SkillsFuture credits can be used for 30,000 new online courses

Starting from Aug 28, Singaporeans can access more than 30,000 new courses on two online learning platforms using their Skills Future credits.

- Gabrielle Chan

Learners can offset a 12-month subscription fee on Coursera and Udemy Business to get access to courses on topics such as data science, business management and artificial intelligence (AI).

The Coursera subscription gives access to more than 7,700 courses, 2,500 guided projects tutorials for new skills - and 130 professional certificates, while Udemy's subscription will give access to 27,000 online courses.

Singaporeans aged 25 and above can offset the subscription fees for the two platforms by using the Skills Future opening credit of $500 and the one-off top-up of $500 given in 2020 via the MySkillsFuture portal.

Singaporean learners can start enrolling for courses offered by Coursera from Aug 28 to Sept 25, as enrolment opens up every quarter.

Registration and purchase options of the Coursera subscription are available at any time, and there is no limit on how many people can register and enrol for courses.

The Straits Times has contacted Udemy for further information on the enrolment in its courses.

Coursera has more than a million Singapore-based learners, said its managing director for Asia-Pacific Raghav Gupta, with the company seeing record enrolment in generative AI (GenAI) courses in 2024.

"(The ability to use SkillsFuture credits) will hopefully complement that adoption we have seen in Singapore," he added.