新加坡人力部：補習費津貼通過各種計劃服務了近9萬名社群成員

2024年3月6日，新加坡人力部兼國防部進階政務部長紮吉哈關于補習費津貼的發言。以下内容為新加坡眼根據國會英文資料翻譯整理：

人力部兼國防部進階政務部長紮吉哈先生：

主席，過去十年裡，我們的馬來/穆斯林社群在教育領域取得了巨大的進步。社群人才庫的增長為我們提供了堅實的基礎，讓我們能夠回饋和支援彼此，成為一個成功的社群。

補習費津貼在提升社群的教育和職業發展方面發揮了重要作用。我們通過三個方面實作這一目标：首先，強化教育作為進步的基礎；其次，激發社群的活力和貢獻能力；第三，培養未來的社群上司者。

去年，補習費津貼通過各種計劃服務了近9萬名社群成員。

一個重要部分是支援孩子和年輕人在教育階段的成長。我們通過調動人才和激發社群活力來實作這一目标。

沙禮爾先生問到有關補習費津貼的标志性項目，比如KMM和MTS計劃的進展。

我很高興地分享，KMM計劃在2022年到2023年期間報名人數增長了74%。2023年，有1700名兒童和1500名父母參與了該計劃。父母的參與在KMM計劃中起到了關鍵作用，確定他們能自信地支援孩子的學習。KMM計劃擴大得益于明确的宣傳和合作夥伴的推薦，如家庭服務中心、新加坡社會及家庭發展部以及M3@Towns。更多的KMM指導員加入了該計劃，他們的數量從2022年的50人增加到2023年的140多人。

KMM的一位指導員費紹爾是新加坡國立大學的三年級學生，他在2020年服兵役期間開始了志願服務。這促使他選擇攻讀心理學學位并追求社會服務領域的職業，繼續為社群做出貢獻。

MTS計劃是我們的教育基石，2023年國小和中學學生的報名人數在過去五年間增長了15%，超過了9,000名學生。今天，MTS學生在100個實體和虛拟中心獲得支援。補習費津貼不斷改進MTS的課程，新增科目比如生物學和附加數學。

閥米先生問到我們如何鼓勵和激勵更多人站出來服務，特别是那些受益并取得成功的人。

補習費津貼提供了許多平台，讓大家貢獻自己的技能和熱情，滿足社群需求。比如，我們的MTS導師在MTS計劃的發展過程中起到了關鍵作用。Anggreini Hamid女士在中學時期從MTS中受益，如今她是一名學校教師，并擔任MTS導師長達18年。她采用創新教學方法，提升課程的吸引力和效果。值得一提的是，我們三人——部長馬善高先生、我和拉哈尤瑪贊女士——都曾在生命中的某個時刻擔任過MTS導師，為社群貢獻力量。

在中等和高等教育階段，補習費津貼的一些倡議，如青年輔導辦公室，幫助學生發揮潛力。衛生部進階政務次長拉哈尤瑪贊女士會在她的講話中分享更多關于這些努力的資訊。

除了堅實的教育基礎外，我們的成功社群還需要一個能夠獲得好工作和有意義職業的勞動力。我們希望賦予我們的勞工權利，讓他們能壯大我們的社群和國家。

閥米先生和沙禮爾先生問到我們如何更好地支援馬來/穆斯林專業人士和勞工适應未來的經濟。補習費津貼繼續幫助我們的勞動力發展他們的職業和專業網絡，補充政府、雇主和工會的國家努力。

補習費津貼啟動了專業網絡計劃，以支援馬來/穆斯林專業人士在擴大他們的網絡時貢獻回饋社群，交流想法；并幫助年輕勞工進入增長型行業。到目前為止，補習費津貼在護理、綠色和數字領域建立了九個專業網絡；計劃今年在醫療保健和媒體等領域建立四個新的網絡。截至2023年，我們在這些網絡中擁有450多名馬來/穆斯林專業人士，補習費津貼将繼續鼓勵更多專業人士加入并擔任導師。

