The STU organised two Regional Meetings on the Enhanced Performance Management System (EPMS) which becomes effective for all education officers in the year 2005. It will replace the present system of performance appraisal. The EPMS has already been used to appraise HODs and senior officers. The aim was to make them familiar with the system before they started appraising the teachers.

The STU arranged with the Ong Teng Cheong Institute of Labour Studies to get Mr Victor Kow, a leading consultant on performance appraisal, to run the workshops. The participants who attended went away more familiar with what actions they have to take so as to be fully prepared for the EPMS when it is implemented in 2005.