ICDL Asia recently collaborated with APSN Delta Senior School (DSS) to implement an Office Skills Programme designed to equip students with essential administrative and digital competencies for today’s workplace. As workplaces continue to digitalise, the programme focuses on strengthening students’ office productivity and ICT skills to enhance employment readiness and workplace confidence.
The Office Skills Programme comprises three modules delivered over 72 training hours: Office Productivity Skills, Computer and Online Essentials and Application Essentials. The curriculum integrates internationally recognised ICDL digital competencies with structured training practices to ensure students develop both technical proficiency and practical workplace skills. Upon successful completion, students receive a joint certificate issued by ICDL Asia and DSS
The first cohort of students from the Retail and Warehousing Services track has successfully completed all three modules. Feedback from the cohort has been positive, reflecting increased digital confidence and readiness to apply administrative and ICT skills in workplace settings. ICDL Asia and DSS will continue to build on this programme, supporting future cohorts in developing recognised digital competencies for employment.
About APSN Delta Senior School
DSS was conceived as a post-secondary school within APSN in 1997, with the main objective of providing transition programme. DSS students are at their final phase of schooling before they transit and integrate into the community. Located in Choa Chu Kang, Singapore, the school serves young adults aged approximately 17 to 21 with mild intellectual disabilities. As an Approved Training Organisation (ATO) with SkillsFuture Singapore, the school provides customised vocational training leading to Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ) Statement of Attainment (SOA). DSS has a variety of accredited courses in Food & Beverage, Retail & Warehousing Services, Facilities and Laundry Operations and Horticulture. DSS has also been an ICDL Accredited Test Centre (ATC) for more than five years.
For more information about APSN, please visit https://www.apsn.org.sg/
About ICDL
ICDL is a global social enterprise dedicated to raising digital competence standards in the workforce, education, and society. Our certification programmes, delivered through an active network in over 100 countries, enable individuals and organisations to assess, build, and certify their competence in the use of computers and digital tools to the globally recognised ICDL standard.
As a not-for-profit social enterprise, ICDL Foundation benefits from the unique support of experts from national computer societies and partners worldwide to develop vendor-independent standards, defining the skills and knowledge required to use digital technology effectively. We work with education and training partners, local and regional authorities, national governments, international development organisations, as well as public and private sector employers in all sectors, in the delivery of our programmes.
The quality and reputation of ICDL are built on almost 30 years of experience in delivering certification programmes to over 17 million people in more than 40 languages worldwide, with more than 2.5 million ICDL tests taken annually. Our success is maintained by our ongoing innovation in certification programme development, our commitment to rigorous test design methodologies, and consistent adherence to our quality assurance standards.
For more information about ICDL, please visit https://icdlasia.org/about-us/