<![CDATA[ITE - Any parents from ITE ?]]>Hi there,


Not sure if i should post this here as there arent any thread on ITE.
Any of you guys went to ITE after your O’s ?

I was from ITE Macpherson from 1993-1995 in mechanical enggrg.

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fluffie:
Hi for those parents who went through ITE. Need yr adv pls. My son will be going to ITE next year but he's still not sure what course he's going to take. He's currently in the NT. just like to confirm if he's from NT means he will have to go to NITEC then Higher NITEC is it ? how many years will this take pls? can anyone adv pls ? tks

Hi fluffie,

Students from NT usually go through NITEC first, then if their overall grades & GPA are good they may proceed with Higher NITEC.
- All Nitec courses are of two-year duration, except for Nitec in Service Skills and Nitec in Beauty Therapy which are of one-year duration.
- All Higher Nitec courses are of two-year duration, except for Higher Nitec in Paramedic & Emergency Care and Nitec in Nursing (Dual Certification Course) which is of 3-year and 3-month duration.

Perhaps you may want to go through with your son which intake he wants to start and the list of courses that may interest him, be it from the Schools of Business & Services, Engineering, Design & Media, Health, etc.

ITE in the recent years add new courses every year, and you can get more details directly from the ITE website: http://www.ite.edu.sg/ite/index_op.html

Hope that helps 🙂

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/256950https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/256950Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:52:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ITE - Any parents from ITE ? on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:14:27 GMT]]>Hi for those parents who went through ITE. Need yr adv pls. My son will be going to ITE next year but he’s still not sure what course he’s going to take. He’s currently in the NT. just like to confirm if he’s from NT means he will have to go to NITEC then Higher NITEC is it ? how many years will this take pls? can anyone adv pls ? tks

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Han Seo:
Interest and inclination is very important for a person to do well in his/her chosen field. I hope parents don't force their children to choose fields that their child is not interested in or has no inclination.


Most important, I'm very happy doing what I'm doing now. I guess I've finally found my talent and strengths and this is my contribution to society.
Thanks for sharing Han Seo :celebrate:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/166438https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/166438Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:29:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ITE - Any parents from ITE ? on Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:49:04 GMT]]>Interest and inclination is very important for a person to do well in his/her chosen field. I hope parents don’t force their children to choose fields that their child is not interested in or has no inclination.


I was in the commerce stream throughout my secondary and JC days (back then, it’s either science, arts or commerce stream). I hated every subject that I studied, especially in JC. I have no inclination for numbers, yet I was doing economics and principles of accounts! The day I finished my last paper in the A levels, I swore I’d never touch those subjects again. As expected, I did badly for my As; only managed to get partial As. All my friends went on to University. A lot of them are successful accountants and financial controllers now.

I only found my true calling after working in the field of education. Got my diploma and degree in my 30s and my masters in my 40s. All were related to education. I topped my cohort for both my degree and masters course. For the first time in my life, studying was a breeze! I read beyond what were required of our assignments because of the interest I had.

I may not be earning big bucks now, compared to my friends in the accounting field, but all the employers I’ve worked for hold me in high regard. I have the flexibility to do part-time work for all my current and ex-employers if I want to. And they were also willing to accede to my terms. Most important, I’m very happy doing what I’m doing now. I guess I’ve finally found my talent and strengths and this is my contribution to society.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/165707https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/165707Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:49:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ITE - Any parents from ITE ? on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:23:46 GMT]]>Hi!


One of my subordinates studied in ITE previously, and after graduating, he went on to study diploma in Ngee Ann. He is a keen and fast learner. In fact, the fact that he went on to Ngee Ann after graduating from ITE was one of the reasons why I employed him, because I have high respect for people who constantly strive to improve themselves.

He is strong with numbers, and I am trying to develop him further in this area.

