Singapore Budget 2018: Singapore to pilot Capability Transfer Programme
TO plug the gap in skills sets in certain important fields, the Singapore government will pilot the Capability Transfer Programme (CTP), Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said in Parliament on Monday.
The CTP will support the transfer of skills from foreign specialists to Singaporean trainers and trainees, he said in his Budget 2018 speech. The Minister of Manpower will give more details at the upcoming Committee of Supply debate in Parliament, Mr Heng added.
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