Wage gaps across professions will be narrowed, and ITE graduates will get skills upgrading help early in their careers. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – The wage gap between skilled tradesmen and knowledge-based workers will be narrowed through structured training and career planning, while Institute of Technical Education graduates will get help to upgrade their skills early in their careers.
Examples of workers who stand to gain from the wage boost are plumbers, electricians and those working in the healthcare and aged care sectors. The support for ITE graduates comes amid widening gaps in starting salaries between these graduates and those from polytechnics and autonomous universities.These salary gaps can be narrowed over time if ITE graduates upgrade and refresh their skills, such as through getting a diploma or even more qualifications in their working years. Skills upgrading improves career prospects and salaries, and it is a case of the earlier, the better, the report noted.
Workers will also receive a “further, substantial top-up” of the SkillsFuture Credit, the report said. Local talent aspiring to top regional or global roles will also receive more support in pursuing the needed overseas exposure for such roles before returning home. Mr Shaifulazli Ghazali, 45, a training instructor at ST Engineering, welcomed the additional support for ITE graduates and skilled tradesmen.
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