新加坡人力部：补习费津贴通过各种计划服务了近9万名社区成员

人力部兼国防部高级政务部长扎吉哈先生：

主席，过去十年里，我们的马来/穆斯林社区在教育领域取得了巨大的进步。社区人才库的增长为我们提供了坚实的基础，让我们能够回馈和支持彼此，成为一个成功的社区。

补习费津贴在提升社区的教育和职业发展方面发挥了重要作用。我们通过三个方面实现这一目标：首先，强化教育作为进步的基础；其次，激发社区的活力和贡献能力；第三，培养未来的社区领导者。

去年，补习费津贴通过各种计划服务了近9万名社区成员。

一个重要部分是支持孩子和年轻人在教育阶段的成长。我们通过调动人才和激发社区活力来实现这一目标。

沙礼尔先生问到有关补习费津贴的标志性项目，比如KMM和MTS计划的进展。

我很高兴地分享，KMM计划在2022年到2023年期间报名人数增长了74%。2023年，有1700名儿童和1500名父母参与了该计划。父母的参与在KMM计划中起到了关键作用，确保他们能自信地支持孩子的学习。KMM计划扩大得益于明确的宣传和合作伙伴的推荐，如家庭服务中心、新加坡社会及家庭发展部以及M3@Towns。更多的KMM指导员加入了该计划，他们的数量从2022年的50人增加到2023年的140多人。

KMM的一位指导员费绍尔是新加坡国立大学的三年级学生，他在2020年服兵役期间开始了志愿服务。这促使他选择攻读心理学学位并追求社会服务领域的职业，继续为社区做出贡献。

MTS计划是我们的教育基石，2023年小学和中学学生的报名人数在过去五年间增长了15%，超过了9,000名学生。今天，MTS学生在100个实体和虚拟中心获得支持。补习费津贴不断改进MTS的课程，新增科目比如生物学和附加数学。

阀米先生问到我们如何鼓励和激励更多人站出来服务，特别是那些受益并取得成功的人。

补习费津贴提供了许多平台，让大家贡献自己的技能和热情，满足社区需求。比如，我们的MTS导师在MTS计划的发展过程中起到了关键作用。Anggreini Hamid女士在中学时期从MTS中受益，如今她是一名学校教师，并担任MTS导师长达18年。她采用创新教学方法，提升课程的吸引力和效果。值得一提的是，我们三人——部长马善高先生、我和拉哈尤玛赞女士——都曾在生命中的某个时刻担任过MTS导师，为社区贡献力量。

在中等和高等教育阶段，补习费津贴的一些倡议，如青年辅导办公室，帮助学生发挥潜力。卫生部高级政务次长拉哈尤玛赞女士会在她的讲话中分享更多关于这些努力的信息。

除了坚实的教育基础外，我们的成功社区还需要一个能够获得好工作和有意义职业的劳动力。我们希望赋予我们的工人权利，让他们能壮大我们的社区和国家。

阀米先生和沙礼尔先生问到我们如何更好地支持马来/穆斯林专业人士和工人适应未来的经济。补习费津贴继续帮助我们的劳动力发展他们的职业和专业网络，补充政府、雇主和工会的国家努力。

补习费津贴启动了专业网络计划，以支持马来/穆斯林专业人士在扩大他们的网络时贡献回馈社区，交流想法；并帮助年轻工人进入增长型行业。到目前为止，补习费津贴在护理、绿色和数字领域建立了九个专业网络；计划今年在医疗保健和媒体等领域建立四个新的网络。截至2023年，我们在这些网络中拥有450多名马来/穆斯林专业人士，补习费津贴将继续鼓励更多专业人士加入并担任导师。

在专业网络和其他领域，我们现在有大约1,000名马来/穆斯林专业人士参与了补习费津贴的倡议——无论是担任KMM指导员、MTS导师、青年导师还是作为演讲者或人类图书馆。

主席，在之前的预算辩论中，我分享了公司如何与补习费津贴合作，为学生提供奖学金，支持他们进入生物医学、金融、航空和技术等领域。今年，我很高兴地宣布，美光半导体将为理工学院的工程学生提供三年的奖学金，并为中学和高等教育学生提供实习和学习机会。

我们感谢公司为学生提供其他形式的支持，例如指导。超过50名MSD制药公司的员工，包括数据科学家，以及人工智能和网络安全领域的人员，已经通过#amPowered@ITE计划报名担任120名工艺教育学院学生的导师。

随着我们的经济和劳动力不断发展，补习费津贴将继续支持我们的马来/穆斯林劳动力在职业转换中导航并抓住未来的机会。通过M3专注领域FA4关于就业和就业能力，补习费津贴采用社区为基础的战略，与M3合作伙伴合作，包括新加坡全国职工总会。超过5,000名马来/穆斯林工人从补习费津贴的关怀顾问那里得到了帮助，包括在求职和职业相关需求上提供支持。