So, don’t lose heart. Every path leads to something bright. It’s how you seize the opportunity.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/52540https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/52540Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:23:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ITE - Any parents from ITE ? on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:07:36 GMT]]>Kudos to kelamel & mom2boys for sharing the experiences of walking the untrodden path to Life Education.


I missed registering for ITE due to family problems, went to pte instituition & self-sponsered for SHATEC course.

Spend 5yrs in hospitality industries & got a wake-up call when I lost my mother & maternal grandfather within 1 week. Switched back to regular hours. Got a full time job & did part-time studies. I must admit I have not found my calling YET after having worked in a variety of industries.

My latest job now is a SAHM after failing to get a job but my goal is to be a source of inspiration to my kids especially my DS who is not academically but artistically inclined. I intend to motivate & inspire him by completing my professional diploma. I want to show him that if Mummy can do it, so can You.

No one is a Born Loser only a Strong or Weak Trekker.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/52533https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/52533Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:07:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ITE - Any parents from ITE ? on Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:05:55 GMT]]>

insider:

It's good that your academic journey is 'bumpy' as if one day your child's journey is also as 'bumpy', usually you will be able to empathise and give her a pat on her shoulder to move on coz the road ahead is just full of all kinds of possibilities!

Hi! Actually, whenever I look back, I think I have a pretty smooth academic journey, don't find it \"bumpy\" at all as I was fortunate to make it to Uni without much obstacles. So my academic story is a pretty boring one compared to those news reported about students who show perserverance and determination though encounter obstacles and difficulties.

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insider:

PS: usually for ITE kids who can make their way to Poly and then to higher levels, this breed of kids is with better life surviving skills / resilience as compared to those through train ones, meaning may excel much better than the latter and the sky is the limit...
I know of someone who never did well enough to qualify for any poly courses (save for nautical option) and chose private route over ITE. After getting his cert, he has been between a few jobs, trying out new things and not earning a high pay. Despite that, he still manage to give the parents a decent allowance and is pretty filial. He is now in another job switch (one that offers sponsored training) and preparing to get married. When i joked with him on why he thinks his girlfriend will marry a poor guy, his reply is,
\"Because I'm a cockroach. Buey Si (ie not easy to die)\". 😉

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hockey_blue:
I have friends who also went to ITE and they really excelled in it. Right now, they have completed their university education and have a Master's degree.


Hence, I believe that no matter where our kids goes to, they may also excel. It depends on how strong are their will power.
Hi! Maybe also to share my experience.

I did not go to ITE, went JC instead. Not because I did so well for \"O\", rather I did not qualify for Poly Biz Courses, and did not want to do Engin courses, so just went to a neighbourhood JC (by the way I came from a humble family background, Pri & Sec school were neighbourhood school who never produce scholars, and they are still neighbourhood schools now) who gave me a chance to work hard, finally I made it to NUS, but sad to say, Biz courses were out for me, got into my 3rd choice which was Arts & Social Sciences. Didn't get honours (At least you guys got it), got a govt job and now doing my master course.

Though I am not earning mega bucks, I think I am doing pretty fine with my current salary. Got a 5-rooms HDB flat, 2 beautiful kids and a cheap korean car.

I will not send my gal to a more well-known pri school (Unless it is my near my place. I am within 1 km from Nan Chiau Pri but may not want to send her there cos' no Students Care Centre in that school). I just want her to be happy, as what she is doing now, spending her time, happy learning and playing with her friends in this not-well-known childcare centre.

😄

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/43080https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/43080Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:34:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ITE - Any parents from ITE ? on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:12:37 GMT]]>I have friends who also went to ITE and they really excelled in it. Right now, they have completed their university education and have a Master’s degree.


