Kaplan Singapore hires almost all its lecturers as private contractors and not employees. This strategy enables the company to save on CPF contributions, employee benefits, bypasss employment laws on direct hires. Brilliant. Lecturers (unless also a full-time staff) will have to start a business entity and Kaplan will pay them like they are third party contractors. You work, your company/business entity and hence you get paid. It is strictly a business transaction. Students’ attitude and motivation varies greatly. Chances are, if they are mature working adults, they are much better behaved, with higher levels of motivation. Particularly even more true if they paid for their course fees out of their own pocket, If they happen to be fresh school leavers (secondary school), be prepared for a rude shock. Bad manners, no work ethic and simply poor social and academic skills will test the most seasoned of lecturers. The school is a commercial entity designed to collect money while delivering the bare minimum in academic content. It’s really up to the individual student to make the best use of their money and time spent there. Students are better off at other private commercial schools like SUSS, SIM that are roughly in the same tier. People who can get into NTU, NUS, SMU and the local polytechnics will find Kaplan to be somewhat of a joke. Even the top ITE students will need to go to a tertiary institution of better quality.
