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You can shop & dine in this school
The New Paper | Thu Sep 23 2010
ITE's new campus houses a hotel, restaurant and even a supermarket.
THIS building houses a hotel, a fine-dining restaurant, a Shop N Save supermarket and a Yamaha music store.
Welcome to the new ITE College West.
And the good news is most of these facilities are not only for students or staff - members of the public can also go there to buy groceries, dine and shop.
Why open their doors to the public?
"Because we're right next to thecommunity," said the school's principal, Dr Yek Tiew Ming.
The swanky new building in Choa Chu Kang, which opened in July, occupies a land area of about 10 football fields.
During a media tour of the campus yesterday, Dr Yek said the facilities are designed to help the students be more "work ready".
"We provide students an authentic environment forthem to practise in," he said.
Four clusters
The building has four school clusters: School of Business and Services, School of Electronics & Info-Comm Technology, School of Engineering, and the School of Hospitality.
Hospitality students learn how to run the 22-room West Vista Hotelon campus.
The hotel's industry partner is the five-star Four Seasons Hotel Singapore.
"We work with big names and train our students to a five-star standard," said Dr Yek.
Mr Goh Mong Song, deputy principal (development) & director of the School of Hospitality, said the school has received enquiries about the hotel, which is open to students, staffand corporate partners.
Students also learn how to prepare meals and wait tables at the in-house restaurant, Amber@West, where trainee chef students do the cooking.
Said one student there, Aaron Liew, 19, who is in his first year of a Nitec course in food & beverage operations: "I've learnt endurance as I stand for more than 12 hours while waiting tables."
The ITE-Boncafe Barista Training Centre will train the students to be coffee baristas.
At the School of Engineering, students doing courses in automotive technology practise on real cars of various makes.
The School of Business and Services intends to set up a travel agency as well as three retail shops that will be run by students.
The school already has a retail training lab which resembles a real-life boutique, complete with mannequins and a cash register.
While this lab is not open to the public, the travel agency and other shops will be.
The idea is to have a "fenceless college", said Mr Peh Wee Leng, covering director and deputy director of the School of Business & Services.
Students like Aaron support that idea.
He said: "By letting the public experience ITE, they can see what we are capable of, and give ITE students a chance to work for them later on in real life."
This article was first published in The New Paper.
You can shop & dine in this school
The New Paper | Thu Sep 23 2010
ITE's new campus houses a hotel, restaurant and even a supermarket.
THIS building houses a hotel, a fine-dining restaurant, a Shop N Save supermarket and a Yamaha music store.
Welcome to the new ITE College West.
And the good news is most of these facilities are not only for students or staff - members of the public can also go there to buy groceries, dine and shop.
Why open their doors to the public?
"Because we're right next to thecommunity," said the school's principal, Dr Yek Tiew Ming.
The swanky new building in Choa Chu Kang, which opened in July, occupies a land area of about 10 football fields.
During a media tour of the campus yesterday, Dr Yek said the facilities are designed to help the students be more "work ready".
"We provide students an authentic environment forthem to practise in," he said.
Four clusters
The building has four school clusters: School of Business and Services, School of Electronics & Info-Comm Technology, School of Engineering, and the School of Hospitality.
Hospitality students learn how to run the 22-room West Vista Hotelon campus.
The hotel's industry partner is the five-star Four Seasons Hotel Singapore.
"We work with big names and train our students to a five-star standard," said Dr Yek.
Mr Goh Mong Song, deputy principal (development) & director of the School of Hospitality, said the school has received enquiries about the hotel, which is open to students, staffand corporate partners.
Students also learn how to prepare meals and wait tables at the in-house restaurant, Amber@West, where trainee chef students do the cooking.
Said one student there, Aaron Liew, 19, who is in his first year of a Nitec course in food & beverage operations: "I've learnt endurance as I stand for more than 12 hours while waiting tables."
The ITE-Boncafe Barista Training Centre will train the students to be coffee baristas.
At the School of Engineering, students doing courses in automotive technology practise on real cars of various makes.
The School of Business and Services intends to set up a travel agency as well as three retail shops that will be run by students.
The school already has a retail training lab which resembles a real-life boutique, complete with mannequins and a cash register.
While this lab is not open to the public, the travel agency and other shops will be.
The idea is to have a "fenceless college", said Mr Peh Wee Leng, covering director and deputy director of the School of Business & Services.
Students like Aaron support that idea.
He said: "By letting the public experience ITE, they can see what we are capable of, and give ITE students a chance to work for them later on in real life."
This article was first published in The New Paper.
