The Skills Redevelopment Programme was inaugurated in December 1996 as a joint setup by the National Trade Union Congress (NTUC) and the Economic Development Board (EDB). NTUC took over as the main SRP Programme Manager in 1998.
Today, the Skills Redevelopment Programme stands as a national funding incentive programme that helps employers to send their employees for certifiable training by providing attractive incentives such as course fees, absentee payroll and wage support.
The programme targets at company- sponsored workers particularly the lower skilled and matured workers as well as the unemployed and retrenched workers via the Surrogate Employer Scheme.
The latter category of workers also has the choice of participating in the STEER programme. Skills Training and Employability Enhancement for the Retrenched and unemployed workers (STEER) is an extension of the SRP for retrenched and unemployed workers,which links full-time SRP training to job placement.
The SRP programme has seen increasing participation from employers, workers and course providers. This is reflected by increasing training places which have surpassed the target of 100,000 training places by May 2003, set by the Prime Minister of Singapore.
To date, the SRP programme supports more than 1,400 certifiable course modules targeted at more than 30 industries. Click here to find out more about the Skills Redevelopment Programme.