在專業網絡和其他領域，我們現在有大約1,000名馬來/穆斯林專業人士參與了補習費津貼的倡議——無論是擔任KMM指導員、MTS導師、青年導師還是作為演講者或人類圖書館。

主席，在之前的預算辯論中，我分享了公司如何與補習費津貼合作，為學生提供獎學金，支援他們進入生物醫學、金融、航空和技術等領域。今年，我很高興地宣布，美光半導體将為理工學院的工程學生提供三年的獎學金，并為中學和高等教育學生提供實習和學習機會。

我們感謝公司為學生提供其他形式的支援，例如指導。超過50名MSD制藥公司的員工，包括資料科學家，以及人工智能和網絡安全領域的人員，已經通過#amPowered@ITE計劃報名擔任120名工藝教育學院學生的導師。

随着我們的經濟和勞動力不斷發展，補習費津貼将繼續支援我們的馬來/穆斯林勞動力在職業轉換中導航并抓住未來的機會。通過M3專注領域FA4關于就業和就業能力，補習費津貼采用社群為基礎的戰略，與M3合作夥伴合作，包括新加坡全國職工總會。超過5,000名馬來/穆斯林勞工從補習費津貼的關懷顧問那裡得到了幫助，包括在求職和職業相關需求上提供支援。

對希望在職業休息後重返職場的女性，補習費津貼的“女性職場計劃”（MENDAKI’s Women at Work，W@W）為她們提供相關技能，并将她們與就業機會聯系起來。2023年，補習費津貼将超過140名W@W計劃的參與者介紹給NTUC的e2i進行職業指導和求職援助，其中近60人成功獲得了工作機會。

其中一位是西提女士（Siti Raudah），在丈夫被裁員後，她正在尋找一份工作來支援她的家庭和三個在讀書的孩子。西提女士去年9月加入了W@W計劃，她受益于面試技巧和更廣泛的社會和專業網絡機會。今年早些時候，她在石油和天然氣行業找到了一份行政助理的工作，她表示該計劃幫助她重新融入職場。

主席，現在我将繼續用馬來語發言。

（用馬來語）我們第三個政策是培養和發展不僅為社群服務，而且為國家服務的上司者。

娜蒂雅女士詢問了有關Tunas計劃的最新情況。

補習費津貼在2022年啟動了Tunas Bersama M3計劃，旨在培養下一代馬來/穆斯林組織的上司者。

這個為期18個月的計劃不僅為新興上司者提供知識、技能和網絡，讓他們為自己的組織做出貢獻并上司組織。事實上，我們希望支援他們在未來在更廣泛的社群中承擔更重要的上司角色。

Tunas計劃的參與者之一是賽義德哈倫醫生，他是我們年輕的MMO上司者之一。

參與者可以在管理、行政、籌款、溝通和變革管理等領域發展能力，并有機會得到經驗豐富的進階上司者的指導。

第一批來自不同MMOs的13名Tunas參與者将在四月完成他們的計劃。

這些參與者能夠應用他們獲得的知識和技能在M3專注領域中開展七個社群項目。

例如，通過“夢想繼續”項目，Tunas參與者與補習費津貼專業網絡的專業人士合作。目标是為15至17歲的馬來/穆斯林年輕人提供特定領域的工作影子機會。這将幫助年輕人獲得經驗，擴大他們在未來就業機會方面的視野。

年輕的參與者表示，這次經曆幫助他們獲得了信心，接觸到了各種各樣的經驗，擴大了他們的興趣範圍，并有助于更好地規劃他們未來的學習和職業計劃。

在這個計劃取得的積極成果的基礎上，我們将在今年四月迎接第二批Tunas參與者，并擴大其項目範圍。

主席，我在講話中指出了過去一年我們社群的進展，感謝廣大志願者的努力。

我們的社群是多元化和有彈性的，在共同努力和分享價值觀和知識方面取得了進步。我們繼續為社群的進步努力，確定教育和職業發展機會的獲得。我們還将繼續確定我們的社群在就業和專業領域取得進步，為個人和社群帶來成功。

以下是英文質詢内容：

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.

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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