat.
My view is that we should make available a good range of customisable tools and resources for our educators, while empowering them and giving them autonomy to pick and choose what is best for their students.
Watch part 1 of our conversation here: #CCSsgcycles
from straitstimes.com:
SINGAPORE - About 1,240 primary and secondary school students from low-income families will get more support in tutoring and mentorship from National University of Singapore (NUS) students following a $10 million donation.
Teach Singapore (Teach SG), a community programme where more than 700 NUS student mentors work with community partners to provide tutoring and mentoring, was officially launched at the University Cultural Centre on Saturday (April 16).
The donation came from real estate company Ho Bee Land.
One of the mentors is second-year medical student Celest Chiam, 21, who said: "I recognise that we were extremely privileged and we were able to receive many opportunities to attend enrichment classes and pursue our passions when we were younger. My group wanted to pay it forward through this project."
One of her mentees is Secondary 3 student Isabella Aw, who said she likes having someone she can relate to and has started taking her studies seriously.
"She motivated me to come to the mentoring sessions and pursue my dream to become a psychiatrist," said Isabella, 15.
The Teach SG programme was piloted by NUS in January last year.
Volunteers are trained to approach mentees with empathy and are given instructional materials, activities and games, as well as budgeting guides and survey templates, for the mentoring sessions, which last at least 12 weeks.
Each mentor can take on two mentees, or two mentors can take on a group of three mentees.
About 700 NUS students have been recruited and they work with 76 community partners, including primary and secondary schools and social service agencies.
NUS president Tan Eng Chye noted that coaching and mentoring children from less privileged families is particularly important amid the Covid-19 pandemic, where the acceleration of home-based learning has brought challenges to students who do not have a conducive learning environment at home.
"As academically able individuals who have benefited richly from the Singapore education system, NUS students can play our part in helping other students," he said.
On Saturday, about 70 student mentor team leaders were awarded certificates and a $10 million cheque was presented to NUS by Ho Bee Land founder and executive chairman Chua Thian Poh.
Minister for Education Chan Chun Sing, who was the guest of honour of the event, said that he hopes one day every undergraduate in Singapore will mentor a child from a disadvantaged family and be a positive role model to help the person navigate his or her formative years into adulthood.
"This mentoring journey by all our undergraduates would last for months or even years, (and) they would be giving back to the society and learning the importance of not leaving those who are less privileged behind," he said.
Mr Chan added: "Success must be when our undergraduates can take care of not only themselves and their families, but when they have that innate desire to want to do more and to do good for our society."
$10 million donated to NUS for Teach SG community mentorship programme
SINGAPORE - About 1,240 primary and secondary school students from low-income families will get more support in tutoring and mentorship from National University of Singapore (NUS) students following a $10 million donation.
Teach Singapore (Teach SG), a community programme where more than 700 NUS student mentors work with community partners to provide tutoring and mentoring, was officially launched at the University Cultural Centre on Saturday (April 16).
The donation came from real estate company Ho Bee Land.
One of the mentors is second-year medical student Celest Chiam, 21, who said: "I recognise that we were extremely privileged and we were able to receive many opportunities to attend enrichment classes and pursue our passions when we were younger. My group wanted to pay it forward through this project."
One of her mentees is Secondary 3 student Isabella Aw, who said she likes having someone she can relate to and has started taking her studies seriously.
"She motivated me to come to the mentoring sessions and pursue my dream to become a psychiatrist," said Isabella, 15.
The Teach SG programme was piloted by NUS in January last year.
Volunteers are trained to approach mentees with empathy and are given instructional materials, activities and games, as well as budgeting guides and survey templates, for the mentoring sessions, which last at least 12 weeks.
Each mentor can take on two mentees, or two mentors can take on a group of three mentees.
About 700 NUS students have been recruited and they work with 76 community partners, including primary and secondary schools and social service agencies.
NUS president Tan Eng Chye noted that coaching and mentoring children from less privileged families is particularly important amid the Covid-19 pandemic, where the acceleration of home-based learning has brought challenges to students who do not have a conducive learning environment at home.
"As academically able individuals who have benefited richly from the Singapore education system, NUS students can play our part in helping other students," he said.
On Saturday, about 70 student mentor team leaders were awarded certificates and a $10 million cheque was presented to NUS by Ho Bee Land founder and executive chairman Chua Thian Poh.
Minister for Education Chan Chun Sing, who was the guest of honour of the event, said that he hopes one day every undergraduate in Singapore will mentor a child from a disadvantaged family and be a positive role model to help the person navigate his or her formative years into adulthood.
"This mentoring journey by all our undergraduates would last for months or even years, (and) they would be giving back to the society and learning the importance of not leaving those who are less privileged behind," he said.
Mr Chan added: "Success must be when our undergraduates can take care of not only themselves and their families, but when they have that innate desire to want to do more and to do good for our society."
Keechiu visits Princess Elizabeth Primary School.
Collective groans from the students filled the room when the two robots became entangled while competing to push each other across the line.
