NLCS (Singapore) celebrates International Women's Day with 'HerStory' Exhibition

SINGAPORE, March 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- North London Collegiate School (Singapore) marked International Women's Day 2026 with a series of meaningful events under the banner 'HerStory', bringing together students, parents, media, community leaders, and Singapore-based advocates designed to highlight women's voices, stories, and leadership in a shared commitment to empowerment, equality, and purposeful giving.

The week-long programme celebrated women and inspired young people, creating a space where the next generation sits alongside those already driving change, and where shared purpose translates into collective action. 

Rooted in a 175-Year Legacy of Female Empowerment

The values driving HerStory Week are inseparable from the founding story of NLCS itself. Frances Mary Buss established North London Collegiate School in 1850, pioneering girls' academic education at a time when rigorous learning for women was far from guaranteed. She believed that every girl deserves equal opportunity to access education that builds confidence, knowledge, and the power to shape her own future and she gave her life's work to making that belief a reality, shaping generations of leaders, innovators, and change-makers in the process.  

The HerStory Dinner

The centrepiece of the week was the HerStory Dinner, a thought-leadership event built around the theme: "What Will You Give to Gain through Knowledge, Time, and Advocacy." It was an evening designed not just to commemorate, but to ask everyone in the room how they might contribute meaningfully through knowledge-sharing, service, and advocacy.   

Presentations across the evening explored what it truly means to give, shining light on the initiatives, causes, and communities that NLCS (Singapore) has rallied around.  

Student Leadership and Advocacy in Action 

HerStory Week placed student voices and student action at its heart. Across the school, young people stepped forward to reflect on what equality means to them through their societies, their service, and their leadership, showing that the next generation is not waiting to inherit a more equal world, they are already building it. 

Student ambassadors from across year groups spoke to the importance of equity, inclusion, wellbeing, and belonging, sharing their commitment to upstanding values, advocacy, and creating a community where every individual feels valued and supported.  

MercuriX, the school's national champion STEM Racing team preparing for the World Finals, used the week to champion inclusive leadership in STEM, pledging to mentor younger female students and making the case that the most diverse teams build the best solutions.  

The Student Athlete Coaching Programme connects Junior and Senior School students through sport, with female senior students modelling leadership and inspiring younger peers to see themselves as capable leaders.  

The Amnesty International Society continued its steady work writing letters and petitions in support of human rights cases worldwide, rounded in the belief that no act of advocacy is too small to matter.  

The GreenWave Society channeled its energy into sustainability on and off campus, fundraising grassroots charities and proving that student-led action reaches far beyond the classroom.  

The school's Pacha Club, the first chapter of the global Pachamama Project to launch in Asia, has been creating reusable period pads for refugees and people experiencing period poverty, keeping girls in school and restoring dignity where it matters most. 

Community Partners: Giving Where It Matters Most  

HerStory Week also made room for the voices beyond the school walls, including women and organisations from across Singapore's women's empowerment, migrant worker welfare, and gender advocacy communities who joined the gathering not as guests, but as proof that giving through knowledge, time, and advocacy is already remaking the world.  

About North London Collegiate School (Singapore)   

Founded in 2020, NLCS (Singapore) is a British International School offering the academically ambitious NLCS curriculum, the IB Middle Years Programme, and the IB Diploma Programme. Drawing on 175 years of heritage, the school nurtures individuals to be intellectually curious and socially confident. Part of a global family of schools, NLCS (Singapore) is committed to developing compassionate global citizens.

Discover the full 'HerStory' Exhibition gallery and more stories from our community by following NLCS (Singapore) on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. To learn more, please visit nlcssingapore.sg or get in touch with us today.

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NLCS (Singapore) celebrates International Women's Day with 'HerStory' Exhibition

SYDNEY, Aug. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CBTW, a global technology solutions company operating across 21 countries, has standardised its governed AI engineering model across its Asia-Pacific delivery teams, embedding common AI-assisted workflows, reusable engineering accelerators, human review and client-approved processing environments into regional engineering engagements.

For Australian businesses, the model provides visibility and control over how AI is used by external engineering teams.

The approach spans software engineering, quality engineering, and data and business intelligence. Membership in Anthropic's Claude Partner Network and an active Claude Code certification programme support consistent application across its engineering organisation.

For Australian enterprises building dedicated engineering teams in Vietnam, and businesses across the broader APAC region, these practices are embedded from the beginning of an engagement. Where a centre progresses to full client ownership through CBTW's Build-Operate-Transfer model, engineering practices, technical knowledge and operating governance transfer with the team.

CBTW has completed more than 25 Build-Operate-Transfer engagements and transferred more than 1,000 engineers into client-owned operations.

Governed AI across the engineering lifecycle

Across software delivery, CBTW uses AI-assisted workflows to identify bottlenecks, strengthen coordination and reduce rework. Across its delivery engagements, these practices have contributed to improvements of up to 25 per cent in delivery predictability.

In quality engineering, agentic testing, automated frameworks and AI-assisted test design strengthen release confidence. These approaches have achieved reductions of up to 50 per cent in production incidents in applicable engagements.

Across data and business intelligence, natural language interfaces enable users to query enterprise data and receive answers, summaries and visualisations, reducing reliance on analysts for requests.

Certified teams applying a common AI methodology

CBTW's active Claude Code certification programme targets more than 650 engineers, including more than 330 in APAC and 320 in Europe.

Engineers are trained and certified to use Claude Code for code generation, review, refactoring, documentation and quality assurance within client-approved environments. Client code is processed exclusively within environments approved by each client, supported by CBTW's ISO 27001-certified delivery environment, documented tooling policies, human review requirements and governance controls.

An established regional delivery model with AI built in

CBTW applies these capabilities across regional engineering engagements, including Vietnam-based teams serving Australian businesses. National Australia Bank and Ansarada are among the Australian enterprises that have assumed full ownership of engineering centres established through CBTW's Build-Operate-Transfer model.

The approach supports long-term centres managed by CBTW and centres intended for eventual client ownership. When an engagement progresses to ownership, the team's technical knowledge, delivery processes, AI-enabled ways of working and operating governance move with it.

"Enterprise AI delivers value when it is applied consistently across the engineering lifecycle, with clear traceability and accountability for how it is used," said Pieter van Diermen, CBTW Founder and CEO APAC. "Our standardised delivery practices, governance controls and certification programme give engineering teams a common methodology from the outset."

Supporting Australia's evolving governance expectations

For Australian organisations, AI within software engineering introduces practical questions around which tools external teams use, where code and data are processed, how outputs are reviewed and who remains accountable.

APRA Prudential Standard CPS 230 requires APRA-regulated entities to manage operational risks arising from service providers. New Privacy Act transparency obligations commencing on 10 December 2026 will also require certain APP entities using personal information in automated decision-making to provide relevant information in their privacy policies.

CBTW's delivery controls are designed to help businesses demonstrate how AI is managed across externally delivered engineering work.

For Australian businesses, CBTW's regional delivery model combines APAC engineering capability with standardised AI practices, certified teams and an established pathway to client ownership.

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CBTW Brings Governed AI Engineering to Australian Businesses Through APAC Delivery Teams