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The growing community

By Practitioners, not consultants.

A practice of curriculum developers, subject-matter experts and adult educators, trusted by Approved Training Organisations (ATOs).

We take on only a handful of new engagements each quarter, so that every one receives our full attention. No two are alike, and none is ever drawn from a template.

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TAEPP-registered practitioners

Curriculum developers and adult educators registered on the National Adult Educator Registry.

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Level 3 Senior AE under TAEPP

Led by a senior professional adult educator with close to one hundred courseware submissions.

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2025 TPQA Outreach speaker

Invited by SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) to speak on best practices in strengthening training quality through effective AE systems and practices.

What we believe
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.
FROM THE FOUNDER · KEITH HO
Our practice · our standing

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.

Started
2024

The practice opens by invitation, the beginning of a growing community of curriculum developers and adult educators.

Across the sector
2019

The practice has rendered curriculum and advisory services across thirteen Approved Training Organisations, spanning multiple sectors and learning frameworks.

Submissions
100+

Approaching one hundred SSG courseware submissions completed collectively across the practice, spanning WSQ and non-WSQ certifiable courses.

Industry impact
2022

Courseware reaches the industry at scale, including the FTIC Code of Conduct workshop reported by The Business Times in 2022.

Fields of expertise

Four practice areas,
one standard of care.

On engagement

Tiered plans, sized to your scope, easing with each additional curriculum development. Write to us for an indicative quote.

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Curriculum Development

Programmes built from a single competency map, written to be taught and ready to be submitted.

We draw the architecture of a course, then write every part it needs to stand. Lesson and assessment plans, trainer guides and marking schemes, each traced back to the same competency map and submitted to SSG on your behalf.

  • Competency mapping
  • Lesson and assessment design
  • TPGateway submission
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Sourcing and ATO Setup

The people and the registration, from first intent to your first cohort.

We introduce trainers and subject-matter experts to providers at no cost, and walk prospective and first-time training organisations through the whole of setup. From registration and accreditation to the moment your first cohort sits down.

  • Trainer and SME sourcing
  • ATO registration
  • First-cohort readiness
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TPQA and Compliance Advisory

Audit-readiness, quietly rehearsed long before the auditor arrives.

A complimentary consultation on TPQA advisory and pre-audit gap analysis, written to strengthen your training operations and lift the standard across the sector. The documents in order, the work behind them already done.

  • TPQA advisory
  • Pre-audit gap analysis
  • Operational uplift
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Creative Marketing and Branding

The brand a registered training provider is at liberty to commission, composed within the practice.

Strategy, schedule and the finished work, held within SSG's advertising rules. Identity, websites and interfaces, and personal branding video produced with our partner ST Warrior.

  • Brand and messaging
  • Websites and identity
  • Personal branding video
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Important answers

Frequent enquiries.

The questions most often put to the practice, answered plainly.

Accessible pricing is a design choice, not a discount. The practice is structured to that end. A community of senior practitioners working under modest overheads, no staffed office to maintain, no marketing budget to recover and no placement margin levied on the SMEs we source. The fee covers the work and the people doing it, and nothing more. We hold to it because the sector we serve, and the learners beyond it, are better off when good curriculum and sound advisory remain within reach of the providers who need them.

Where your engagement can be matched from our community, the introduction is free. Where our practitioners cannot match the engagement, 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.

Every engagement 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 engagement requires. We do not subcontract; every practitioner joins us by invitation.

Twenty minutes of correspondence, by call or by note, to understand the engagement, 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.

PracticeSingapore · by appointment

No public office. Meetings held at your premises or a venue of your choosing.

Correspondencehello@2birds.sg

Replies within two working days, during business hours.

Working HoursMonday to Friday
09:00am to 06:00pm

Excluding weekends and public holidays.