This article by Shirley Williams and Tay Mui Hua presents a model of competency-based Polytechnic education. It was developed by working backwards starting with the highest outcome desired - the desire for competence in the workforce of the future - and backtracking to the development of discipline-specific competencies which themselves are treated as a function of attitudes, skills, and knowledge.

This article outlines the use of SMS to enhance learning in a business course. The experience of using SMS in tutorials and lectures was a positive experience for those involved.

“The aim is no longer to make students jump through the same hoops but to make the learner the center of our education process”. Professor Chen Swee Eng, an expert in Problem-based Learning, shares his views on content in formal education.