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Tembusu Institute's Advanced Diploma in Fashion Technology caters to the individual who wants the full suite of skills and knowledge needed to break into the Fashion Industry.

A holistic learning experience, one part of the programme guides students through each step in the business of fashion - from creating your brand, to utilising digital marketing to sell your products. This programme will also provide the fundamentals of quality assurance, merchandise planning, sourcing, tracking and costing of materials for your collection, allowing you to gain an insight into the key financials of your business.

The other part of the programme will deep-dive into technical skills like drafting, sewing, draping, pattern-making, and apparel development techniques. Your new-found skills will also be coupled with the latest in digital and virtual prototyping technologies, preparing you for the future of Fashion.

With Tembusu Institute.'s Advanced Diploma programme, you'll gain the tools needed to create and sustain your label while confidently navigating the demands of this dynamic industry.

Trainer: Trainee Ratio - 1: 40

Specially tailored to focus on industry-relevant areas, Tembusu Institute's Diploma in Apparel Design & Product Development emphasises necessary skills such as technical specification for materials, sewing, pattern drafting and development, among others. With Tembusu Institute’s experienced trainers, you will also gain in-depth knowledge about how to manage quality assurance, creating your own fashion brand, merchandise buying, and developing your own design collection.

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Trainer: Trainee Ratio - 1: 18

Welcome to the Orientation Programme! This course is designed to provide new participants with a comprehensive introduction to our institution's culture, values, and essential practices. Over the course of this programme, you will gain insights into the resources available to support your success, understand the expectations for your academic and professional journey, and become familiar with key policies and procedures.

Through interactive sessions, group activities, and informative presentations, you will connect with peers, meet faculty and staff, and explore the tools and strategies needed to thrive in your new environment. Whether you are a student, staff member, or faculty, this programme is tailored to ensure you feel prepared, informed, and excited to embark on this new chapter.

By the end of the Orientation Programme, you will have a solid foundation to navigate your journey confidently and make the most of the opportunities available to you.

Go beneath the surface and learn various textiles, down to the fibers and the processes involved in weaving, dyeing and much more. This comprehensive course provides you with the ability to identify fabrics by their industry’s name, the fundamental knowledge to help you understand the risks of using certain fabrics, empowering you with the ability to trouble shoot issues related to textiles limitations. You will experience screen printing in class, e-learning and receive a complimentary copy of your very own fabric reference library consisting of 50 – 60 different types of fabric swatches.

This module builds professionals' capability to identify opportunities for change and apply emerging AI technologies and automation systems, synthesizing trends across text, image, video, audio and data analytics to enhance business operations. Participants implement guidelines and policies through structured change management practices, applying business data analysis, data strategy and data governance to assess AI applications within their operations. Through hands-on exercises in automated process design, text analytics and processing, user experience design and social media management, participants monitor adoption outcomes and implement continuous improvement processes to sustain responsible emerging technology adoption.

AI Workflow Automations equips senior retail professionals with expertise in technology strategy formulation — conducting emerging technology synthesis, trends evaluation and application, and information gathering and analysis to support technology adoption and innovation. Participants apply artificial intelligence applications, data analytics, business data analysis and text analytics and processing across automation system maintenance and automated system maintenance workflows — extracting live business data via APIs to drive informed decision-making. Grounded in data governance, data strategy and change management, the module develops user experience design thinking and data design capability to govern AI adoption across retail functions.

This course equips participants with practical skills to apply Agentic AI — autonomous, multi-step AI workflows — across every dimension of e-commerce campaign management. Participants will learn how to deploy agentic AI to generate e-commerce web pages and storefronts, plan and execute campaign tactics, manage budgets, and identify and target customer segments across online and social platforms. The course develops capability to monitor customer satisfaction signals in real time, personalize and automate campaign message delivery using agentic AI and cron job scheduling, and evaluate campaign performance through AI-driven analytics and testing tools. Participants will also apply agentic AI to research market trends and competitor activity, generating strategic recommendations to continuously refine e-commerce strategy.

To empower entrepreneurs and marketers with the skills to transform their businesses by moving from manual workflows to autonomous, self-healing AI systems. Participants will learn to leverage Agentic AI to automate web commerce, handle customer inquiries via WhatsApp, and generate high-quality video content—all without requiring any coding knowledge.

AI Productivity Hacks for Work equips working professionals with practical skills in emerging technology synthesis, artificial intelligence applications, and automation system maintenance — applying AI tools responsibly and consistently across core professional tasks. Participants develop competencies in text analytics and processing, data design, business data analysis, and data strategy — producing outputs governed by sound data governance principles. Grounded in change management, user experience design, and social media management, every session is hands-on, with each topic delivering an immediately applicable, job-ready deliverable.

Agentic AI and Automation prepares retail professionals to synthesise and apply emerging AI technologies across the full web content and digital automation stack. Participants evaluate cause-and-effect relationships across interconnected agentic pipelines — applying artificial intelligence application, data governance and data strategy to configure digital storefronts, deploy intelligent systems and anticipate the impact of operational transformation across business functions. The module develops automation system maintenance and change management capabilities, equipping participants to extract and analyse text data to discover themes and trends, and apply business data analysis using computational techniques to generate business insights across organisational systems.

This course equips participants with practical skills to apply Agentic AI — autonomous, multi-step AI workflows — across every dimension of e-commerce campaign management. Participants will learn how to deploy agentic AI to generate e-commerce web pages and storefronts, plan and execute campaign tactics, manage budgets, and identify and target customer segments across online and social platforms. The course develops capability to monitor customer satisfaction signals in real time, personalize and automate campaign message delivery using agentic AI and cron job scheduling, and evaluate campaign performance through AI-driven analytics and testing tools. Participants will also apply agentic AI to research market trends and competitor activity, generating strategic recommendations to continuously refine e-commerce strategy.

This module equips retail professionals, brand owners and content creators to establish and scale a high-performing social commerce operation across TikTok Shop, Shopee Live. Participants formulate, execute and evaluate social media marketing strategic plans, applying AI applications and automated process design to build efficient, scalable selling workflows, with automation system maintenance principles embedded to sustain ongoing platform performance. Data strategy, data governance, data design and business data analysis capabilities are developed throughout, supported by analytics and computational modelling to interpret performance data and model audience behaviour. Text analytics and processing are applied to measure content impact, and user experience design principles are used to optimise every buyer interaction and drive informed commercial decisions.

AI for Business Growth equips retail professionals and business owners with the strategic knowledge and applied skills to identify new business opportunities through AI-driven transformation — applying emerging technology and artificial intelligence applications across inventory, supply chain, customer engagement, and digital operations. Participants develop practical skills in data analytics, business data analysis, and data strategy while exploring how automated operation monitoring and data governance principles support reliable, scalable retail systems. With a strong focus on change management and user experience design, the course guides participants through building chatbot flows, AI-enabled SOPs, and CRM automation prototypes — culminating in a capstone strategy canvas that integrates people, processes, and technology into a coherent AI growth roadmap.

Alteraround is a brand-new alteration service proudly developed by Tembusu Institute! With Alteraround, our sewing graduates are able to provide and offer alteration services from the comfort of their own homes. Tembusu Institute is developing a web application to help Singaporeans find alteration shops nearest to their location and match them with the closest alteration personnel. 

Trainer: Trainee Ratio - 1: 18

Learn all the fundamentals of garment construction in a week. Be exposed to the techniques employed in the fashion industry including how garments are constructed and the various seams and stitches utilized in the different components of a garment. With this knowledge, you can minimize impractical designs that cannot be replicated in mass production, eliminate misinterpretation in sampling and production, and improve communication in production specifications.