BCM Institute | WSQ

Skillsfuture Funding for WSQ [All] Programmes

Written by Suhana Sunreh | Oct 11, 2018 8:56:39 AM

The Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ) is a national credential system that trains, develops, assesses and certifies skills and competencies for the workforce. BCM Institute is an Approved Training Organisations (ATOs) offering Business Continuity Management (BCM), Crisis Management (CM) and Crisis Communication (CC).  WSQ supports the SkillsFuture movement to:

  • Promote recognition of skills and competencies to facilitate progression, mastery and mobility;
  • Promote holistic development of the workforce through technical and generic skills and competencies;
  • Support economic development by professionalising skills and competencies to drive industry transformation, productivity and innovation efforts; and
  • Encourage lifelong learning.

Training programmes developed under the WSQ system are based on skills and competencies validated by employers, unions and professional bodies. This process ensures existing and emerging skills and competencies that are in demand are used to inform training and development under WSQ. 

Price and training grant available for:

1) BCM-310 Assessing Risk and Business Impact Requirements

2) BCM-320 Developing Business Continuity Strategies and Plans

3) BCM-330 Testing and Exercising Business Continuity Plans

Course fee before any funding: SGD 800

Training grants available:

Criteria Course Fee

WTS Participants

(For Singaporeans who are 35 years old and above earning a monthly income of not more than SGD 2,000. 

Training grant amount: SGD 760

Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 40

Mid-Career enhanced subsidy (For Singaporeans who are 40 years and above)

 

or 

 

SME Companies

Training grant amount: SGD 560

Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 240

For Singaporeans who are 39 years and below

 

or 

 

Non - SME Companies

Training grant amount: SGD 400

Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 400

BCM Institute will be applying the training grant for self sponsored participants after registration has been made.

For company sponsored, do note that your company will have to apply for training grant in Skillsconnect before class start date.

 

4) BCM-470  Developing a BCM Training and Learning Roadmap 

Course fee before any funding: SGD 640

Training grants available:

Criteria Course Fee

WTS Participants

(For Singaporeans who are 35 years old and above earning a monthly income of not more than SGD 2,000. 

Training grant amount: SGD 608

Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 32

Mid-Career enhanced subsidy (For Singaporeans who are 40 years and above)

 

or 

 

SME Companies

Training grant amount: SGD 475

Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 165

For Singaporeans who are 39 years and below

 

or 

 

Non - SME Companies

Training grant amount: SGD 142.50

Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 497.50

 

5) CC-350 Implementing a Crisis Communication Plan

6) CC-450 Executing and Managing Crisis Communication Plan

7) CM-460 Executing and Managing Crisis Management Plan

Course fee before any funding: SGD1,280

Training grants available:

Criteria Course Fee

WTS Participants

(For Singaporeans who are 35 years old and above earning a monthly income of not more than SGD 2,000. 

Training grant amount: SGD 1,216

Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 64

Mid-Career enhanced subsidy (For Singaporeans who are 40 years and above)

 

or 

 

SME Companies

Training grant amount: SGD 900

Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 380

For Singaporeans who are 39 years and below

 

or 

 

Non - SME Companies

Training grant amount: SGD 270

Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 1,010

8) CM-360 Implementing Crisis Management Plan

Course fee before any funding: SGD1,920

Training grants available:

Criteria Course Fee

WTS Participants

(For Singaporeans who are 35 years old and above earning a monthly income of not more than SGD 2,000. 

Training grant amount: SGD 1,824

Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 96

Mid-Career enhanced subsidy (For Singaporeans who are 40 years and above)

 

or 

 

SME Companies

Training grant amount: SGD 1,300

Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 620

For Singaporeans who are 39 years and below

 

or 

 

Non - SME Companies

Training grant amount: SGD 390

Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 1,530

Frequently Asked Questions?

 

These are some of the questions often asked by potential participants with regards to competency-based training (with government funding from the Singapore government):

 

WSQ Course Offerings

         
Business Continuity Management
  WSQ-BCM-310 WSQ-BCM-320 WSQ-BCM-330 WSQ-BCM-470

Crisis Management

   
  WSQ-CM-360 WSQ-CM-460    
Crisis Communication    
  WSQ-CC-350 WSQ-CC-450    

Please feel free to send us a note if you have any of these questions to sales.ap@bcm-institute.org