The coLAB is a learning opportunity which enables the students to have actual, direct and guided real-time workplace experience in their field of specialization through collaboration with different companies in the manufacturing industry.

FIRST College SHS students finish classroom-based subjects in Grade 11 and undergo 8-hours of work-based training daily for 10 months with a locator partner in Grade 12.

It enables the SHS students to hone the necessary industry-specific skills and to upgrade existing competencies, thereby producing skilled graduates that are readily employable by the companies after graduation.