But the students at Princess Elizabeth Primary School sprang back quickly, adjusted the positions and angles, and tried again, this time with success and excited cheers.
This is one of my favourite things about our young students – ever curious and eager to learn when their interest is piqued. Remaining undaunted in the face of failure is in many ways as important as celebrating achievements.
Sarah wants to win gold medals for Singapore in badminton. Yee Keat aspires to be an astronomer – because what can be more interesting than planets? And speaking like true digital natives, Kayden shared his ambition to be a professional gamer, and Tai Kiat a software designer.
Was glad to see the school doing good work in encouraging our students to explore their diverse interests, and nurturing their curiosity and resilience. Whichever paths our students choose to take in future, I hope they will always remember this -- that we never truly fail until we give up.
Chan Chun Sing added 7 new photos.
13 hrs ·Collective groans from the students filled the room when the two robots became entangled while competing to push each other across the line.
But the students at Princess Elizabeth Primary School sprang back quickly, adjusted the positions and angles, and tried again, this time with success and excited cheers.
This is one of my favourite things about our young students – ever curious and eager to learn when their interest is piqued. Remaining undaunted in the face of failure is in many ways as important as celebrating achievements.
Sarah wants to win gold medals for Singapore in badminton. Yee Keat aspires to be an astronomer – because what can be more interesting than planets? And speaking like true digital natives, Kayden shared his ambition to be a professional gamer, and Tai Kiat a software designer.
Was glad to see the school doing good work in encouraging our students to explore their diverse interests, and nurturing their curiosity and resilience. Whichever paths our students choose to take in future, I hope they will always remember this -- that we never truly fail until we give up.
Keechiu wants people to upskill. 
Earlier this year, I shared that we will need to upskill about half a million adult learners annually to meet industry needs for emerging skills.
How will we do that?
At the inaugural Workplace Learning Conference today, I shared 4 key observations:
Don’t hunt for the “perfect” employees, develop existing employees instead. Only hiring fresh graduates and poaching skilled employees will not help to expand our overall talent pool.
Bring our “schools” to adults. Working adults face diverse commitments and challenges. Our institutions must develop new andragogy that can meet adult learners’ needs — enable them to learn anytime, anywhere.
Strengthen exchange of knowledge between Institutions of Higher Learning (IHLs) and industry.
— Faculty staff going on industry attachments to gain frontier knowledge
— Industries setting up centres of innovation within IHLs to co-develop new solutions
— IHLs contributing their education expertise to refine and improve workplace training processes.
Help our smaller companies make sense of the demand for new skills and aggregate the demand for their training. Our SMEs employ 70% of our workforce, but often lack the resources to excel in workplace learning.
Some of our progressive companies are already making strides to evolve our skills ecosystem. 9 of them received the National Workplace Learning Certificate today for adopting best workplace learning practices, and supporting their employees in developing competencies.
Congratulations and well done! I hope in time to come, more companies will join this revolution.
ST Logistics, SMRT, SBS Transit Ltd, JLL, Metropolis Security Systems Pte Ltd, Active-SG, ST-Airport Services Pte Ltd, ST Healthcare Pte Ltd, SICK Product Centre Asia Pte Ltd.
Read my speech here:
https://go.gov.sg/workplacelearning
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Chan Chun Sing added 4 new photos.
Yesterday at 13:01 ·Earlier this year, I shared that we will need to upskill about half a million adult learners annually to meet industry needs for emerging skills.
How will we do that?
At the inaugural Workplace Learning Conference today, I shared 4 key observations:
— Faculty staff going on industry attachments to gain frontier knowledge
— Industries setting up centres of innovation within IHLs to co-develop new solutions
— IHLs contributing their education expertise to refine and improve workplace training processes.
Some of our progressive companies are already making strides to evolve our skills ecosystem. 9 of them received the National Workplace Learning Certificate today for adopting best workplace learning practices, and supporting their employees in developing competencies.
Congratulations and well done! I hope in time to come, more companies will join this revolution.
ST Logistics, SMRT, SBS Transit Ltd, JLL, Metropolis Security Systems Pte Ltd, Active-SG, ST-Airport Services Pte Ltd, ST Healthcare Pte Ltd, SICK Product Centre Asia Pte Ltd.
Read my speech here:
https://go.gov.sg/workplacelearning
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Keechiu joined his Muslim residents to break fast.
Really happy to join our Muslim residents to break fast last evening. First time we were doing so as a Tanjong Pagar GRC and Radin Mas Constituency family for two years!
Caught up with our residents and good to see everyone well. Thankful to our community partners and grassroots leaders and volunteers for organising this.
Chan Chun Sing
26 April at 19:36 ·Really happy to join our Muslim residents to break fast last evening. First time we were doing so as a Tanjong Pagar GRC and Radin Mas Constituency family for two years!
Caught up with our residents and good to see everyone well. Thankful to our community partners and grassroots leaders and volunteers for organising this.
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