ABSTRACT
This chapter briefly introduces Singapore’s skills strategy, known as ‘SkillsFuture’, and sheds light on how education and training systems around the world have helped to shape this skills strategy. With globalisation and technological innovation and disruption abound, broad shifts in the education and training landscape have driven the need for Singapore to recalibrate itself to remain competitive. Beyond the government, stakeholders, including employers, individuals, education and training providers, are required to work together to define and shape the skills ecosystem. Together, stakeholders can contribute towards the rebalancing between academic and vocational pathways, learning at school and the workplace, front-loading learning and spreading out learning throughout life and learning technical skills and transversal skills to create a successful national skills strategy.
