Our Board of International Advisors extends their expert advice and updates us on the latest trends and innovations in early childhood education. We tap on their expertise and extensive experience to incorporate best practices in early childhood education in our curriculum, thus allowing us to continually refine and enhance our programmes.

Dr. Raymond Wilks

BA GIAE, MA Deakin, TPTC, GradDipAppChPsych Phillip, Ph.D RMIT, MAPS. Head, Division of Psychology, RMIT; Director RMIT University Psychology Clinic; Program Leader, Postgraduate Psychology Programs

Dr. Wilks is currently Head of the Division of Psychology at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia. He commenced his career as a Primary School teacher before becoming an Educational Psychologist and then a lecturer in psychology at RMIT University. During his appointment at RMIT University he has, at various times co-ordinated the Honours in Psychology program, the postgraduate professional psychology programs and served as the Director of the RMIT University Psychology Clinic. For the last three years he has been the Head of the Division of Psychology. Dr Wilks has written numerous psychology journals and research reports and has also conducted many seminars and conference presentation in Australia, the most recent being a seminar at the Nutritional Society of Australia conference in Melbourne, “Using cognitive behaviour therapy to promote behaviour change in overweight and obese adolescents”

Dr Wilks is also a member of the Australian College of Education, the Australian Psychological Society, the College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists, the College of Clinical Psychologists and the Australian Association of Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy.

Dr. Harold Robers

M.A. (Counselling); M.A., Ph.D (Clinical Psychology), Clinical Psychologist/Marriage
and Family Therapist

Dr Harold Robers is a USA-trained clinical psychologist and a marriage and family therapist, with more than 15 years of professional experience. He engages in therapeutic work with both Western expatriates and Asians. He has been trained in a variety of approaches including: psychodynamic, gestalt, cognitive-behavioural, marriage, family & child and bio-feedback therapies. Dr Robers also provides psychological assessment and consultation services to children, adolescents, adults, organisations and statutory boards. He trains and provides supervision to professional psychologists and therapists as well as lectures at several tertiary level institutions. Dr Robers is also a member of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Learning Vision Holdings

Professor Barbara T Bowman

co-founder and former president of
Erikson Institute

Professor Barbara T Bowman is an internationally recognized authority on early childhood education, a lifelong proponent of higher education for those who teach and care for young children, and a pioneer in building knowledge and understanding of the issues of access and equity for minority children. Currently, she serves as chief officer of the Chicago Public Schools' Office of Early Childhood Education. For more than 50 years, through teaching, research, and advocacy, Professor Bowman has been a powerful advocate for children and those who have made them their life's work.

She is also past president of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and has served on numerous boards, including the High Scope Educational Foundation, the Institute for Psychoanalysis, and the Chicago Public Library Foundation. Her most recent appointments include the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, the Great Books Foundation, and chair of the Committee on Early Childhood Pedagogy of the National Research Council.

Professor Bowman also writes for leading academic journals and reports, and edited the National Academy of Science's Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers. She served on the National Research Council's literacy committee that produced the report, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, and participated in a public schools–focused project that introduced developmentally appropriate practices and authentic assessment in the early grades.

She has received many honors including the Chicago League of Women Voters' Civic Contribution Award, the Mercedes Award, and honorary doctorates from Dominican University, Bank Street College, Governor's State University, Roosevelt University, and Wheelock College.

Dr Lily Wong

Executive Director of Advent Links- SAUC and education centre for children and family studies

Dr Lily Wong is an educational psychologist by training and a professor of psychology/education by appointment, for the last 30 years. She holds a Doctorate in Educational Psychology and Counseling from Andrew’s University in Michigan, and Bachelor and Master in Education degrees from the Adventist University of Philipines.

Her post doctorate studies and research in Complex Instruction was from Stanford University, USA, and in Quality Infant and Toddler Care Giving from Syracuse University, USA. She has a Teacher’s Credential for Supervision of Child Development Centres and Instruction from the State of California – for life.In Singapore, she is accredited as a supervisor and trainer for all the preschool education courses.

Dr Lily Wong is a member and resource person on a number of policy, ethics and programme committees, including MCYS, the World Forum International Advisory Board/ National Representative Scholastic Advisory Board, AECES, OMEP, National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), and the Educational Research Association, Singapore.

She has researched, written and published on various issues concerning family, children and education. She was awarded the Woman of the Year (Family Life) award 2002, USA and a Long Service Award by MCYS, Singapore, in 2003.