Training

Type of issue: skills training and costs

5 12, 2013

Sri Lankan and Filipino construction workers coming soon

webmaster2019-08-30T16:34:14+08:00December 5th, 2013|News, News Flash|

The Straits Times reported, 22 August 2013, that Singapore is looking to Sri Lanka and the Philippines as regular sources of construction workers. "The first 20 Sri Lankan construction workers who were trained at a Building and Construction Authority (BCA) approved training centre in Colombo will arrive in Singapore next Friday, bringing some relief to

22 09, 2013

Training centres in Bangladesh have become money-minting machines

alex2019-08-30T16:34:18+08:00September 22nd, 2013|Articles, Facts, research, analysis|

It started as a way to ensure that migrant workers coming to Singapore had some basic skills, but the raison d'etre has since become something else: to extract as much money as possible from the poor. "It" is the tangled business of providing training, testing and recruitment in Bangladesh. The key to its metamorphosis is

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