Hence, I believe that no matter where our kids goes to, they may also excel. It depends on how strong are their will power.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/35216https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/35216Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:12:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ITE - Any parents from ITE ? on Wed, 20 May 2009 04:10:24 GMT]]>Just to share, I have a nephew who didn’t take to classroom learning and was always down – unsmiling, miserable, sloppy. All that changed when he went to ITE after his O levels and did aerospace, which he has been interested in since he was younger. The hand-on learning style brightened him up and he was full of enthusiasm. Was one of several picked to go to Canada on a 2- or 3-week attachment and got glowing testimonials from that aircraft manufacturer and the one he did a six-month local stint with just before graduating – as top student. Just started his aeronautics course at Singapore Poly.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/29532https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/29532Wed, 20 May 2009 04:10:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ITE - Any parents from ITE ? on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:03:10 GMT]]>It’s certainly not doomed to go ITE. During one of our gatherings some years back, one of my university course mate, a scholar, mentioned that his brother, who went to ITE, eventually went on to set up his own interior design company and made big bucks, much much more than what my course mate was earning.

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mom2boys:
Hi kelamel,


u hv found a parnter!! :lol:

I'm one of those that went to ITE (last time is still call CIC) which later changed to ITE clementi after my first yr there. Was doing accouting. GCE 'o' level got 7 credits..sounds good hor 😛 but the points wasn't good enough to go poly business cos business faculty that time requires a mad 13points (for 5subjects) as an entry point.

I dun want to ended up in a enginerring course which i'm totally not interested in for 3yrs. So decided, to stick on business, I went in to CIC for 2yrs, obtain a cert in accouting, went into working line at the age of 19ys...went back to full time study 2yrs later at SIM with UOL programme..took 3yrs to get a honors degree with economics 🙏

I guess eventhough I'm lagging a few yrs behind, ultimately, i still obtain my degree at last 😉

I'm in the insurance line too 😉 but as an underwriter instead
WAH STEADY! :celebrate: i had 6 credits but my points too many and worst my subject combo (chem/bio) can only go to Biz/ac course in poly (enggrg all can't cos science combo was wrong to begin with) but those are too tough to enter, instead ITE was able to offer enggrg course for me, so took it up.

Oh ours were known as STI than renamed to ITE Macpherson.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/24919https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/24919Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:28:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ITE - Any parents from ITE ? on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:31:25 GMT]]>Hi kelamel,


u hv found a parnter!! :lol:

I'm one of those that went to ITE (last time is still call CIC) which later changed to ITE clementi after my first yr there. Was doing accouting. GCE 'o' level got 7 credits..sounds good hor 😛 but the points wasn't good enough to go poly business cos business faculty that time requires a mad 13points (for 5subjects) as an entry point.

I dun want to ended up in a enginerring course which i'm totally not interested in for 3yrs. So decided, to stick on business, I went in to CIC for 2yrs, obtain a cert in accouting, went into working line at the age of 19ys...went back to full time study 2yrs later at SIM with UOL programme..took 3yrs to get a honors degree with economics 🙏

I guess eventhough I'm lagging a few yrs behind, ultimately, i still obtain my degree at last 😉

I'm in the insurance line too 😉 but as an underwriter instead

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/24899https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/24899Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:31:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ITE - Any parents from ITE ? on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:06:27 GMT]]>ITE is definately not the end. It is the learning attitute that leads him to success, not the path he takes.


kelamel, congrat ! become a daddy soon ..... 😄

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/24891https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/24891Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:06:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ITE - Any parents from ITE ? on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:29:00 GMT]]>

kelamel:
Hi there,


Not sure if i should post this here as there arent any thread on ITE.
Any of you guys went to ITE after your O's ?

I was from ITE Macpherson from 1993-1995 in mechanical enggrg.
I guess no one here talk about ITE is bcos those who have taken this route no need to be kiasu anymore. Hence may not be interested in this website.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/24885https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/24885Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:29:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ITE - Any parents from ITE ? on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:34:28 GMT]]>

ChiefKiasu:
kelamel:

...Hi thanks.....wife is currently 2.5mths preggy....im a real kiasu parent...


So I assume the pre-natal kit you got from E-bay is operating at full capacity every night now?

