CITREP: Improve your skills, enhance your employability
The Critical Infocomm Technology Resource Programme (CITREP) enables
professionals to update and upgrade themselves in the dynamic, competitive and
fast changing infocomm industry.
Sponsoring organizations and sponsored individuals are able to seek for
Enhanced CITREP funding support when they attend endorsed infocomm training
courses and certifications.
The
programme supports course and examination fee for training courses and
certifications in the following skill areas which are part of the National
Infocomm Competency Framework (“NICF”):
- Infocomm Security
- Interactive Digital Media
- IT Services
- Network and Communications
- Project Management
- Software and Applications
- Telecommunications
Programme Support
- Interactive Digital Media
Trainees
who wish to seek funding support from the Enhanced CITREP must submit their
online claim applications to IDA via ICMS upon course or certification
completion. Upon successful submission of online applications, the applicants
must submit the supporting documents to IDA. Please refer to the Claim Application Guide
for detailed application procedures.
Who Can Apply?
Infocomm, non-infocomm professionals and supporting organisations.
Benefits of CITREP
Applicants
can expect CITREP funding support for
- Course and Certification
Fees – Up to 80% of nett payable course and examination fees, capped at $3,000
per trainee.
- Certification Fees only –
Up to 80% of nett payable examination fees, capped at $500 per trainee.
Sponsoring
Organisations are eligible for Absentee Payroll support at $50 per trainee per
day when they sponsor their staff for full time training*.
* Full time training refers to courses conducted on weekdays, i.e. Mondays to
Fridays, between 8.30am and 6pm, with a minimum duration of 6 training hours.
Programme Coverage
To
be eligible for funding support under the Enhanced CITREP, a trainee must:
- Be a Singapore Citizen or
Singapore Permanent Resident.
- Meet the admission
criteria set by the Course Provider or Certificate Awarding Body.
- Commence all training
courses or certification examinations between 1 April 2009 and 31 March 2011
(or otherwise stipulated by IDA).
- Be enrolled by the
endorsed course providers or testing centres for their intended courses or
certifications in the ICMS system before the commencement of the training
courses or certifications.
For
Organisation-Sponsored Trainees:
- The sponsoring
organisation must be incorporated or registered in Singapore.
- Employees of Local
Government Agencies are not eligible. However, employees of these
organisations can qualify for CITREP under the self-sponsored category.
Service Commitment
For Course and Certification Fees Support,
- The trainee must
complete the course and pass all examinations required by the
certification or post-training assessment within 12 months from the course
commencement date:
- with at least 75% attendance of the training course based on the
endorsed roadmap; and
- achieve the final certification status (applicable to certifiable
programme only).
For
Certification Fee Support,
- The trainee must pass
all examinations required by the certification within 12 months from the
commencement date of the first examination.
All
claims for CITREP disbursement must be submitted to IDA within three (3) months
from completion date of the last examination or final post-training assessment.
Late
submissions will not be accepted. Applications with
incomplete supporting documents will be rejected for processing.
Eligibility Criteria
The trainee must:
- Be a Singapore Citizen or Singapore Permanent Resident.
- Meet the admission criteria set by the Course Provider or Certificate Awarding Body ("CAB").
- Commence all training courses or certification examinations between 1 April 2009 and 31 March 2011 (or otherwise stipulated by IDA).
- Be enrolled by the endorsed course providers or testing centres for their intended courses or certifications before commencement.
Application Procedure
All
course endorsement and claim applications must be submitted online via the
online system known as Infocomm Competency Management System (ICMS). Upon
successful submission of online applications, the applicants must submit the
supporting documents to IDA.
To access ICMS, please click here.
The
sponsoring organisations and self-sponsored individuals must have a valid ICMS
account to submit a CITREP claim. To apply for a new organisation or individual
account, please click here.
All applicants must have their SingPass ID and password to access ICMS. To find out more and/or apply for SingPass, please click here.
For Enquiries
For
general enquiries, email ida_citrep@ida.gov.sg
or contact:
CITREP
Administrator
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
8 Temasek Boulevard
#14-00 Suntec Tower Three
Singapore 038988
Tel: (65) 6324 8737 (63-CITREP)
Fax: (65) 6211 2207
Useful Links
Click
here for more information on
the CITREP.
Click
here for more details on NICF.