What makes NYP's business courses so special from the other polytechnics??
It is out Teaching Enterprise Program (TEP). It is a very unique and innovative concept of training where students undergo practice-based learning through attachments with real business centres within the campus.
The period of TEP lasts one whole semester and it is divided into three parts, Full Shift (9am -5.30pm), Half Shift (9am - 12.30pm, 1pm - 5.30pm, etc) and Classical (Where students have to attend classes according to the timetable provided). For the Marketing students, these business centres listed below provide a platform for actual hands-on training for our students.
A modern ‘Teaching Enterprise’ environment is stimulated in school, which it is in tune with the development of the real business world and provides opportunities for students to work in a whole different business environment.
Our state-of-the-art call centre is run and managed by our team of experienced call centre professionals and lecturers. It provides our students with the opportunities to work in a real business environment and handle hi-technology telecommunication gadgets. Moreover, students will gain valuable customer relationship management and communication skills, which is essential when they enter the working world.
Business Service Centre (BSC) - Full Shift
Students posted to BSC are split into various teams and each team would have to carry out different tasks. Tasks would include mystery shopping, preparing the cruise packages or other holdiay packages for SBM's students, carry out surveys by companies such as the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF).
Events Managemtent and Road Shows (EMRS) - Full Shift
In this Stopover, students will learn to make cold calls, look for suppliers and and work with them. Also to meet up with the supplier and tell them about out proposal and allow them to come to NYP and carry out an event together. During this stopover, students would learn many other thing such as planning of logistics, Advertising & Promotions and many other things.
Successful events have been the annual IT Fairs, Chinese New Year Fairs and the various John Little and Cheers Fairs.
Marketing Services Centre (MSC) - Half Shift
NYP's shopping arcade is run by their very own students. Students would be posted to either Cheers, Challenger or the MSC studio, where various retail products are sold. During the attachtment period, students learn how operating a shop would be like, and they learn how to use the POS machine.
E-learning Development Center (ELDC) - Half Shift
Currently developing fully online courses for industry & public in areas such as retail management, personal financial projects for industry (e.g. Tangs). Students also develop E-games for various modules in SBM. They will learn to use programms such as Adobe Flash and Photoshop, amongst others.
I.P.P
Similar to the other polytechnics, students in NYP will go through the Industry Placement Project (IPP).
The main attachment periods are Feb-April and Aug to October, a duration of 10 weeks each.
The main objective of the Industrial Placement Programme is to help ensure students are exposed to the real working world and to prepare them for ready absorption into the workforce after graduation. This IPP exposure will also provide them the practical work exposure and enable them to acquire the required skills to contribute effectively to the business and commerce section of the economy.
Through its extensive networks with industry, our students are placed out to companies spanning the service, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, financial services and IT sectors. IPP will also enable students to put what they have learnt in the classrooms into practice.
The main attachment periods are Feb-April and Aug to October, a duration of 10 weeks each.
Companies who take part in the IPP are IBM, Changi Airport Group (CAG), SAF Yacht Club, Ministry of Manpower (MOM), Moove Media, Resorts World Sentosa, Marina Bay Sands (MBS), Cordlife, Wonderman, etc
