More Than 1 in 2 Eligible Singaporeans Aged 30-75 Utilised SkillsFuture Credit as the SkillsFuture Movement Marked its 10th Anniversary

2025 also saw a significant number of 606,000¹ (555,000 in 2024) individuals, and 23,000 (24,000 in 2024) enterprises, participating in SSG-supported training.

Learning Demand Boosted by Credit Expiry

The increase in the number of learners in 2025 was boosted by the expiry of the one-off SkillsFuture Credit top-up on 31 December 2025. More users utilised their SkillsFuture Credit in December 2025, compared to the monthly average across January to November in 2025. 

For 2025, the most popular training areas amongst SkillsFuture Credit users were Information & Communications, Food & Beverages, and Security & Investigation. Learners used their credits for a wide range of courses, including online learning subscriptions such as Coursera, to shorter courses for “bite-sized” upgrading.

Notwithstanding the surge in demand, the training sector has been able to maintain quality, as measured by learner validation. 73% of respondents agreed to a large or very large extent that their SSG-supported training improved work performance, as compared with 69% in 2024. Additionally, 67% of respondents attributed advancements in their careers to their courses, as compared with 64% in 2024. Over 82% (84% in 2024) of the surveyed participants also confirmed that the learning and insights gained were transferable to their work.

Shift Towards Substantive Training

More mid-career individuals are taking up training in courses with direct impact on employability outcomes. 123,000 (112,000 in 2024) individuals took up such courses, including Full-Qualification programmes, stackable courses offered by Institutes of Higher Learning, SkillsFuture Career Transition Programmes (SCTPs), and courses in support of the Progressive Wage Model. This trend was reinforced by the introduction of the SkillsFuture Mid-Career Training Allowance in 2025, where 5,300 recipients received the allowance for eligible full-time long-form training.

From March 2026, the Training Allowance will be extended to eligible part-time training programmes. This will benefit individuals who may prefer to continue working while pursuing long-form training.

SCTPs are programmes designed to aid mid-career transition through a skills top-up and job placement facilitation. Of the 15,000 learners who completed their SCTP between June 2022 and June 2025, 51% found new roles or employment within 6 months of SCTP completion (as of 31 December 2025).

Fewer employers sent workers for SSG-supported training, amidst economic volatility

23,000 employers (24,000 in 2024) sent their workers for SSG-supported training in 2025, benefitting about 247,000 (241,000 in 2024) individuals.

The dip in employer participation could be due to businesses adopting a more conservative approach due to economic and geopolitical uncertainties. This is as reflected in the latest Singapore Business Federation’s National Business Survey, released in November 2025, which indicated that overall business confidence, measured by the Business Sentiment Index, had continued to decline from 55.4 in Q2 2025 to 52.2 in Q3 2025. Similarly, SSG observed a drop in employer-supported training demand in the latter half of 2025, reflecting persistent cautiousness among businesses amidst ongoing global economic uncertainties.

SSG has taken steps to spur employer training participation, which is needed to keep training relevant to job and business needs. To this end, we have recently tightened course approval and course renewal requirements, to ensure that training providers actively engage employers to shape and design high-quality and relevant training for their workers. We encourage employers to engage actively in shaping training programmes and investing in workforce development.

Continued Commitment to Skills Development

SSG CE Mr Tan Kok Yam said: “We thank our training partners for their excellent work, in holding up training quality amid the surge in demand. There remains room for us to do better. To our learners, now that many of you have been moved by the Credit expiry to engage in the SkillsFuture system, SSG will deepen our engagement with you, improve how we provide information on courses and ease the processes to enrol and train. We seek your partnership to choose wisely the training that aids your job and career health, to engage meaningfully in the training, and to enrich the learning experiences of your course-mates. To employers, our message is that training becomes more critical, not less, in an environment of technological disruption and uncertainty. The depth and breadth of workers’ skillsets will enable businesses to pivot and adapt quickly. We thank our Queen Bee companies for recognising this, and taking the lead in building up our workforce nationally. The next decade of SkillsFuture will be even better, with training partners, workers and employers fully committed.”

¹SSG-supported training refers to training for which course fee grants are subsidised or certifications issued by SSG, independent of whether the individual had utilised SkillsFuture Credit for the course.