2020 Skills-Based Modular Courses

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2020SkillsBasedModularCourses.csv (206 rows, 66.3 KB)

Year Datetime (Year) "YYYY"	Course name Text (General)	Course description Text (General)	Reference Text (Url)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2020	Communicative Competence for Success in the Future Workplace	Be future-ready for business transformation with our NEW part-time diploma. Designed for would-be managers like you who have the experience and the desire to take your career to the next level.	https://www.np.edu.sg/lifelonglearning/Pages/Applied_Management_Future_Workplace.aspx
2020	Sense making in a Data-driven Era	Be future-ready for business transformation with our NEW part-time diploma. Designed for would-be managers like you who have the experience and the desire to take your career to the next level.	https://www.np.edu.sg/lifelonglearning/Pages/Applied_Management_Future_Workplace.aspx
2020	Design Thinking? Transforming Corporate Problem Solving	Be future-ready for business transformation with our NEW part-time diploma. Designed for would-be managers like you who have the experience and the desire to take your career to the next level.	https://www.np.edu.sg/lifelonglearning/Pages/Applied_Management_Future_Workplace.aspx
2020	Accounting & Finance	This module provides students with basic accounting and finance knowledge. Students will be taught how to interpret and use financial accounting information for decision-making. This module will also cover budgeting, financing strategies, working capital management as well as capital investment analysis.	https://www.np.edu.sg/lifelonglearning/CET%20Portal/Common/PTD%20Course%20Synopsis.pdf#page=20
2020	Business Analytics	The module aims to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of business analytics to develop efficient analysis and reporting solutions. It explores the use of both business and technical topics that support the manager in the analysis of data for business decision and strategy making. Students will learn the analysis tools to make better use of data to set goals, measure progress, effectively communicate ideas, and make fast and correct decisions.	https://www.np.edu.sg/lifelonglearning/CET%20Portal/Common/PTD%20Course%20Synopsis.pdf#page=20
2020	Business Communications	Introduces the fundamentals of both written and oral business communication skills. Consists of ample opportunities to practise presentation skills through role-plays.	https://www.np.edu.sg/lifelonglearning/CET%20Portal/Common/PTD%20Course%20Synopsis.pdf#page=18
2020	Business Innovation & Strategy	Provides an overview of various aspects, business issues and success factors inherent in organisations and organizational competitiveness. Introduces how technology, innovation, operations, marketing and human resource are used together to create a synergized service management system.	https://www.np.edu.sg/lifelonglearning/CET%20Portal/Common/PTD%20Course%20Synopsis.pdf#page=20
2020	Business Management	Provides an understanding of the basic management principles and practices to enable them to function effectively in an organization. Introduces roles and functions of managers, with particular emphasis on the management functions.	https://www.np.edu.sg/lifelonglearning/CET%20Portal/Common/PTD%20Course%20Synopsis.pdf#page=20
2020	Business Planning & Administration	Equips participants with application skills through research based projects relevant to the industry of interest to them and present their findings to integrate or improve the different functional areas of the organisation.	https://www.np.edu.sg/lifelonglearning/CET%20Portal/Common/PTD%20Course%20Synopsis.pdf#page=20
2020	Business Statistics	Introduces basic concepts of statistics and will focus on basic statistical tools and models. Imparts skills to organize, analyse, interpret and present data results with MS EXCEL.	https://www.np.edu.sg/lifelonglearning/CET%20Portal/Common/PTD%20Course%20Synopsis.pdf#page=20

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Datetime (Year) "YYYY"	-	-
Course name	course_name	Text (General)	-	-
Course description	course_description	Text (General)	-	-
Reference	reference	Text (Url)	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_bdcac967ad4a603b182fae6505cfc06b"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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[This is a staging site, please do not use this data for anything except testing] Ngee Ann Polytechnic. (2020). 2020 Skills-Based Modular Courses (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 1, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bdcac967ad4a603b182fae6505cfc06b/view

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