Education
Courses, certifications, and upskilling programmes.
SCS launches AI skills pathway as IMDA targets legal sector fluency
Singapore Computer Society launched an AI Bilingual Pathway for non-tech professionals while IMDA introduced legal sector AI fluency programmes, reflecting the shift from training engineers to building AI literacy across every profession.
15,000 Sign Up for ISCA AI Training Programme in Two Months
More than 15,000 accountants and finance professionals have enrolled in ISCA's AI Fluency Programme within two months, putting it a quarter of the way toward its 60,000 target. The initiative is now expanding to ASEAN and India with Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese versions in development.
Closing the gap between Singapore's enthusiastic AI use and its lingering workplace anxiety
Singapore's numbers on AI adoption look enviable on paper. Roughly 89 per cent of professionals here now use the technology at work, a figure that routinely puts the city-state ahead of its regional peers. Yet those same workers are markedly less convinced the technology is good for their careers...
Google Gives Singapore Students a Free Year of AI Plus, Tying Its Pitch to the Back-to-School Rush
Singapore students heading back for the new academic year now have one more AI tool in their bag — and it does not cost them a cent. Google is rolling out a global back-to-school promotion that gives eligible tertiary students a year of Google AI Plus for free, a move that lands at a moment when how...
IMDA Opens Nearly 2,000 Tech Roles for Fresh Grads and Career-Switchers in Expanded Training Push
Singapore's manpower crunch in technology is sharpening even as AI reshapes what those jobs actually demand. Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo chose the Singapore Computer Society's Tech3 Forum on Aug 20 to argue that Singapore should not compete with AI on raw output, but on the...
IMDA backs legal-sector AI training as Singapore courts cut prep time 90%
Legal work is among the most document-heavy and precedent-driven of professions, which makes it a natural early proving ground for generative AI. Singapore's push to weave AI into skilled professional work now extends deep into the legal sector, with two new training programmes designed to carry the...
SCS launches employer-led AI pathway to fix the gap between courses and jobs
Singapore's AI training market has become a crowded field, with global cloud providers, local universities and specialist academies all offering certifications. For a working professional, the harder question is no longer what to learn, but which course employers actually value and recognise.
Singapore's Universities Flip From Policing AI to Teaching It as Jobs Demand AI Literacy
For years, the debate in Singapore's lecture halls was about catching students who used AI to cut corners. Now the country's universities have changed tack — not just tolerating the technology but weaving it into how they teach, on the theory that the graduates who land the best jobs will be the ones who use...
NUS Unveils AI Sense Maker, a Research Discovery Tool Built on 150,000 Digitised Sources
Singapore's universities have spent years racing to weave generative AI into the classroom, but the harder problem has always been the very first step of any serious research project: figuring out what to read. NUS's AI Sense Maker, launching 20 August, attacks that gap directly.
NTU to stop using 'fundamentally unreliable' AI detector from 2027
NTU is ditching its institutional AI detector. The university told faculty on Aug 13 that it will deactivate the tool by the end of this semester — Dec 31 — and stop using it entirely from 2027, describing automated detection as "fundamentally unreliable" and lacking "empirical validity."
Fresh Tech Grads Fear AI Has Raised the Entry Bar — Employers Are Demanding Proof
The entry-level pipeline that used to launch software careers in Singapore is being compressed, and fresh tech graduates feel it. A YouthTechSG survey of 246 tertiary students found 83.3 per cent want help with technical skills development and problem-solving — the strongest demand signal in the study — as...
From Naval Engineering to AI: Singapore's Defence Scholarships Double Down on Tech Talent
When Singapore hands out defence scholarships, it is usually reading the room for where the next decade of threats will come from. At this year's Defence Scholarship Award Ceremony at the Temasek Club, the message was unmistakable: the armed forces want people who can do AI as much as people who can command...