Upskilling helps one to stay relevant and engage in an ever-changing workforce environment.
For mums, whether you are a working or stay at home mum, upskilling can help make yourself more valuable, open doors to opportunities and even discover new passions.
How can the SkillsFuture help mums to upskill?
The SkillsFuture is a national movement to encourage individual ownership of skills enhancement and lifelong learning. All Singaporeans aged 25 and above would receive an initial sum of S$500 SkillsFuture credits to pay for training courses.
SkillsFuture: How to get started
Starting your learning journey is easy.
Simply search for relevant courses, decide and register directly with the training provider to enrol for the course. You may then submit a claim and attend the course.
To check your credit balance, you can log in to your account at with your Singpass. An amount of your available credit is reflected in ‘SkillsFuture credit’, where you can also submit a claim via the same tab. You can submit your claim for SkillsFuture Credit usage within 60 days before, and up to, the course start date.
Courses that you may claim with your SkillsFuture credit
There is a wide array of SkillsFuture courses you can explore in 2020.
Here are some interesting, fun and short courses sifted out from the thousands of courses that may interest busy mums.
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Grooming
Professional Image and Personal Grooming
Learn to groom and dress for both corporate and social settings. Through a series of activities, group discussions, role plays and demonstrations, this interactive course teaches you how to groom and dress for both corporate and social settings.
Fee: $290
Duration: 1 day (7.5 hours)
Eligible for claim period: 25 May 2018 to 13 May 2020
Academy: Dun & Bradstreet
Location: OUE Downtown 2
Floral Arrangement
Floral Arrangement & Design Fresh Bouquet & Preserved Floral Arrangement
Learn the techniques of creating a Bell Jar with preserved flowers and a hand tied bouquet with fresh flowers. The course includes helpful tips on how to choose and condition fresh flowers and the fundamental spiral technique used to create a bouquet.
You will also learn how to dry the flowers, treat and wire the preserved blooms together in a Bell Jar as a decorating piece, which will last up to one year.
Fee: $250
Duration: 1 day (7 hours)
Eligible for Claim Period: 06 Jul 2018 to 05 Apr 2020
Academy: Flueriste
Location: North Canal Road
Baking
Prestige Buttercream and petite pastries
This course aims to give participants knowledge of the current contemporary bakes happening in modern bakeries. The sharing of baking techniques and tips allows you to have a grasp of the baking industry. This is also aimed at aspiring bakers who are thinking of venturing into the Food and Beverage industry or home-based baking.
Fee: $250
Duration: 1 day (7.1 hours)
Eligible for claim period: 03 May 2019 to 02 May 2020
Academy: My Bake Studio
Location: Toa Payoh Central
Cooking
Guide to Cooking fish: 1 day Omega 3 (Salmon Variations)
Explore a wide variety of fish cooking methods and prepping techniques. You will learn to make salmon vegetable noodle soup, fusilli salmon, glazed salmon rice with teriyaki sauce, grilled salmon on a bed of mixed vegetable and the many variations of salmon.
Fee: $165
Duration: 1 day (7 hours)
Eligible for claim period: 22 Nov 2017 to 29 May 2020
Academy: Jia Lei Confectionery and Training Centre
Location: Queen Street
Sewing
Basic Sewing and Pattern Making: Kidswear (Girls)
Learn how to take accurate measurements and draft a set of customised basic pattern blocks for a top, skirt, sleeve and dress. Cover pattern manipulation techniques to create different types of skirts, dresses as well as different types of necklines and sleeves – these are all sweetly packed in this class.
Fee: $468
Duration: 8 days (20 hours)
Eligible for claim period: 05 Mar 2019 to 04 Mar 2020
Academy: Fashion Makerspace
Location: South Bridge Road
Parenting
SkillsFuture@PA Child Behaviour Management (infant and toddler)
Learn the principles of effective guidance and behaviour management. Identify positive ways to guide and manage young children’s behaviour with the appropriate approaches, skills in dealing with good and bad behaviour and the different parenting skills that affect behaviour issues.
Price: $130
Duration: 9 hours
Eligible for claim period: 01 Aug 2018 to 31 Dec 2021
Academy: Pasir Ris Elias Community Club
Location: Pasir Ris Drive 3
Questioning and Responding to Children’s Answers to Extend their Thinking
Understand the relationship between effective adult-child interactions and learning. Be equipped with the knowledge and skills of posing good questions and responding to children’s answers to scaffold their learning and extend thinking. Know the different effective questioning techniques and ways to encourage children to communicate their thoughts in cognitively challenging ways
Fee: $284
Nett fee*: $142
Duration: 2 days (10.5 hours)
Eligible for Claim Period: 01 Jan 2019 to 30 May 2020
Academy: ED.D consultancy
Location: Sommerville Park
Storytelling
Story Reading and Storytelling
Understand the use of reading aloud and storytelling in creating lifelong readers, as well as children’s development in the social and emotional realms. Learn how to choose suitable stories for different age groups, storytelling techniques and inspire participants to put in the preparation needed for effective story reading and storytelling.
Fee: $245
Nett fee*: $49
Duration: 2 days (14 hours)
Eligible for Claim Period: 01 Jan 2019 to 30 Jun 2020
Academy: Storywise
Location: Goodman Arts Centre
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*Nett fee means the training organisation will collect the unsubsidised portion of the course fees from you and claim the course fee funding from SSG directly.
Mark your calendar and take note of the dates for these SkillsFuture courses in 2020.
The SkillsFuture credit will not expire, you may wait for an appropriate time and course to claim it. Gaining new knowledge and acquiring new skills are some ways to enrich a learning journey.
