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CIE Mission :
To be the leading centre for promoting innovation and entrepreneurship through partnership with industry, skills development, mentoring and resource support
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SOH Mission :
To be the leading school of hospitality in Asia for nurturing
students into business savvy and discerning professionals with
customer-oriented mindsets
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Happenings in the CIE Pipeline For The Next
Quarter
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Talk by Standard Chartered
Bank: “Continuous
Improvement”
3 October 2008
Republic Poly
Ms. Lydia Lim, Vice
President of Standard
Chartered Bank, will share
insights on how a global
organisation like Standard
Chartered Bank value
Continuous Improvement (CI)
and embraced it as a
corporate objective; what
constitutes CI and what
procedures/processes the
Bank has put in place to
implement CI as an
organisational-wide
initiative.
This talk is scheduled on 3rd
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Talk by Fraser & Neave
Group: “Preparing for
Overseas Assignment”
17 October 2008,
Republic Poly
Mr Wong Luck Jaen, GM of
Corporate HR, will share
F & N Group’s experience
on how employers &
employees can prepare
for international /
overseas assignments;
the success factors and
things to avoid for such
assignments; the
pre-posting preparation
and what should be done
to prepare the employee
upon arrival at country
of posting; and post
assignment actions when
the employee returns to
home country (especially
after a long period
overseas). This talk is
scheduled on 17th
October
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National Pushcart
Challenge 2008
17 - 18 November 2008
HDB Toa Payoh Hub
In its second year
running,
the National Pushcart
Challenge (NPC) was
initiated as a platform
for all secondary
schools who have
participated in CIE’s
Entrepreneurship
Education Program (EEP).
Through this
competition, secondary
schools will be given
the opportunity to pit
their entrepreneurial
skills with each other
in this nationwide
competition This
competition seeks to
raise the profile of the
EEP as well as to bring
together schools on a
common entrepreneurial
platform to enhance
students’ learning.
Building on last year’s
success, this year’s
competition sees 132
students from 22 schools
participating in this
competition. NPC 2008
has also been invited to
be part of a global
entrepreneurship
initiative titled Global
Entrepreneurship Week (GEW)
that sees various youth
entrepreneurship
engagement activities
being organized
concurrently in more
than 60 countries around
the world from 17 -23
November 2008 (http://unleashingideas.org/theweek).
Co hosted by NUS
Entrepreneurship Centre
and Action Community for
Entrepreneurship (ACE),
NPC 2008 is the key
highlight for the launch
of GEW where this will
be held on 17 – 18
November at HDB Toa
Payoh Hub. The Guest of
Honor for this event is
President SR Nathan
where he will be giving
out prizes to the
winners of the National
Pushcart Challenge.
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SOH Students'
Involvement in Formula 1
Singapore Grand Prix
26 - 28 Septemper 2008
F1 venue
The Formula 1 Singapore
Grand Prix will be a
week filled with events
by sponsors, multi-nationals,
and companies hosting
special events for their
business partners, and
countless overseas
clients to Singapore for
this Formula 1
experience. All these
will translate into
spin-offs for the other
tourist attractions,
hospitality industries
and businesses. Our SOH
students will get to be
part of the action. 56
of our Diploma in
Customer Relationship
and Service Management (DCRSM)
students will be
involved in serving food
& beverages and
providing good customer
service from 26 to 28
Sept 08. This will be a
golden opportunity for
them to gain first hand
Formula 1 experience in
Singapore
Another batch of 10
students from the
Diploma in Integrated
Events Management (DIEM)
and Diploma in Hotel and
Hospitality Management (DHHM)
will be acting as F1
service ambassadors.
Their role will be to
provide key F1 and
tourist product
information for visitors
during the F1 period.
They will be stationed
at key tourist touch
points such as Orchard/
Marina belt, Clark Quay
and Boat Quay, etc.
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CE Talk on Dining Etiquette
5 September 2008
Republic Polytechnic
Table manners play an important part in making a favourable
impression. They are
visible signs of the
state or our manners and
are therefore essential
to professional
services. Conducted by
our very own DHHM
Academic staff, Nicholas
Lee, this talk aims to
allow him to share his
expertise and knowledge
with RP staff and
students on the basics
of proper dining
etiquette.
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DHHM Industry Speaker Series: F&B Managers’ Association & The
Little Red Dot Academy
26-28 September 2008
Republic Polytechnic
To end the calendar year with a bang, DHHM will be organizing two
talks for the Industry
Speaker Series which
will be of interest not
only to our School of
Hospitality students,
but also students from
the other schools.
Student keen on a career
in the Food & Beverage
and the Airline
industries surely look
forward to these two
talks.
In October, we will be having a speaker from the Youth Wing of the
F&B Managers. It is
hoped that this talk
will enlighten our
students and cultivating
interest in the F&B
profession. On the other
hand, in November, we
will be having with us
The Little Red Dot
Academy Pte Ltd (LRDA),
a globally recognized
hospitality and
consultancy company
headquartered in
Singapore. Its Aviation
Hospitality course
provides greater
opportunities for
graduates to pursue an
exciting and rewarding
career in the friendly
skies. The LRDA trainers
each have more than 10
years of experience in
Singapore Airlines and
other international
carriers, as well as
ample experience working
in other sectors of the
service industry.
Definitely a talk not to
be missed!
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Hotel FUZE IG Retreat
Oct-Nov 2008
Republic Poly
During the upcoming Oct-Nov break, Hotel FUZE Exco members will be
conducting yet another
fun-filled activity
specially created for
Hotel FUZE members.
Fuzers will be
encouraged to
participate in a 1/2
day-retreat within RP,
where they will get to
take part in various
teambuilding activities
and get the chance to
mingle with the DHHM
Academic staff who will
be sharing their
experiences in the hotel
industry. This will be a
golden opportunity for
them to get to know each
other better and build
closer bonds within the
cohort. |
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Centre for
Innovation & Enterprise
School
of Hospitality (in collaboration with Raffles
Hotels & Resorts) |
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Editor:
Jaime Loong
Sub-Editors:
Joyce Loh, Clara Tong
Web Design:
Jasmine Ang.
I&E Extras Section:
Susan
Sek.
Staff Contributors:
Nancy Chan, Ivy Chen, Elena Chan, Chew Chai
Luan, Chionh Chye Chin, Rebecca Chin, Gilbert
Wong, Ng Sua Keong, Leslie Sim, Lim Weng Yew,
Stephanie Tan, Maimunah Ithnin
Student
Contributors:
Allynn Teo, Ang Kun Rong, Bambang
Suryadi, Low Yi Yin
Information is accurate and updated as of 15
October 2008.
Previous Issues Archived
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