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Lifelong learning on a budget: 5 interesting SkillsFuture courses under S$500

Wondering what to do with your SkillsFuture Credit? Instead of letting it lie dormant and go to waste, why not start the year by acquiring some new skills? After all, you never know when they might come in handy and open up new

17 January 2023

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M-SEP scheme is not U-turn on S’pore’s foreign manpower policy: Tan See Leng

The Manpower for Strategic Economic Priorities (M-SEP) scheme is not a U-turn, said Minister for Manpower Tan See Leng to Workers Party MP Leon Perera in Parliament on January 9. For context, under the M-SEP scheme, firms can temporarily hire S ...

13 January 2023

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This law will ensure S’poreans receive quality continuing education & training

SkillsFuture (SSG) has grown alongside the Singaporeans it serves. You’re not alone if you have taken an SSG course — about 660,000 people took part in them in 2021 alone. Here, new amendments to the SkillsFuture Bill and the Skills Development Lev

12 January 2023

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4 ingredients that will make S’pore a trusted food & nutrition leader

Singapore’s food industry is about to get more flavourful. The Industry Transformation Map (ITM) and Jobs Transformation Map for the Food Manufacturing sector were launched yesterday by Manpower Minister Tan See Leng yesterday (Dec 14). “ ...

15 December 2022

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3 ways countries can build a better future for work

A future featuring resilience and inclusivity is the direction many countries are charting while the pandemic wanes and the world recovers. So establishing a stable environment for decent work and social justice is high on the agenda of the Internati ...

7 December 2022

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Perspectives

How S’pore’s Industry Transformation Maps are uplifting retail & security workers

Industry Transformations Maps (ITM) are here to provide better careers for our entrepreneurial retailers and hardworking security officers. And by “better”, we mean flexible training, future-ready upskilling and more take-home pay. Keeping your secur ...

22 November 2022

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Inside the ongoing quest to equip S’poreans with relevant, in-demand skills

Singapore has got talent. Really. This according to the Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2022, where it finds Singapore the second-best country to find talents. The report also said that developing local talent and attracting global talent have be ...

4 November 2022

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Good guy FairPrice announces yet another discount to fight cost of living: 15% discount on rice

Hot on the heels of a slew of discounts to fight inflation announced a little less than a fortnight ago, NTUC FairPrice announced a 15 per cent discount on three rice products today (Oct 27). The products are Songhe AAA Thai Hom

27 October 2022

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The Rings of Power & the strange parallels to S’pore society

Fantasy stories are especially good at letting people draw parallels to how their own everyday circumstances and problems might be represented. And for this particular social moment, Rings of Power offers an object lesson as to how openness to highly ...

19 October 2022

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How to upgrade yourself to jump on board the future economy’s bandwagon

Remember when everyday cashless payments were the future? The thing about the future economy is that it very soon becomes the present economy. Workers will, like Minister for Communications and Information Josephine Teo said at the 5G Learning Festiv ...

17 October 2022

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All the benefits of the new S$1.5b support package are right here

True to its word, the PAP Government announced a new S$1.5 billion support package to help Singaporean households, particularly the lower-income and retirees with no income, with cost of living pressures. Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who anno ...

14 October 2022

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Easing overseas S’poreans back into home — Tan See Leng builds a global network for S’pore

Calling all overseas Singaporeans — Singapore could use your talents here on this sunny island. This is why there are programmes like the Singapore Financial Forum and the Returning Singaporean Scientists Scheme, Minister for Manpower Tan See Leng sa ...

4 October 2022

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Politically Incorrect: Patrick Tay — Mr S’porean Core who’s always pushing the Govt to support, yes, the S’porean Core

The door-to-door campaign visits of 2020 were unexpectedly helpful for MP Patrick Tay’s (Pioneer) ongoing advocacy for workers’ rights. “I had, in the back of my mind, the idea of providing a one-stop legal clinic to residents,” remembers Mr Tay of t

2 October 2022

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Reaffirming the PAP-NTUC symbiotic relationship

By Winston Ng On Aug 27, 2022, comrades from various branches nationwide came together with sisters and brothers from the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) at the Party Headquarters for a fireside chat with NTUC Secretary-General Ng Chee Meng. Or ...

30 September 2022

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Minimising expectation mismatch & gap: Patrick Tay on viral boss vs intern applicant story

In case you missed it, here’s the hottest story online this week. An employer in Singapore took to Facebook on Sep 15 to share that he had offered a young woman an internship opportunity, only to rescind it after she made a request to

21 September 2022

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Petir Explains: The ONE Pass & S’pore’s search for ‘whales’

“The guppies trained under the whales, with the goal that one day they themselves would grow into whales,” said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at this year’s National Day Rally. This was the story concerning the Government establishing A*STAR i ...

18 September 2022

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Can a 4-day work week help S’poreans create more babies?

Is Singapore ready for a 4-day work week? Perhaps a desired side effect of a more flexible working arrangement is that Singapore might experience a bump in our fertility rate. Labour MP Melvin Yong asked Minister of State for Manpower Gan Siow

13 September 2022

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Liu Bei and today’s war for talent: Tan See Leng teaches from Romance of the Three Kingdoms

A global “war for talent” is on. And an easy and powerful way to understand the situation is through the story of the great ruler Liu Bei repeatedly assembling his generals and advisors in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In Monday’s (Sep

13 September 2022

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Quote of the day: Tan See Leng on the Govt’s singular objective of strengthening the local workforce

In his response to Member of Parliament Mr Yip Hon Weng’s question on how the Government can give assurance to local workers, especially the broad middle segment, that they can benefit from the Overseas Networks and Expertise (One) Pass, Manpow ...

12 September 2022

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How S’poreans will benefit from top global talents, explained by Tan See Leng

The words local, Singapore and Singaporeans appeared more than a hundred times in Manpower Minister Tan See Leng’s ministerial statement on strengthening Singapore’s position as a global hub for talent via the Overseas Networks and Expertise (O ...

12 September 2022

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Lifelong learning on a budget: 5 interesting SkillsFuture courses under S$500

M-SEP scheme is not U-turn on S’pore’s foreign manpower policy: Tan See Leng

This law will ensure S’poreans receive quality continuing education & training

4 ingredients that will make S’pore a trusted food & nutrition leader

3 ways countries can build a better future for work

How S’pore’s Industry Transformation Maps are uplifting retail & security workers

Inside the ongoing quest to equip S’poreans with relevant, in-demand skills

Good guy FairPrice announces yet another discount to fight cost of living: 15% discount on rice

The Rings of Power & the strange parallels to S’pore society

How to upgrade yourself to jump on board the future economy’s bandwagon

All the benefits of the new S$1.5b support package are right here

Easing overseas S’poreans back into home — Tan See Leng builds a global network for S’pore

Politically Incorrect: Patrick Tay — Mr S’porean Core who’s always pushing the Govt to support, yes, the S’porean Core

Reaffirming the PAP-NTUC symbiotic relationship

Minimising expectation mismatch & gap: Patrick Tay on viral boss vs intern applicant story

Petir Explains: The ONE Pass & S’pore’s search for ‘whales’

Can a 4-day work week help S’poreans create more babies?

Liu Bei and today’s war for talent: Tan See Leng teaches from Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Quote of the day: Tan See Leng on the Govt’s singular objective of strengthening the local workforce

How S’poreans will benefit from top global talents, explained by Tan See Leng

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