Dear Members and Friends

In this issue we feature our member-exclusive Education Services Interest Group.

Our Chamber has always supported education in the broadest sense of the word because it enables individual and corporate progress as well as social mobility. From the earliest years of our existence, the Chamber and its members have donated funds to help people benefit from education. Today, our gifts in perpetuity, generously matched by our government, provide overseas exchange programmes for students at SMU and SUTD. We are the international Chamber, after all. We want to encourage more students to experience the world beyond Singapore because this is as important for their careers as it is for Singapore’s future.

Allied to our support of education is our support of educators. We have a tremendously diverse group of members, mostly in the private sector, which provide primary, secondary and tertiary education services. They come together in the Education Services Interest Group to share best practices, learn from one another and collaborate to increase the visibility of the private education sector and promote its value to our economy. Chaired by Professor Linley Lord, Pro Vice-Chancellor and President, Curtin Singapore, the interest group is inclusive, purposeful and useful to its members.

The increasing focus on sustainability and the government’s recently released paper Skills Demand for the Future Economy will feature prominently as the members of the Interest Group lay out their plans for enabling the key skills we will all need for the future.

For more information about this and all Interest Groups, please contact my colleague Michael Chang at [email protected].

Have a productive week ahead.

Yours faithfully
Victor Mills
Chief Executive