对希望在职业休息后重返职场的女性，补习费津贴的“女性职场计划”（MENDAKI's Women at Work，W@W）为她们提供相关技能，并将她们与就业机会联系起来。2023年，补习费津贴将超过140名W@W计划的参与者介绍给NTUC的e2i进行职业指导和求职援助，其中近60人成功获得了工作机会。

其中一位是西提女士（Siti Raudah），在丈夫被裁员后，她正在寻找一份工作来支持她的家庭和三个在读书的孩子。西提女士去年9月加入了W@W计划，她受益于面试技巧和更广泛的社会和专业网络机会。今年早些时候，她在石油和天然气行业找到了一份行政助理的工作，她表示该计划帮助她重新融入职场。

主席，现在我将继续用马来语发言。

（用马来语）我们第三个策略是培养和发展不仅为社区服务，而且为国家服务的领导者。

娜蒂雅女士询问了有关Tunas计划的最新情况。

补习费津贴在2022年启动了Tunas Bersama M3计划，旨在培养下一代马来/穆斯林组织的领导者。

这个为期18个月的计划不仅为新兴领导者提供知识、技能和网络，让他们为自己的组织做出贡献并领导组织。事实上，我们希望支持他们在未来在更广泛的社区中承担更重要的领导角色。

Tunas计划的参与者之一是赛义德哈伦医生，他是我们年轻的MMO领导者之一。

参与者可以在管理、行政、筹款、沟通和变革管理等领域发展能力，并有机会得到经验丰富的高级领导者的指导。

第一批来自不同MMOs的13名Tunas参与者将在四月完成他们的计划。

这些参与者能够应用他们获得的知识和技能在M3专注领域中开展七个社区项目。

例如，通过“梦想继续”项目，Tunas参与者与补习费津贴专业网络的专业人士合作。目标是为15至17岁的马来/穆斯林年轻人提供特定领域的工作影子机会。这将帮助年轻人获得经验，扩大他们在未来就业机会方面的视野。

年轻的参与者表示，这次经历帮助他们获得了信心，接触到了各种各样的经验，扩大了他们的兴趣范围，并有助于更好地规划他们未来的学习和职业计划。

在这个计划取得的积极成果的基础上，我们将在今年四月迎接第二批Tunas参与者，并扩大其项目范围。

主席，我在讲话中指出了过去一年我们社区的进展，感谢广大志愿者的努力。

我们的社区是多元化和有弹性的，在共同努力和分享价值观和知识方面取得了进步。我们继续为社区的进步努力，确保教育和职业发展机会的获得。我们还将继续确保我们的社区在就业和专业领域取得进步，为个人和社区带来成功。

The Chairman: Senior Minister of State Zaqy Mohamad.

The Senior Minister of State for Defence and Manpower (Mr Zaqy Mohamad): Chairman, our Malay/Muslim community has made significant progress in the last decade, especially in education. As the community's talent pool strengthens, it provides strong foundations for our community to contribute back and support one another as a Community of Success.  

MENDAKI has played a key role in improving the education and professional development outcomes in our community. We do so in three ways: first, to strengthen education as a pillar for progress; two, empowering our community to thrive and contribute; and three, grooming the community leadership for the future.  

Last year, MENDAKI engaged and supported close to 90,000 members of the community through its various programmes and schemes.

One of MENDAKI's key pillars is to provide support for our children and youth at all stages of their education. To achieve this, one of our main approaches is to mobilise talents and energise the community. 

 Mr Sharael Taha asked about the progress of MENDAKI's signature programmes, like KMM and the MTS. 

 I am happy to share that our KMM programme for preschoolers saw a 74% increase in its enrolment between 2022 and 2023, with 1,700 children and 1,500 parents enrolled in the programme in 2023. Parental involvement has been an important part of KMM, to ensure that parents are empowered and confident to support their children's learning. KMM's scale-up was possible with the help of targeted outreach and referrals by partners, such as Family Service Centres (FSCs), Social Service Agencies (SSAs) as well as M3@Towns. More KMM facilitators have also come on board, with their number tripling from about 50 in 2022 to more than 140 in 2023.

One KMM facilitator is Mr Irfan bin Ibrahim, a Year 3 student at the National University of Singapore (NUS), who started volunteering when he was serving his National Service in 2020. Volunteering shaped his decision to take up a degree in psychology and pursue a career in the social services sector to continue contributing to the community. 

