{"id":15519,"date":"2021-06-14T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/14\/kaplan-in-singapore-and-singapore-repertory-theatre-raises-the-curtain-on-enhancing-creativity-and-soft-skills-in-students-through-the-arts\/"},"modified":"2021-06-14T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T07:20:00","slug":"kaplan-in-singapore-and-singapore-repertory-theatre-raises-the-curtain-on-enhancing-creativity-and-soft-skills-in-students-through-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/14\/kaplan-in-singapore-and-singapore-repertory-theatre-raises-the-curtain-on-enhancing-creativity-and-soft-skills-in-students-through-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaplan in Singapore and Singapore Repertory Theatre Raises the Curtain on Enhancing Creativity and Soft Skills in Students through the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               As the Singapore Repertory Theatre&#8217;s Official Learning Partner, the partnership aims to strengthen the personal development and employability of students through the arts                            <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">SINGAPORE &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Media OutReach<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> &#8211; 14 June 2021 &#8211; Through a Memorandum of&#13;<br \/>\nUnderstanding (MOU) between <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaplan.com.sg\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Kaplan<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, one of the world&#8217;s largest and most diverse&#13;<br \/>\neducation providers and Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT), one of the region&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nleading theatre producers, this one-year partnership benefits students at&#13;<br \/>\nKaplan in Singapore through activities that can enhance their learning&#13;<br \/>\nexperience and prepare them for employability, interacting with SRT&#8217;s theatre&#13;<br \/>\nveterans who provide real-world learning opportunities. Kaplan is also the&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore Repertory Theatre&#8217;s Official Learning Partner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Integrating the arts in education allows&#13;<br \/>\nstudents to gain a range of proficiencies and sharpen their ability to engage&#13;<br \/>\nin the creative process, such as using imagination, critical thinking, and&#13;<br \/>\nphysical and mental skills to generate unique creations. With this partnership,&#13;<br \/>\nboth parties provide opportunities to learn and develop soft skills essential&#13;<br \/>\nto creativity and innovation, which enhance personal development and&#13;<br \/>\nemployability for potential and current students. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Mr Joe Keen Poon, President for Kaplan in&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore, said: &#8220;As our world faces an unprecedented pace of change, our&#13;<br \/>\neconomies are becoming increasingly knowledge-based and reliant on innovation.&#13;<br \/>\nTo stay ahead, the workforce of the future needs to be creative, innovative,&#13;<br \/>\nadaptable and have advanced communication and social skills. These are just&#13;<br \/>\nwhat the arts industry thrives on. Both SRT and Kaplan share the same vision on&#13;<br \/>\nthe importance of lifelong learning and professional development, so we are&#13;<br \/>\npleased to work with them to hone these soft skills and offer industry-relevant&#13;<br \/>\nlearning opportunities to our students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Nors, Managing&#13;<br \/>\nDirector for SRT, said: &#8220;We are thrilled to be partnering with Kaplan. The&#13;<br \/>\npossibilities of the arts and the educational sector working together to foster&#13;<br \/>\na more holistic and creative approach to lifelong learning are endless. If&#13;<br \/>\nanything, the past year has shown us that creativity in how business is&#13;<br \/>\napproached is vital, and the arts can and must play a bigger role in those&#13;<br \/>\nlearning journeys for students and post-graduates.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Leveraging on SRT&#8217;s leadership and expertise in&#13;<br \/>\nthe performing arts industry, directors, actors and visiting artists share&#13;<br \/>\ntheir experiences and insights over customised workshops and masterclasses,&#13;<br \/>\nwith topics ranging from public speaking to the job functions available in the&#13;<br \/>\ntheatre-making process and event management.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The&#13;<br \/>\nfirst MasterClass series held in March 2021 allowed students to meet and learn&#13;<br \/>\ndirectly from subject experts on the &#8220;behind the business&#8221; of theatre-making.&#13;<br \/>\nThe bespoke learning experience included talks by key SRT management, as well&#13;<br \/>\nas a backstage tour. Students from Kaplan learned about the skill sets required&#13;<br \/>\non and off stage, from marketing to finance and production design. The session concluded&#13;<br \/>\nwith a live theatre performance, <i>The Sound Inside<\/i>, a gripping drama where two lonely people find each other to discover&#13;<br \/>\nmore meaning in life \u2013 except things do not appear as they seem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>On the Kaplan&#13;<br \/>\nIndustry Project (KIP) partnering with SRT, students were exposed&#13;<br \/>\nto experiential learning with SRT&#8217;s subject expert through &#8220;Events Management&#13;<br \/>\nand Audience Development&#8221;, which challenged them to develop and execute an&#13;<br \/>\nonline event on &#8220;Loneliness&#8221;, a key theme of <i>The Sound Inside<\/i>. The KIP&#13;<br \/>\nwas conducted at SRT&#8217;s theatre, where students interacted and collaborated with&#13;<br \/>\none another to formalise their event proposals that culminated into a&#13;<br \/>\ndiscussion panel on &#8220;Loneliness&#8221;. Through this real-world and hands-on learning&#13;<br \/>\nopportunity, students not only enhanced their interpersonal and creative&#13;<br \/>\nskills, they also learnt the importance of tact and empathy while working on a delicate&#13;<br \/>\ntheme. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Students can look forward to more upcoming&#13;<br \/>\nworkshops and projects with SRT, and gain insights to opportunities in the arts&#13;<br \/>\namidst the COVID-19 situation and the post-pandemic world. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/A0aZbZ1HLzg\">Click here to watch Charlotte&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;In Conversation: Embracing Challenges in the New World of Arts.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-06-14\/81851\/kaplan-in-singapore-and-singapore-repertory-theatre-raises-the-curtain-on-enhancing-creativity-and-soft-skills-in-students-through-the-arts\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Singapore Repertory Theatre&#8217;s Official Learning Partner, the partnership aims to strengthen the personal development and employability of students through the arts SINGAPORE &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 14 June 2021 &#8211; Through a Memorandum of&#13; Understanding (MOU) between Kaplan, one of the world&#8217;s largest and most diverse&#13; education providers and Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT), &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}