By Practitioners, not consultants.
A practice of curriculum developers, subject-matter experts and
adult educators, trusted by Approved Training Organisations (ATOs).
We accept a limited number of new engagements each quarter.
No two engagements are alike, and none are drawn from a template.
Curriculum developers and adult educators registered on the National Adult Educator Registry.
Led by a senior professional adult educator with close to one hundred courseware submissions.
Invited by SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) to speak on best practices in strengthening training quality through effective AE systems and practices.
Learning ought not to be priced out of reach of the people who most need to learn. The practice keeps its costs deliberately modest so the fees never find their way down to the learner.
A short heritage, plainly stated.
Four markers from the practice's correspondence, the milestones we feel comfortable putting on paper, and which a curious reader might want to weigh before writing to us.
The practice opens by invitation, the beginning of a growing community of curriculum developers and adult educators.
The practice has rendered curriculum and advisory services across thirteen Approved Training Organisations, spanning multiple sectors and learning frameworks.
Approaching one hundred SSG courseware submissions completed collectively across the practice, spanning WSQ and non-WSQ certifiable courses.
Courseware reaches the industry at scale, including the FTIC Code of Conduct workshop reported by The Business Times in 2022.
Keith Ho
SDip (HRM), MSHRI
DACE, ACLP, ACTA, IAL-SAE
TAEPP Level 3 Senior Professional AE Verify
HRD Corp Accredited Trainer (Malaysia)
Keith Ho is a training and education professional with more than a decade in Singapore's Continuing Education and Training sector. He serves as General Manager of 1ST Aid & Healthcare and convenes Twobirds as an independent advisory and courseware-development practice.
His work has reached the industry at scale, including the Fair Tenancy Industry Committee (FTIC) programme featured by The Business Times in 2022, and a Grade 1 outcome under SSG's TPQA framework at Adept Academy.
Four practice areas, one standard of care.
Tiered pricing plans, sized to your scope. We offer arrangements that ease with each additional curriculum development, designed to support training providers. Write to us for an indicative quote.
Curriculum Development
Programme architectures, lesson and assessment plans, trainer guides and marking schemes, drawn from a single competency map and submitted on your behalf.
Read the briefTrainers and SMEs Sourcing
We introduce suitable and qualified trainers and subject-matter experts to training providers at no cost, drawing on a growing network of certified adult educators.
Read the briefTPQA and Compliance Advisory
A complimentary consultation on TPQA advisory and pre-audit gap analysis, intended to strengthen your training operations and uplift the standard across the sector.
Read the briefATO Setup and Operations
End-to-end advisory for prospective and first-time training providers, from organisation registration through operating procedures and first cohort.
Read the briefFrequent enquiries.
The questions most often put to the practice, answered plainly, in the same register as our correspondence.
The practice runs on a community of practitioners rather than a staffed office. There is no marketing budget to recover and no recruitment margin levied on the SMEs we source. Where our practitioners can fulfil the brief, the work is priced on the work itself.
Where your brief can be matched from our community, the introduction is free. Where our practitioners cannot match the brief, we source through the usual recruitment channels (Jobstreet and the like) and recover only the direct costs of the search. There is no placement fee.
No. Twobirds does not hold a recruitment licence and we do not place candidates into employment. We make introductions between training providers and practitioners we know; the arrangement, the rates and the working relationship are entirely between the two parties.
Every brief is led by a Level 3 Senior Professional AE under TAEPP, accompanied by at least two DACE / DDDLP accredited curriculum developers, scaling to three where the brief requires. We do not subcontract; every practitioner joins us by invitation.
Twenty minutes of correspondence, by call or by note, to understand the brief, the timeline and the form of SSG funding that fits the course. We will tell you, plainly, whether the work is something we should take on and what it would cost. There is no obligation either way.