Judith Arul,

Judith started her teaching career in the CHIJ schools where she completed her secondary education. Wanting to spread her wings, she moved into the government schools and has continued as an Education Office with the Ministry of education until she retired. Besides her classroom-related experience, Judith has also conducted teacher-training and observation planned and implemented curriculum and served as external examiner both as an MOE Specialist Inspector and an independent educationist. Judith’s educational experience has been extended to research, preparation and publication of teaching materials, promoting the use of thinking tools, linguistic editing of texts and multi-media materials, copywriting and editing and, just for fun, working on newsletters and other publications for her community.

Timothy Green,

is from the UK. Having qualified as a CELTA teacher here in Singapore, Tim has been working at Ascend for nearly two years. He believes in building a good rapport with his students and making his lessons as interactive as possible to encourage life-long learning. Tim enjoys helping students to improve their English and finds it enormously rewarding to see students developing their skills. Tim previously worked for a British Member of Parliament for nearly 12 years as Office Manager and Senior Research Assistant, and holds a Master’s degree in Politics from Birkbeck College, University of London.

Roger Anderson,

Originating from the north of Scotland in the UK, Roger has spent the past 30 years in various parts of Asia - the last 20 of these in Singapore - and holds a Cambridge CELTA and an Honours degree in Chemistry and Maths. With earlier careers in industry and in business Roger has taught all levels of English from Starter to IELTS, in Thailand and Singapore, and is happy now to be playing a role in ensuring that all Ascend Students receive top value from their courses with us. A very shy French student himself, Roger's particular concern is in giving students the confidence to use English in the real world.

Anna Beatrice Manyam,

is a Singapore citizen, and her first language is English. Her main duties have been to teach English as a first language in the public schools and English as a second language in the International schools and at the National University of Singapore. She has organised and managed Summer School programmes for various International Schools and assisted the ESL department in writing the curriculum for their new ESL programme and she was also involved with student placement.  In addition she experience in assisting foreign students in achieving high marks in IELTS. At present she is in the part time employment of the National Institute of Education as a supervising co-coordinator helping to conduct the practicum for student teachers