Registration of coaches and instructors

Overview

The MOE registration system provides schools with information on instructors' suitability to conduct activities for students. To ensure a safe learning environment for students, schools can only engage instructors who are registered with MOE.

Instructors are registered based on the area(s) of service (AoS) they wish to provide to schools. In addition, MOE requires baseline certifications for some AoS. Applicants for these areas will need to submit relevant certifications at the point of registration - Physical Sports Co-Curricular Activities (CCA), Performing Arts - Dance CCA, Art and Music Instructors Scheme (AMIS) and Outdoor Adventure Learning (OAL) height-based and water-based activities (refer to the Registration requirements section below).

Who must register

The following individuals must register with MOE before they can be engaged by schools:

• CCA coaches and instructors.
• AMIS instructors.
• OAL height-based and water-based instructors.
• Programme for active learning (PAL) instructors.
• Conversational Chinese or Malay instructors.
• Instructors for activities that involve overnight stay or overseas trips with students.
• All other instructors of school-based CCA and enrichment activities lasting more than 8 hours per contract (for example, 1 term of weekly 2-hour sessions).

If you are a travel agency employee

If you conduct overseas trips or local learning journeys for students, you need to register with MOE before you can be engaged by schools.

These include:

• Travel agency staff who accompany students on overseas trips, regardless of their duties (for example, tour guide, learning facilitator, tour manager), or when they join the trip (from the start of the trip from Singapore or in the later part of the trip).
• Travel agency staff accompanying students on local learning journeys.

Note: Overseas personnel (for example, native tour guides or learning facilitators) who are not direct employees of the tour agency do not need to register with MOE.

Registration requirements

All instructors must be at least 18 years of age.

In addition, the following roles have specific registration requirements.

How to register

REMS 2.0 is now available. Please register online if:

• You are registering for the first time.
• You are applying for re-registration within 90 days (about 3 months) before the expiry date of your registration.

We will inform you of the outcome of your application about 6 to 8 weeks (or sooner where possible) after receiving your completed application form. Schools may interview you to assess your suitability based on their needs before engaging your service.

Evaluation criteria

In general, instructors will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

• Age (should be at least 18 years of age)
• Area of service
• Relevant qualifications and experience, if any
• Employment history
• Registration with a relevant professional body, if applicable
• Self-declaration form

Tenure of service

Each registration is valid for 2 years.

All instructors must remain registered during the tenure of their services. Instructors who wish to continue providing services to schools must re-register before the expiry date of their registration.

All instructors shall ensure that their certification and accreditation in their respective area(s) of service remain current and valid throughout the period of engagement with schools. For example, Physical Sports CCA instructors would need to ensure that they have a valid National Registry of Coaches (NROC) membership and Standard First Aid (SFA) certificate throughout their engagement with schools.

Schools will terminate the services of instructors when their registration expires. Schools will also end their contract with companies that cannot provide suitable replacements for instructors who are no longer registered with MOE.

Instructors who no longer meet the suitability criteria will be deregistered and be informed of their de-registration. All schools will then terminate their contracts with the de-registered instructor.

MOE’s decisions to decline registration or re-registration, or impose de-registration of an instructor is not a judgement of the instructor's competency to act in any other capacity outside of MOE.

Contact information

For technical help with the online registration process, please contact:

 Email: MOE_REMS@moe.edu.sg

For all other queries on registration, please contact:

 Email: MOE_IRS@moe.edu.sg

Other information 

You can also refer to the FAQs for more information.