 The MTS continues to be the backbone of our educational programmes and enrolment for primary and secondary school students has increased by 15% over the past five years, to over 9,000 students in 2023. Today, MTS students are supported by 100 physical and virtual centres. MENDAKI has also continually sought to improve MTS offerings – such as by expanding its subjects offered to include Biology and Additional Mathematics.  

 Mr Fahmi Aliman has also asked how we could encourage and inspire more people to step forward and serve, especially those who have benefited and done well.

MENDAKI has many platforms for the community to contribute their skills and passion to meet the community needs. An example is how our steadfast MTS tutors have played an integral role in how MTS has grown from strength to strength. One such tutor is Ms Anggreini Hamid, who benefited from MTS during her secondary school days. Now a schoolteacher herself, she has been contributing back as an MTS tutor for the past 18 years. She adopts innovative techniques to make her classes more engaging and effective for her students. Just a tidbit, both — actually, all three of us – Minister Masagos, myself and Mdm Rahayu – have all been MTS tutors at some point of our lives too. So, we have done our volunteer duty at some point to contribute back to our community.  

 At the post-secondary and tertiary level, MENDAKI's initiatives, such as the Youth Mentoring Office, help students realise their potential. Senior Parliamentary Secretary Rahayu will share more on these efforts in her speech.  

Beyond a strong educational foundation, our Community of Success also needs a workforce that can secure good jobs and meaningful careers. We want to empower our workers to thrive so that they can grow our community and our nation.  

 Mr Fahmi Aliman and Mr Sharael Taha asked about our plans to better support Malay/Muslim professionals and workers in the future economy. MENDAKI continues to help our workforce develop their careers and professional networks, complementing national efforts by our tripartite partners in Government, employers and the Labour Movement.  

 MENDAKI initiated the Professional Networks to support Malay/Muslim professionals in growing their networks; to contribute back to the community; to exchange ideas; and to help younger workers enter growth industries. To date, MENDAKI has formed nine Professional Networks covering various industries in the Care, Green and Digital sectors; and plan to form four more new networks in areas such as Healthcare and Media this year. We now have more than 450 Malay/Muslim professionals in these networks as at 2023 and MENDAKI will continue to encourage more professionals to join and serve as mentors. To Mr Sharael Taha's question, within both the Professional Networks and beyond, we now have about 1,000 Malay/Muslim professionals contributing across MENDAKI's initiatives – whether it is serving as KMM facilitators, MTS tutors, youth mentors or as speakers or human libraries. 

 Chairman, in previous Committee of Supply debates, I shared about how corporate partners have partnered MENDAKI to provide scholarships for students to enter different industries from biomedical to finance, to aviation and technology. From this year, I am happy to announce that Micron Semiconductor will come on board to provide scholarships over three years to engineering students in polytechnics, as well as internships and learning activities for secondary and tertiary students. 

 We appreciate how companies also provide other forms of support, such as mentoring, to our students. More than 50 MSD Pharmaceutical staff, such as data scientists, and those from the AI and Cybersecurity sectors, have signed up as mentors to 120 ITE students through the #amPowered@ITE programme.  

 So, as our economy and workforce evolves, MENDAKI will continue to support our Malay/Muslim workforce in navigating career transitions and seizing future opportunities. Through the M3 Focus Area 4 (FA4) on Employment and Employability, MENDAKI employs a community-based strategy by collaborating with M3 partners, including the NTUC. More than 5,000 Malay/Muslim workers have benefited, including receiving support from MENDAKI's Care Advisors on their job search and career-related needs.

For women who wish to return to the workforce after a career break, MENDAKI's Women at Work (W@W) programme equips them with the relevant skills and connecting them with job opportunities. In 2023, MENDAKI referred over 140 participants from W@W to NTUC's e2i for career coaching and job assistance, with close to 60 successfully securing job offers.

One of them is Ms Siti Raudah, who was looking for a job to support her family and her three school-going children, after her husband was retrenched. Ms Siti joined the W@W programme in September last year, where she benefited from support, such as interview techniques and access to broader social and professional networks. Earlier this year, Ms Siti found a job as an administrative executive in the oil and gas industry and shared that the programme has helped her to transit back into the workforce. Chairman, in Malay, please. 

(In Malay): Our third strategy is to grow and develop leaders not only for our community, but for our country as well.

Ms Nadia Samdin asked for an update on the Tunas programme. 

MENDAKI started the Tunas Bersama M3 programme in 2022 to nurture the next generation of leaders of Malay/Muslim Organisations (MMOs).

This 18-month programme not only equips emerging leaders with the knowledge, skills and networks to contribute and lead their own organisations. In fact, we want to support them in taking on larger leadership roles in our wider community in the future.

One of the Tunas participants is NMP Dr Syed Harun, who ranks among our young MMO leaders today.

