Press Releases - 2015

29/04/2015

WDA Launches SkillsFuture Earn And Learn Programme For Food Manufacturing Focused On Food Product Innovation, Food Processing As Well As Food Safety And Quality Management

The Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) today launched the SkillsFuture Earn and Learn programme for the food manufacturing sector to provide a career headstart for fresh polytechnic graduates1 in areas with fast-growing industry needs.

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28/03/2015

WDA Launches SkillsFuture Earn And Learn Programme To Provide Career Headstart For Fresh Polytechnic And ITE Graduates

The Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) today launched the SkillsFuture Earn and Learn programme, which provides a headstart for fresh polytechnic and Institute of Technical Education (ITE) graduates1 in their careers.

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18/03/2015

Over 3,000 PMEs Set To Benefit From P-Max - WDA's Enhanced Place-And-Train Programme For SMEs

Minister for Manpower, Tan Chuan-Jin, today launched P-Max, an enhanced Place-and-Train programme targeted at Professionals, Managers and Executives (PMEs), P-Max will help participating SMEs to better cope with the challenges of talent recruitment, development and retention in a tight labour market.

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06/03/2015

Support For Enhanced Internships In Early Childhood Care And Education Courses

As part of the national SkillsFuture movement, the Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) will introduce a new Early Childhood Capability Grant to support child care centres and kindergartens that host enhanced internships for students from the full-time Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) courses at the polytechnics and the Institute of Technical Education (ITE). The enhancements in these internship programmes will better support structured learning at the workplace.

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06/03/2015

Appointment Of 17 Sector Coordinators Among Post-Secondary Education Institutions And Launch Of Skills-Based Modular Courses In 2015

SkillsFuture is a national movement that seeks to develop skills for the future and help Singaporeans build a future based on skills mastery. In Budget 2015, DPM Tharman outlined a slate of SkillsFuture initiatives to help every Singaporean to advance based on skills. In the education sector, SkillsFuture efforts include strengthening education and career guidance in schools, enhancing internships to better students' learning at the workplace, and launching the SkillsFuture Earn and Learn Programme to provide fresh graduates from the polytechnics and the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) a head-start in their careers.

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25/02/2015

Innovation Lab (iN.LAB)

An Innovation Lab known as iN.LAB will be set up by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency’s (WDA) Institute for Adult Learning (IAL), at the Lifelong Learning Institute. iN.LAB is a key initiative under the SkillsFuture Council’s drive to promote technology in learning and propel innovative learning design and delivery, so as to enhance learning experience and efficacy.

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23 Mar 2023