Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament
Mr Mohd Fahmi Bin Aliman, Marine Parade GRC
Question
To ask the Minister for Education in view of the difficulty faced by some mature and elderly workers under the Progressive Wage Model (PWM) in accessing their past training records using SingPass, whether there are plans to develop a training records gateway such as an online portal whereby companies' HR personnel can electronically retrieve their employees' training records that show their Statement of Attainment of WSQ modules to facilitate checks on whether the employees meet the training requirements of the various PWMs.
Response
1. Under the Progressive Wage Model (PWM), workers can move up along career pathways with wage-skill progression alongside productivity improvements. Most of the training courses for PWM come under the WSQ framework. Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents can log into their My SkillsFuture portal using SingPass to download their WSQ e-Certs. To assist our mature and elderly workers, SSG has also worked with all WSQ training providers to provide their trainees with assistance in downloading or printing their WSQ e-Certs.
2. Employers and HR personnel can also access and authenticate employees' or job applicants' WSQ e-Certs through the Enterprise Portal for Jobs & Skills. SSG will explore ways to further simplify and enhance employers' access to their employees' WSQ training records.
3. Beyond WSQ certifications, there is value in making records on training and skills attainment more easily accessible, so that individuals, together with their employers, can chart their skills progression in tandem with their career development. Today there is already a "Skills Passport" on the MySkillsFuture portal that records past achievements. SSG will build on the MySkillsFuture portal, to develop a "journey planner" with signposting on curated courses from institutes of higher learning and other training providers, that informs individuals' decisions on lifelong learning and career planning.