Temasek Poly offers 12-month work-study post-diploma in Hawkerpreneurship for aspiring hopefuls
Last Updated: January 14, 2021
This piece of news follows the announcement of Singapore’s hawker culture having made its way into the Unesco Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Though integral to and deeply embedded into Singapore’s culture, the sustainability and stability of hawker culture has long stirred concerns of doubt.
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Temasek Polytechnic‘s 12-month work-study post-diploma in Hawkerpreneurship, hawker hopefuls will now get a bit of a head-start through classroom and on-the-job training which will prepare them for a career as both a hawkerpreneur, and also in the food and beverage industry at large.
The Straits Times
15 hawkers lauded for efforts in shaping Singapore s hawker culture
Ms Elayne Ang, one of the Promising New Hawker Award recipients, with her partner Samuel Tan at their Tian Kee Carrot Cake Hokkien Mee stall.ST PHOTO: JOEL CHAN
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She takes leap to be hawker after years in banking sector
Ms Elayne Ang and her partner Samuel Tan at Tian Kee Carrot Cake and Hokkien Mee in Marine Parade. Yesterday, Ms Ang received the Promising New Hawker Award at the first Singapore Hawkers Awards. TNP PHOTO: JOEL CHAN
Couple s leap of faith pays off with Promising New Hawker Award
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Ms Elayne Ang had worked for more than 15 years in the banking industry when she decided to take a leap to become a hawker.
The big switch in 2019 saw her opening a stall to sell carrot cake and Hokkien mee, and fielding questions from well-meaning friends about forgoing a stable, successful job with a steady income for the uncertainties of the hawker trade.
THE Penang government is working on having its hawker culture recognised on Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
Penang tourism and creative economy committee chairman Yeoh Soon Hin said it would take about five years to pursue the recognition and cost the state around RM5mil to bring the proposal to Unesco.
“A working group led by Machang Bubok assemblyman Lee Khai Loon and George Town World Heritage Incorporated will pursue Penang’s Unesco hawker culture recognition ambition.
“It might take about five years to complete.
“It would cost the state at least RM5mil to bring the proposal to Unesco via the National Heritage Department at the Federal level, ” he said at a press conference held by Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow in Komtar recently.
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