ITE College Central
ITE College Central (ITECC) is one of the Institute of Technical Education's three colleges under the "One ITE System, Three Colleges" Governance and Education Model. The college also houses the headquarter of the Institute of Technical Education. Campus. This third comprehensive college covers a land area of 10.61 hectares with a total gross floor area of 192,820m. It opened to its first cohort of students in January 2013. The campus was officially opened on 8 November that year by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. History. Originally the ITE College Central schools are located in 5  locations at Bedok, Bishan, MacPherson, Tampines and Yishun until it ceased operations in December 2012. The new campus replaced the original decentralised campuses, and has moved into its current premises at Ang Mo Kio in December 2012 together with ITE Headquarters. While the MacPherson and Bishan branches has been demolished for other purposes. Now, the other two campuses of ITE are located at the East and West respectively. ITE College East is located at Simei and was opened in January 2005. While ITE College West is located at Choa Chu Kang and was opened in July 2010. Culture and traditions . Uniform. Students are to wear the prescribed uniform. Inside the collar, there is a colour that represents different courses. Students are required to be in Physical Outfit for Physical Activities, students must change back to school uniform after physical activities. The Physical Education T-Shirt is a plain white shirt with two strips of the course colours. The colours below represents different types of courses: Academic schools and courses. ITE College Central has four schools; School of Business & Services, School of Design & Media, School of Electronics & Info-Communications Technology and School of Engineering, running a total of 51 courses. Traineeship . ITE College Central has traineeship course. Traineeship course consist of experience trainer, ITE and the person who sign up for traineeship. It helps to gain a head start in career, will receive a certificate as a full-time student but will receive an additional certificate. Once the person who sign up for traineeship gets accepted, training will start immediately. Traineeship has different of varieties of different courses and different course needs different criteria to enter. Facilities. In Zentrum, the commercial belt, there are shops and restaurants open to ITE students, staff and the general public, such as Popular Bookstore, First  Culinary Restaurant, POSB Bank, Sheng Siong Supermarket and Koufu Foodcourt. Also located in ITE College Central is ITEepitome, an authentic training facility for students to work and interact with customers in a genuine commercial setting.