HR & Education
MoM launches Singapore Opportunity Index to track employer outcomes
MoM launches Singapore Opportunity Index to track employer outcomes
It evaluates employers across five key outcomes: career progression, pay, hiring, retention, and gender parity.
Hyundai, NTU, A*STAR launch Singapore’s first auto Corporate Lab
The Corporate Lab aims to bridge academic research and industrial deployment.
Young workers cite team issues, low pay as top concerns
68% of employed youths are actively or passively open to new roles.
Singapore opens Asia’s first experiential carbon-literacy gallery
It aims to improve public understanding of carbon and its impact.
Singapore firms to ramp up overseas hiring as global teams expand
Nearly three-quarters of companies surveyed have grown their overseas teams in the past year.
Employers eye 4.3% average pay rise in 2026
This amongst the lowest in Southeast Asia.
42 SMEs complete CDL's decarbonisation programme
The programme aims to empower SMEs to adopt carbon accounting.
Singapore workers cite lack of mentorship as top career barrier
13% say they need to change employers to advance.
Aster endows $1.5m bursary to three universities to aid budding engineers
The initiative will offer bursaries to students from NTU, NUS, and SIT.
Singapore teachers work long hours but teach less: report
The survey also found that administrative workload stress skewed towards newer teachers in Singapore.
SIT and NVIDIA launch AI research centre at Punggol campus
The SNAIC also launched the SNAIC AI Programme in collaboration with IMDA under the TeSA initiative.
Nanofilm CEO’s son steps up as General Manager
He will oversee operations and support the company’s business plans.
Fatal workplace injury rate falls to 0.92 per 100,000 in H1
The drop was concentrated in larger sites, which saw injuries fall to 27 from 31.
SMU launches Urban SustaInnovator global accelerator
Startups accepted into USI will be assigned a Lead Mentor and benefit from N:1 advisory panels.
MoM, ILO convene first global dialogue on digital platform work
It aims to establish a trusted framework for digital platform employment.
7 in 10 prefer personal retirement plans over fixed age: survey
However, only 35% say they are prepared to achieve their ideal retirement.
Graduate hiring resilient, but most jobseeker support bids rejected
By June 2025, the employment rate for the 2024 cohort had climbed to 88%.
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