The Workforce Development Agency (WDA) has said that its Earn and Learn scheme is making progress. WDA Chief executive Ng Cher Pong stated recently that the scheme is “on track”, with about 150 trainees across eight sector-specific programmes including infocomm technology, logistics and food manufacturing.

The Earn and Learn scheme is managed under the national SkillsFuture initiative to arm workers with deeper skills.

“We hope to increase the number of Earn and Learn programmes to even more sectors and expand the number of placements,” Mr Ng said.

“We’ve been reaching out … to companies and the response has been fairly positive. This is new to the companies as well, some of them require a bit of hand-holding on how to set up internal structures.”