ITE College Central (ITECC) is one of the Institute of Technical Education‘s three colleges under the “One ITE System, Three Colleges” Governance and Education Model. The college also houses the headquarter of the Institute of Technical Education.
Campus
This third comprehensive college covers a land area of 10.61 hectares with a total gross floor area of 192,820m2. It opened to its first cohort of students in January 2013. The campus was officially opened on 8 November that year by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
History
Originally the ITE College Central schools are located in 5 locations at Bedok, Bishan, MacPherson, Tampines and Yishun until ITE came out with a model called One ITE System, Three Colleges. The 5 location in Bedok, Bishan, MacPherson, Tampines and Yishun ceased operations in December 2012.
The new campus replaced the original decentralised campuses, and has moved into its current premises at Ang Mo Kio in December 2012 together with ITE Headquarters.
ITE College Central has been used as the venue for Singapore National Day speech, recent years are in 2019 and 2021.
Academic Schools and Courses
ITE College Central has four schools; School of Business & Services, School of Design & Media, School of Electronics & Info-Communications Technology and School of Engineering, running a total of 51 courses.
Traineeship
ITE College Central has traineeship course. Traineeship course consist of experience trainer, ITE and the person who sign up for traineeship. It helps to gain a head start in career, will receive a certificate as a full-time student but will receive an additional certificate. Once the person who sign up for traineeship gets accepted, training will start immediately. Traineeship has different of varieties of different courses and different course needs different criteria to enter.
Facilities
In Zentrum, the commercial belt, there are shops and restaurants open to ITE students, staff and the general public, such as Popular Bookstore, First Culinary Restaurant, POSB Bank, Sheng Siong Supermarket and Koufu Foodcourt. Also located in ITE College Central is ITEepitome, an authentic training facility for students to work and interact with customers in a genuine commercial setting.