TM TEC Academy seeks to diversify its training programs to also cover the shipbuilding, oil & gas and services industry.

The need for privately funded institution (PFI) to cater for basic skills and apprenticeship training required and jointly developed with industry is deep-rooted in the lack of such apprenticeship and skills training facilities in the State. This was aggravated by the demand for high academic achievements to enter existing public vocational colleges. Many rural students and drop-outs were disqualified – thus keeping them on the street as untrained, hence unproductive human capital.

The current structure of our educational system does not offer easy access to further education or training for school dropouts who have not reached, finished, or have not finished their secondary education.

Conscious of this, TM TEC Academy, offers these young souls an alternative route to receive apprentice/artisan training via a predominantly skills-based development program to enable them to re-enter the education stream, receive skills training and gain employment in their preferred vocations. More importantly, they provide the much needed human capital demands that the State’s economic growth needs, especially when SCORE projects are fully on stream from 2015.

We also train those already working in specific fields to formally certify them. For the more talented ones, we can further develop them to become technopreneurs to turn their vocation into businesses that they manage themselves and be successful.