Reviews and Audits of Course Listings on SkillsFuture Career Transition Programme Portal

Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament

Dr Hamid Razak, West Coast-Jurong West GRC

Question

To ask the Minister for Education (a) whether the Ministry conducts regular reviews and audits of course listings on the SkillsFuture Career Transition Programme portal to ensure that inactive or unavailable courses are promptly removed; (b) if so, how frequently such reviews are conducted, and (c) if not, why not.

Response

1. SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) regularly reviews courses that receive SSG funding, including SkillsFuture Career Transition Programmes (SCTPs). Courses which have been discontinued, or assessed to be not industry-relevant, will be removed.
2. Some courses on mySkillsFuture portal do not have scheduled course runs, because training providers make these course runs available only when there is a critical mass of learners. We are working with these providers to avail scheduled course runs earlier. Meanwhile, SSG has recently improved the portal to allow learners to filter courses by course run availability.
3. SSG also works with approved training providers to launch SCTPs for job roles and sectors with strong hiring demand, in consultation with sector agencies and the industry. For example, over 100 SCTPs were launched this year in high-demand areas such as artificial intelligence, digital analytics and sustainability. This allows us to continually refresh our course offerings to meet industry needs.