About SPUR
SPUR or Skills Programme for Upgrading and Resilience, is an enhanced financial support scheme developed by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) in consultation with tripartite partners, Ministry of Manpower (MOM), National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and the Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF). Leveraging on the extensive CET training system built over the years to scale up training programmes, SPUR brings together the full range of skills upgrading programmes with enhanced financial support that companies and workers can tap on over the next two years.
SPUR For Employers
SPUR encourages companies affected by declining business to retain workers by sending them for training, as opposed to retrenching them. This will help employers to save on manpower costs, better manage their excess manpower during the downturn and at the same time, upgrade their workers to strengthen business competitiveness for the upturn.
Note: Employers have to pay course fees via cheque or GIRO in order to claim absentee payroll of their employees.
SPUR For Workers
SPUR aims to redeploy unemployed workers as well as help in-employment workers to up-skill for new and better jobs. Employed and unemployed workers no longer need to wait for their employers to send them for training, as they can now sign up for training at CET Centres directly.
Skills Upgrading Pathways
List of Skills Upgrading Pathways under SPUR
| Sector | Target Occupations | Relevant Training Programmes |
|---|
| Infocomm | IT Project Manager | NICF SOAs |
List of courses under SPUR funding
- NICF - Business Process Reengineering
- NICF - Certified Enterprise Architecture Practitioner Programme
- NICF - Certification in IT Project Management (CITPM) Preparatory Course
- NICF - Certification in Outsourcing Management for IT (COMIT) Preparatory Course
- NICF - Essential Leadership Skills for Project Managers
- NICF - ITIL v3 Foundation for IT Service Management
- NICF - IT Outsourcing Management for Practitioners
- NICF - Object Oriented Analysis & Design
- NICF - Project Management for Information Systems
- NICF - Requirements Engineering
- NICF - Service-Oriented Architecture Essentials
- NICF - Strategic IT Planning
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