Not every night but once a week or so however i still find it hard to hear the heartbeat lei....next visit to the gynae im gg to bring it along.

I can hear my own heart beat though hahaha

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kelamel:
...Hi thanks.....wife is currently 2.5mths preggy....im a real kiasu parent...

So I assume the pre-natal kit you got from E-bay is operating at full capacity every night now?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/24817https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/24817Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:49:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ITE - Any parents from ITE ? on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:17:02 GMT]]>

insider:
kelamel.


you got kids? usually people like you make better parents than others (more understanding = more nurturing)...

I applaud people like you... sincerely...
Hi thanks.....wife is currently 2.5mths preggy....im a real kiasu parent...

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/24799https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/24799Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:17:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ITE - Any parents from ITE ? on Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:38:40 GMT]]>

insider:
kelamel:


As we were feeling a bit demoralised when our old sec school frens were all going to poly, we made friends and found a way to motivate ourselves.
We gambled with our grades for each final exams!
Every grade diffrential is $100 bucks per subject

Very heartwarming to read about your experience.

Some kids, esp boys, just take longer time to mature. And ITE is definitely not \"Its The End\".

If society can just in general take off their coloured-lenses to look at this group of kids...

PS: usually for ITE kids who can make their way to Poly and then to higher levels, this breed of kids is with better life surviving skills / resilience as compared to those through train ones, meaning may excel much better than the latter and the sky is the limit...

If u watch the movie i not stupid, we were like those kids in sec school, haha.Yeah kinda agree with u, i took a while to actually understand what was going on!

But another heartbreak came when i applied for nus/ntu to do my 4year degree part time, they mentioned i didnt make the cut as my O's werent good and dont have much work experience ...sigh...
i was totally :stupid: .....isnt that why i went to ite in the first place?
I got the news when i was in switzerland on job training with my new co...i felt sad yet again.....

Than saw an advert in the papers showing PSB (Uni of newcastle australia) offering a direct hons degree for enggrg, part time for 2 years!(But now its 3 years i heard, 2 years is ridiculous as classes were from mon to sunday!!) Anyway i signed up for it and was offered a place....Got a 2nd class Upper Hons in it after lots of effort and got a job in a U.S MNC firm that doubled my salary immediately....

mom n pops couldnt believe it!, than 2 years into the job, i had to leave cos i had some stomach illness which requires me to go to the toilet at least 7-8times a day.Co allowed me to go for no pay leave but its unfair to them cos they will not be able to hire anyone, so i resigned...i went to insurance, again mom n pops were :?

Er ur pay so good why leave..i said give me 2 years (I saved enough $$ to have 0 income for 1.5 years at tt point of time) in this new line...this year is the 4th year :celebrate:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/24762https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/24762Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:38:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to ITE - Any parents from ITE ? on Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:11:08 GMT]]>Wow i guess none here went to ITE.... :? Share with you guys some experience that i went thru.


Parents i met over time do ask me eh my kid go to ITE how ah ? or repeat O's better to go poly.....

For those that arent sure of this you can make it thru this system too.

After my O's, went to ITE and than to 2nd year Poly than to work and studied part time in PSB to get an enggrg degree.

So parents of kids that is going ITE dont lose heart, most important is to do well in ITE make it to poly 2nd year direct entry or 1st year for normal grades (im not too sure if this has changed over the years,anyone can verify?). Since we are already down, cant go down any further except up.

As we were feeling a bit demoralised when our old sec school frens were all going to poly, we made friends and found a way to motivate ourselves.
We gambled with our grades for each final exams!
Every grade diffrential is $100 bucks per subject

Example 3 of us. IF one of us scores and A and the other 2 a B...the A Grade guy would get $200.Imagine if one gets a D for a subject. :?:

If no $$ to got to work liao part time and raise the $$ or ask parents and they quite surprised that we studying like siao.Although we compete with each other but we help each other as much as possible.

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