Wednesday, July 1, 2009

The featured diplomas today are… *drumroll* Chemical Engineering and Singapore’s one and only, Veterinary Technology. These two fabulous courses will enrich your learning experience with their exciting curricula and modules.

Chemical Engineering

If Chemistry is your thing, you’ll love Chemical Engineering! With this course, you’ll get to see the products being developed in the laboratories right down to its delivery to the masses. Students in the course will get to manufacture fuel, cosmetics, plastics, processed food and medicine. So now we know who’s responsible for some of our daily necessities!

Graduates have a range of career choices, be it careers in the chemical industry, laboratory research work or the pharmaceutical manufacturing line.

Veterinary Technology

If you’ve always wanted to work with animals, this course is for you! With hands-on training in animal biology, wound management, surgical procedures, care of animals and biotechnology, you’ll get up close and personal with furry friends. Best of all, there is a five-month student internship programme either locally or overseas in the veterinary industry, research institutions or animal parks.

Veterinary Technology graduates can work as veterinary technologists, animal education officers/assistants or animal health inspection assistant in animal welfare organisations. These are just a few out of the plethora of options available. Psst, the Diploma in Veterinary Technology is ONLY offered at TP!

I have to say, while these two diplomas are Awesomely interesting, I’m still WAY ahead in that department… but I digress. If you have a burning passion and your heart is set on a course, the Direct Polytechnic Admission (DPA) will give you an edge when seeking entry into a polytechnic. Best of all, you’ll join a superbly fun group of DPA students. These folks were screaming and jostling with each other to get a piece of me when I made a rare appearance at the campus plaza yesterday. Here are their thoughts on DPA:

“TP was my first choice because it’s the only poly to offer the course that I’ve always wanted, Diploma in Applied Food Science & Nutrition. The school campus is so appealing with great facilities! DPA allowed me to get to know the poly better and I’ve already made many new and wonderful friends during the Poly Preparatory Programme.”

– Carol Kong, Diploma in Applied Food Science & Nutrition, Year 1

“I joined TP because I love the culture here; it was the poly that left the biggest impression on me in every aspect. I’ve also joined the DPAIG (DPA interest group), which gives me many opportunities to give talks and plan events for all TP DPA students.”

– Fan Wei Shan, Diploma in Veterinary Technology, Year 1

“My friends told me how much fun TP’s DPA was and that really appealed to me. DPA allowed me to go on an ASc School discovery programme where I learnt about Problem-Based Learning, a subject offered in Year 3. I was able to experience campus life in TP and study new subjects before my friends joined the poly.”

- Lim Jia Jie, Diploma in Biotechnology, Year 1

If you want to experience the Awesome benefits of coming to TP via DPA, be sure to apply when 8 July comes about! Don’t forget – this is a great chance for you to join ME at TP!

Be sure to hit our DPA Facebook page to interact or pose your questions to our DPA students, or you can chat with us right here on our tagboard!

Watch out for the upcoming Episode 3 of Advance to GO – DPA Feature Show… it’s a good one, trust me (hint: VERY popular school). Then again, all our TP academic schools ROCK (although not as much as me, ahem).