Transcript Ministry of Manpower

Forward-Looking Skills Development
- Singapore’s perspective experience
16 March 2010
Mr Jeffrey Wong, Divisional Director ,
Manpower Planning & Policy Division,
Ministry of Manpower, Singapore
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CET Masterplan to prepare workers
for the future
• Comprehensive plan to develop human capital as
a source of competitive advantage for Singapore:
– CET is accessible, affordable and adds value to the
careers of all workers
• The CET system will:
– For employers: enhance effectiveness and productivity
by helping their workers acquire industry relevant skills
and stay ahead of industry developments
– For workers: integrate the education and CET systems
to form a lifelong learning system to help workers find
their niches, seize opportunities in new growth areas and
remain industry relevant
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A Strong CET Infrastructure is required to up-skill
workers and meet industry needs
5
16
62 & beyond
24
age
Pre-employment education
Kindergarten → University
Shaping the need for Continuing Education and Training
Industry-based and accessible skills training for working adults
New issues faced by Singaporean workers…
• Structural unemployment
• Multiple careers in a working life
• Technological, economic and demographic changes
• Emerging Industries requiring new skills
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Aim to build a first class Continuing
Education & Training (CET) system
1. Prioritise and
develop standards
Skills
Standards
3. Drive
industry
adoption &
implement
progs
Tripartite
Outreach
Career
Centres
Quality
Trainers
Sustained
Funding
(LLEF & SDF)
2. Build
up trng
providers
Quality
Training
Providers
Two National CET
Campuses (by 2013)
National CET Institutes
CET Centre
Approved Training
Organisations
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CET infrastructure comprises three pillars
ES
(Employability Skills )
WSQ
(Workforce Skills
Qualifications System)
CET
Institutions
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Employability Skills (ES) equips our
workforce with generic and portable skills…
ES
• Workplace literacy & numeracy
• Lifelong Learning
• Information & Communications
Technology
• Global Mindset
• Problem Solving & Decision
Making
• Self-management
• Initiative & Enterprise
• Workplace-related
Life Skills
• Communication & Relationship
Management
• Health & Workplace
Safety
Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ) provides
upgrading pathways in specific industries
Industry X
WSQ
Occupational
skills within
industry cluster
Career
Industry Y
transitions
Occupational
Skills
Generic skills &
knowledge
relevant to an
industry cluster
Industry
Knowledge
& Skills
The
economy
as a whole
Generic Employability
Skills
Underlying Principles
 Authoritative
 Accessible
 Relevant
 Allows for
progression
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But WSQ training is only as good as the
institutions delivering them
50 CET
Institutions
Examples of CET Institutions
ES
Precision Engineering
• NTUC LearningHub
• Singapore Institute of
Manufacturing Technology
Generic Manufacturing
• Electronics Industries
Training Centre (ELITC)
Healthcare Support
Retail
• Singapore Institute of Retail
Studies
• Health Management
International Ltd (HMI)
Security
Landscape
Tourism and F&B
• Centre of Urban Greenery
and Ecology
• Tourism Management
Institute of Singapore
• At-Sunrice GlobalChef
Academy
Security Industry Institute
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Such an infrastructure brings
assistance directly to workers…
Build up CET
institutions
Reduced
Course Fees
Application for
reimbursement
Employer
support
CET for the future
• Forward planning: we make sure the skills
requirements of industries including new
investments are factored in early in the planning
process
• Integration of CET plans with economic plans: this
is done by the same agencies responsible for the
economic planning of Singapore, and we also
seek industry’s inputs
– Broad directions are set by Ministerial-level National
Manpower Council as well as the recently established
National Productivity and CET Council
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Building Up Skills Base in Key Sectors
Finance
Aerospace
Local
Skills
Base
Precision Eng
Tourism
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CET plays critical role in supporting economic growth
and labour market
Quarterly Employment Change and Q-o-Q Annualised GDP Change, Q308 to 0409
80,000
40.0%
60,000
Employment Change
40,000
20.0%
20,000
0
-20,000
0.0%
Q308
Q408
Q109
Q209
Q309
Q409
1H09:-13,900
-40,000
Source: Administrative Records
-20.0%
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Q-o-Q Annualised GDP Change
2H09:51,500
THANK YOU
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