The School of Business & Accountancy offers a variety of workshops, talks and activity-related programmes for secondary school students and teachers. The following activities are conducted upon request by schools and subject to availability of staff and venues. A fee may be charged for some programmes.
FOR STUDENTS
Flagship Events
NEW! National Youth Business Challenge – 21 & 22 March 2009
In this inaugural competition, student teams will be exposed to practical business skills and knowledge to set up "Green" or eco-friendly businesses. Marketing, retail management, entrepreneurship, customer service, operations, finance and human resource skills will be imparted to empower student teams for the challenge. The finals will be held over a weekend in a major shopping mall. Participants will get the chance to market their businesses for real.
Finance Uncovered @ Ngee Ann (FUN) Trail – 23 May 2009
A half-day fun-filled experiential learning engages students in discovering nuggets of information in a "financial" trail around Singapore’s famous Central Business District.
National Accounting Quiz – May 2009 (Tentative)
This popular annual competition has students strategising and pitting their accounting acumen against each other to win. Supporters, too, will get to test their accounting knowledge in a fun and lively atmosphere.
Discover Business Tourism @ Ngee Ann - July 2009 (Tentative)
The event is envisaged to be a discovery and collaborative learning journey for upper secondary students and students in our Tourism & Resort Management (TRM) Diploma programme to explore the latest developments in business travel.
Enrichment Programmes
Law & Order – The Cyberway
A fun 2-hour program involving a visit to an interactive multimedia thematic display put up by final year Diploma in Business Information Technology students on the ethical and legal issues on the use of IT, especially issues thrown up by emerging Web 2.0 technology like YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. The display will explore issues like music downloads, cybercrimes, online privacy and security. Participants will be engaged through quizzes, games and blogging together with student leaders, the BA Envoys.
Money $mart Teens (Mo$T)
A 1-hour talk on the importance of saving and how to avoid danger of overspending.
$mart Money Management
A half-day workshop to understand the fundamentals of money management, budgeting, spending and saving. My Tax Adventure @NP
A half-day workshop to explore Singapore’s tax system and discover basic concepts of taxation.
Introduction to M.Y.O.B.
A half-day laboratory session on using this software to record journal transactions and prepare simple financial statements.
DIAL (Discover Accounting as a Life skill)
A 1-hour laboratory session cum talk on basic budgeting concepts.
Financial Reporting Over the Web
A 1.5-hour talk on using XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) for financial reporting on the Web.
Entrepreneurship Alliances Programme
This 1-day workshop is designed to cultivate the spirit of entrepreneurship in students and provide assistance to secondary schools to set up their own entrepreneurship clubs. There is a follow-up mentorship for 2 months, each session lasting 2 hours weekly.
Spotting $$ Opportunities
Students will learn how to generate business ideas by turning opportunities into feasible businesses after attending this 1.5-hour talk cum workshop. They will learn different idea generation techniques, creativity and innovation.
Branding Yourself
Participants acquire simple branding and marketing principles and learn how to apply these concepts to more effectively market themselves. Participants will learn how to 'package' themselves to project their desired images to their friends, parents, teachers and future employers.
Finding Your Career Fit
Students attending this 1.5-hour talk cum workshop will be introduced to the concept of career planning. Good career choice outcomes should produce a series of positions which give us opportunities for good performance, make us committed to our chosen field and give us high work satisfaction. This talk cum workshop will introduce some existing instruments that can help students discover which careers provide the best match for their skills.
Do you have EQ (E-Quotient)?
Students after attending the 1.5-hour talk cum workshop will learn how to manage their emotions and the way they relate to others at home and with friends. It will help them deepen connections at three levels: with themselves (personal mastery), with another person (one-to-one), and within groups/teams.
Dealing with Strangers
This talk cum workshop gives an overview on the importance of understanding non-verbal behavior and also addresses some of the ways to develop cross-cultural literacy. Participants will learn why people often perceive and react differently to common issues. Often, the root cause of this can be traced back to cultural differences.
FOR TEACHERS
Teaching Kopitiam @ NP
A 3-hour workshop on applying diverse IT teaching methods with focus on E-learning, Problem-Based Learning and Service Learning.
Anthropology in Education
A 2-hour workshop for teachers conducted by lecturers from the Tourism & Resort Management course on a pedagogical approach that enhances students' learning through the art of observation.
For enquiries, please contact:
Ms Jacqueline Fong
Email: fjy2@np.edu.sg