Training Courses and Partners Removed from SSG Listing

Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament

Ms Hazlina Abdul Halim, East Coast GRC

Question

To ask the Minister for Education (a) how can companies better partner SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) to highlight suitable courses for their job listings so that jobseekers can better equip themselves with relevant skills; (b) how many training courses and partners have been removed from SSG due to poor performance since January 2025; and (c) how many have rejoined the SkillsFuture directory after the three-month suspension period.

Response

1. Companies play a critical role in influencing and supporting individuals' skills development journey. When they clearly articulate the skills and certifications required for particular jobs, and recognise and reward the competencies attained through skills-first hiring practices, they create stronger impetus for workers to upskill and reskill, to take up those job roles.

2. SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) has appointed Skills Development Partners, who are trade associations and professional bodies, to support companies in these efforts. They help employers identify in-demand priority skills and recognise these skills through suitable credentialling systems, as well as aggregate skills demand to facilitate job re-design and enterprise transformation at the sector level.

3. To date, five Skills Development Partners have been appointed. They are the Institution of Engineers Singapore, Institute for Human Resource Professionals, Singapore Computer Society, SGTech and Singapore Business Federation. We encourage companies to work with these Partners and SSG, to identify skills and training courses that are relevant to the jobs they are hiring for.

4. To safeguard learners' welfare and interests, SSG monitors the quality and outcome ratings closely for its funded programmes through the post-course Training Quality and Outcomes Measurement (TRAQOM) survey that is administered to all trainees. Programmes that perform poorly in TRAQOM will not be renewed for funding. Registered Training Providers offering SSG-funded programmes must also pass SSG's audit to ensure their course quality assurance and administration processes are in place. To date, 42 training providers have been terminated for failing the audit checks. None of them have resumed offering SSG-funded programmes. SSG will continue to strengthen its quality control measures so that programmes are relevant to employers, and validated for quality by learners.