Oon-Seng Tan

Director of the Centre for Research in Child Development (CRCD)

Professor Oon-Seng Tan is Director of the Centre for Research in Child Development (CRCD). He was previously director of the National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore where he played a significant role in enhancing teacher education and revitalising NIE’s training programmes to raise the image and professionalism of teachers. Prior to his directorship, Prof Tan was dean of teacher education at NIE where he spearheaded the Teacher Education for the 21st Century (TE21) initiative. He is also one of the First Board directors of the National Institute of Early Childhood Development (NIEC). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Educational Research for Policy & Practice (ERPP) journal published by Springer and the Lead Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Education (APJE) published by Routledge.