Introduction to NICE
The Node for Impactful Continuing Education (NICE) was established in 2024 to promote research partnerships and efforts with a focus on identifying and studying outcomes and the determinants of such outcomes from CET for members of the labour force. Some areas of priority include the employability and career health of workers who are enrolled in adult learning degree programmes, such as those that SUSS offers.
Research Priorities
The following are areas of work which NICE has identified:
Act as a platform for the development of proof-of-concept ideas. It will bring together experts to develop robust evaluation tools and metrics to accommodate participant variability and link training outcomes to performance indicators such as employability, sustainability and productivity.
Serve as a centralised platform for collecting, curating, and researching CET-related data across cohorts and time periods, implementing comprehensive strategies to gather both quantitative and qualitative data for a holistic view of CET effectiveness. This approach will facilitate the building of a data warehouse, thereby enhancing data management, analysis and sharing which will allow NICE to leverage data for long-term insights and competitive advantage.
Conduct longitudinal studies and regular follow-up surveys to track participants over time. This will allow for measuring the long-term impact of training and attributing outcomes directly to the training.
Aim to foster a deeper understanding of CET outcomes and establish an index for measuring them. Additionally, NICE aspires to influence and inform CET policies by collaborating with stakeholders and policymakers, contributing to the development of policies that enhance the quality and relevance of CET initiatives at both organisational and national levels.
Project Spotlight
Featured research projects that are related to NICE's ambit. These include:
Slowing workforce growth: Predicting labour trends and investigating perspectives of mature workers and women with caregiving responsibilities
Dr Sheryl Chua Hwee Chin
This paper explores the implication of this demographic development by utilising a multi-method approach to examine current and future trends in the labour market as well as the key factors that can influence the decisions to remain in the labour market for mature workers and women with caregiving responsibilities.
Towards Future-Ready Undergraduates in the Hybrid Workforce: Identifying Mechanisms for Collaboration Using a Social Neuroscience Approach
A/P Atiqah Azhari
This study seeks to identify the behaviours which are crucial to collaborative performance online. These competencies may be strategically incorporated into curriculum design in IHLs as Interpersonal Learning Objectives (ILOs) under an interpersonal competencies category.
Upcoming Research Projects
We conduct a range of applied research projects. These include:
NICE Research Projects
We conduct a range of applied research projects. These include:
International/ Regional Research Projects
Researchers from NICE had the privilege of working with the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) on these projects:
Contact Us
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