For example, participants get to develop competencies in the areas of management, administration, fund raising, communications and change management, as well as the opportunity to be mentored by experienced senior leaders.

Our first cohort of 13 Tunas participants from various MMOs will complete their programme in April.

The participants were able to apply the knowledge and skills that they gained to carry out seven community projects across the M3 Focus Areas.

For example, through Project Dream On, Tunas participants worked with professionals from MENDAKI's Professional Networks. Their objective was to provide opportunities to Malay/Muslim youths, aged 15 to 17 years old, with sector-specific job shadowing opportunities. This will help the youths to gain experience and expand their horizons in terms of future job opportunities.

The youth participants shared that this experience helped them gain confidence, exposed them to a variety of experiences and expand their range of interests, and help to better shape their future field of study and career plans.

Building on the positive outcomes of this programme, we will welcome our second batch of Tunas participants in April this year. That cohort will include leaders from MENDAKI's Professional Networks.

Mr Chairman, MENDAKI will continue to support our Malay/Muslim community in reaching greater heights and empower the community to be active, contributing citizens.

However, each individual has a part to play to ensure that our community continue to progress together.

I strongly encourage our Malay/Muslim workers to take up the opportunities to upskill through the initiatives that were recently announced during Budget 2024.

For instance, mid-career workers aged 40 and above who are looking at reskilling can consider the SkillsFuture Level-Up Programme. This programme offers a SkillsFuture Credit top-up of $4,000 that can be used for selected courses.

Workers who wish to take on full-time diplomas at the polytechnics, ITE and arts institutions can also make use of the enhanced subsidies from the Government.

To offset income loss for workers who have to take time off work for training, the Government will also provide a monthly SkillsFuture Mid-Career Training Allowance, capped at $3,000 per month, for up to 24 months.

ITE graduates can also benefit through the ITE Progression Award of $5,000 upon enrolment to a diploma programme, and receive another $10,000 when they complete their studies.

I am confident that as a community, we can strengthen the culture of contributing. And in partnership with the Government and other community organisations, we can ensure our community achieve greater heights in education, professional development and leadership.

(In English): Our third strategy is to grow and develop leaders not only for our community, but for our country as well. 

Ms Nadia Ahmad Samdin asked for an update on the Tunas programme.

MENDAKI started the Tunas Bersama M3 programme in 2022 to nurture the next generation of leaders of Malay/Muslim Organisations (MMOs). This 18-month programme not only equips emerging leaders with the knowledge, skills and networks to contribute and lead their own organisations, in fact we want to support them in taking on larger leadership roles in our wider community in the future.

Among them NMP Syed Harun and he is among the youngest leader.

For example, participants get develop their competencies in the areas of governance, fund raising, communications, and change management, as well as the opportunity to be mentored by experienced senior leaders. 

Our first cohort of 13 Tunas participants from various MMOs will complete their programme in April. Particpants were able to apply their knowledge and skills that they gain to run seven community projects across the M3 Focus Areas.  

For example, through Project Dream On, Tunas participants worked with professionals from MENDAKI's Professional Networks. Their objective was to provide opportunities to Muslim youths aged 15 to 17 with sector-specific job shadowing. This will help the youths to gain experience and expand their horizons in terms of future job opportunities.  

Youth participants shared that this experience helped them grow as individuals, expose them to a variety of experiences and expand their range of interests, and help to better shape their future field of study and career plans.  

Building on the positive outcomes of this programme, we will welcome our second batch of Tunas participants in April this year, and this cohort will include leaders from MENDAKI's Professional Networks.  

Mr Chairman, MENDAKI will continue to support our Malay/Muslim community in reaching greater heights and empower the community to be active, contributing citizens.  

However, each individual has a part to play to ensure that our community continue to progress together.  

I strongly encourage our Malay/Muslim workers to take up the opportunities to upskill through the initiatives that were recently announced during Budget 2024. For instance, mid-career workers aged 40 and above who are looking at reskilling can consider the SkillsFuture Level-Up Programme. This programme offers a SkillsFuture Credit top-up of $4,000 that can be used for selected courses. Workers who wish to take on full-time diploma at the polytechnics, ITE and arts institutions can also make use of the enhanced subsides by the Government. To offset income loss for workers who have to take time off work for training, the Government will also provide a monthly SkillsFuture Mid-Career Training Allowance, capped at $3,000 per month, for up to 24 months.  

ITE graduates can also benefit through the ITE Progression Award of $5,000 upon enrolment to a diploma programme and receive another $10,000 when they complete their studies. 

I am confident that as a community, we can strengthen the culture of contributing, and in partnership with the Government and other community organisations, we can ensure our community achieve greater heights in education, professional development, and community leadership.

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