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Written by Suhana Sunreh | Dec 11, 2018 2:37:45 PM

The Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ) is a national credential system that trains, develops, assesses and certifies skills and competencies for the workforce. This funding is applicable to Singapore citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents (PR).

BCM Institute

is an Approved Training Organisations (ATOs) by SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) 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. The two crisis management competency-based training course offered are appended below. Click icon for the course description.

WSQ-CM-360		WSQ-CM-460
Implementing Crisis Management Plan		Executing and Managing Crisis Management Plan

Price and Training Grant Available

Course fee for WSQ-CM-360 and WSQ-CM-460 before any funding is SGD 1,920 and SGD 1,280 respectively. Appended below are the training grants and the payable course fees according to the criteria.

Funding Table for WSQ-CM-360

Training Grant	Criteria	Course Fee (payable after funding)
Workfare Training Support (WTS) Scheme	For Singaporeans who are 35 years old and above earning a monthly income of not more than SGD 2,000.	Training grant amount: SGD 1,378 Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 542
Small-Medium Enterprise (SME)	Singapore Citizen	Training grant amount: SGD 1,300 Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 620
Non - SME	Singapore Citizen (Below 39 year of age)	Training grant amount: SGD 390 Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 1,530
Non - SME	Singapore Citizen (Above 40 year of age)	Training grant amount: SGD 1,300 Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 620
Singapore PR	Regardless of company	Training grant amount: SGD 390 Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 1,530

Funding Table for WSQ-CM-460

Training Grant	Criteria	Course Fee (payable after funding)
Workfare Training Support (WTS) Scheme	For Singaporeans who are 35 years old and above earning a monthly income of not more than SGD 2,000.	Training grant amount: SGD 954 Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 326
Small-Medium Enterprise (SME)	Singapore Citizen	Training grant amount: SGD 900 Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 380
Non - SME	Singapore Citizen (Below 39 year old)	Training grant amount: SGD 270 Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 1,010
Non - SME	Singapore Citizen (Above 40 year old)	Training grant amount: SGD 900 Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 380
Singapore PR	Regardless of company	Training grant amount: SGD 270 Course fee payable after training grant approval: SGD 1,010

SkillsFuture Credit

All Singaporeans aged 25 and above received an opening credit of S$500 from January 2016. Only self - sponsored applicants can use the SkillsFuture credits to pay for or offset course fees. More information can be found here: www.skillsfuture.sg/credit

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):

What is Certification and Competency-based Courses?
Can I see a Comparison Between Crisis Management Intermediate Level Competency and Certification Courses?
Should I attempt the WSQ CM course or BCM Institute's Certification courses?
Can I have this course conducted in-house for all of my unit-level coordinators?

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

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