Singapore Tightens Training Subsidies as Economic Pressures Mount

SkillsFuture funding reforms signal a strategic pivot toward industry-led upskilling—but at what cost to smaller providers and self-funded learners? On a humid afternoon in December, Melissa Tan sat in her Jurong West training center watching enrollment numbers tick downward on her computer screen. After fourteen years running a mid-sized vocational training provider, she had weathered…