VIVA EDUCATION was founded in Singapore by Leonard Chow after he graduated with First-Class Honours from the Kaplan-UCD Bachelor of Business Studies programme. During his own years as an international student in Singapore's private-university system, he watched a pattern repeat itself: bright students from Chinese-medium high schools arriving in Singapore, enrolling in a UK or Australian degree delivered through a local Private Education Institution, and then quietly losing marks not because they did not understand the subject — but because no one had translated the assessment culture for them.
A Northumbria rubric, a UCD traffic-light AI declaration, a Murdoch Works-Cited list, a Portsmouth AI Acknowledgment Form — each one is a small piece of academic infrastructure that a UK or Australian domestic student picks up by osmosis, and that an international student in Singapore is often left to decode alone. VIVA exists to close that gap.
We are a small, tutor-led practice. Our founders teach. Our tutors hold honours and postgraduate degrees from the same partner-university system our students study under. We work in English and Mandarin, on the academic conventions of the awarding university, and inside the academic-integrity rules of the school the student is actually enrolled in.