The emphasis on innovation stresses the need to build up capabilities and skills to remain competitive. This need challenges both workers and students to strive for a mindset that progresses beyond positive attitudes to include spirit of innovation, resourcefulness and creativity; to continue learning and master new skills; to adapt, innovate and challenge paradigms. Brisk technological changes render job skills outdated rapidly. Our future workforce need to have the capability to learn new skills and the ability to innovate and solve old problems. The future workforce is known as the knowledge workers. Hence, while providing an environment for students to acquire skills and knowledge, the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) regards it as equally important to mould its students into thinking individuals who continually seek innovative best practices and apply new technology creatively. As a learning organization, total training is of immediate importance to the ITE to equip its students with attributes of a knowledge worker and this includes encouraging students' participation in extra-curricular activities. With this in mind, the concept of a Student Quality Circle scheme was mooted and implemented in ITE West (Dover).