From the British Armed Forces Defence Academy's website:
http://www.defac.ac.uk/spotlights/jswoc-liaison-visit-to-singapore-armed-forces-warrant-officers-school-safwos/document_view
'International attendance on the (British) Joint Services Warrant
Officers Course (JSWOC) has grown considerably during the last
year, particularly from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF).
Since February 2006, 7 Senior Warrant Officers (SWO) and Master
Warrant Officers (MWO) from Singapore have completed the JSWOC in
order to supplement the already-comprehensive training given to WOs
in the SAF. As a result of this interest, and to consolidate the
ties between the two countries, Sqn Ldr Dave Lewis of the JSWOC
staff, visited the Singapore Armed Forces Warrant Officers School
(SAFWOS) in March on a fact finding mission.
The SAFWOS is situated in an impressive purpose-renovated building
at Pasir Laba Camp, and is part of the Specialist and Warrant
Officer Institute (SWI), the mission of which is to train WOs and
Specialists (equivalent to UK NCOs) to be of high calibre and high
quality. The SAFWOS itself aims to provide suitable education and
training in order to develop WOs as excellent middle echelon
leaders. In order to achieve its aim, the school promotes a regime
of rigorous and demanding training, life-long education, the
sharing of individual experiences and individual acceptance of
responsibility for learning and development. It also encourages
active participation in physical fitness and non-attribution
(similar to Chatham House Rules) to facilitate frank discussions
and exchanges of ideas. The intention is to make SAFWOS the
spiritual home of the SAF WO Corps and to encourage all WOs to see
it as such. Even when not attending courses, the WOs are encouraged
to visit the school on a regular basis in order to make use of the
facilities and to interact with other personnel of the same
rank.
The courses delivered by the SAFWOS encompass the whole span of WO
service in the SAF from the Joint Warrant Officer Course (a 9-week
promotion course for newly promoted 2nd WOs) to the Senior
Leadership Programme (SLP) (a 5-week course to upgrade the
professional knowledge and skills of the most senior WOs). The SLP
has much in common with the JSWOC, and the two courses have many
matching elements. The 2007 SLP was running during Sqn Ldr Lewis
visit, and he took the opportunity to discuss these common themes,
and indeed the differences between the two courses, with the
Commander SWI, the Chief Instructor SAFWOS, the SAFWOS DS and the
SLP students. He also spent 4 days with the SLP, observing the
course, the instruction methods used, and he was also able to
present the merits of attending the JSWOC to the SLP and other
courses being held in the SAFWOS.'