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Funding and Subsidies

  1. SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) Funding

Full Fee

Singaporeans and Permanent Residents

Singaporeans qualified for SkillsFuture Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy

Singaporeans and Permanent Residents qualified for Enhanced Training Support for SMEs*

Singaporeans qualified for Workfare Training Support (WTS)**

    1. Funding for employers

SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) provides funding [Skills Development Fund (SDF), absentee payroll, etc]. Please visit SSG website https://www.skillsconnect.gov.sg to check out the list of courses approved for funding support by SSG.

    1. SkillsFuture Credit
  1. Fee Discounts

Ngee Ann Polytechnic provides fee discounts to our alumni and staff. Click here for details of these discounts.

  1.  NTUC Education and Training Fund @ SkillsFuture for Digital Workplace (NETF@SFDW)

The NTUC-Education and Training Fund (NETF) is set up to help our working people in skills-upgrading and reskilling. At present, NTUC union members are able to enjoy training subsidies under the following NETF programmes:

1. Union Training Assistance Programme (UTAP)

2. UTAP for Online/Blended Courses by Institutes of Higher Learning

3. UTAP Development Series

4. SkillsFuture for Digital Workplace (SFDW) 2-Day Foundation Module Click here for the FAQ on NETF.

  1. Maritime Cluster Fund (MCF) Training Grant (Applicable only for Maritime Automation Systems course)

The qualifying criteria for the MCF Training Grant are:

  • Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
  • Employees sponsored by maritime business entities/organisations registered or incorporated in Singapore. They must not be receiving any other form of financial assistance from another government body for the same programme
  • Self-sponsored individuals may apply
  • Successfully complete the programme and awarded with certification

Please refer to www.mpa.gov.sg/mcf for information. To apply for the MCF Training Grant, please download the application form from: https://www.mpa.gov.sg/web/wcm/connect/www/e0ebc392-ac0f-46ad-b204- b4ea3e669123/appn_form_cert_courses+Mar+17.pdf?MOD=AJPERES

For more information on the MCF Training Grant, please write to mcf@mpa.gov.sg.

  1. National Silver Academy funding 50% before GST
  1. (SkillsFuture Credit & ETSS)

All Singaporeans aged 25 years and above can make use of SkillsFuture Credit to pay for course fees.

*WTS (Workfare Training Scheme) is for Singapore citizens who are 35 years old and above and not earning more than $2,000 per month. You may refer to the WSG website for more details on the qualifying criteria and application procedure

^Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) is defined as

  1. at least 30% local shareholding; AND
  2. Group1 annual sales turnover2 of not more than $100 million OR Group employment size3 of not more than 200 employees
  1. Group tracing: All corporate shareholder(s) holding more than 50% of total shareholding of the company and any subsequent corporate parents. All subsidiaries of the company.
  2. Annual sales turnover refers to the revenue or sales turnover stated on the company’s income statement.
  3. A company should include in its employment size any persons employed under a contract of service in accordance to the Employment Act. This is regardless of the nationality of the employee.

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS) subsidy is only applicable to Singaporean and Permanent Residents with full-fee company sponsorship.

Change of Citizenship

Students who have officially informed NP of their Singapore citizenship or Permanent Resident status before the commencement of each semester will have their fees adjusted and refunded for that semester. However, for those who inform NP officially their Singapore citizenship or Permanent Resident status after the commencement of the semester, the fees will be adjusted to the rate of Singapore citizen or Permanent Resident with effect from the next semester. No refund will be made for the difference in fees already paid in the current semester.

  1. SSG Funding

Full Fee

Singaporeans and Permanent Residents

Singaporeans qualified for SkillsFuture Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy

Singaporeans and Permanent Residents qualified for Enhanced Training Support for SMEs*

Singaporeans qualified for Workfare Training Support (WTS)**