What is different about education & training in Singapore
Private schools, language centres and training providers must register with the Committee for Private Education (CPE) under SkillsFuture Singapore, and corporate training providers additionally track whether a course is SkillsFuture Credit-eligible, since that eligibility directly affects a corporate buyer's willingness to enrol staff. Mainstream K-12 schools instead fall under the Ministry of Education and rarely appear as CRM-driven sales leads, so a pipeline built for this category should assume private and corporate training buyers, not MOE schools, as the primary contact type.
Enquiries come through education fairs, agent referrals and online course portals rather than WhatsApp-led conversations. Course invoices carry a GST number at 9%, and SkillsFuture-funded courses need separate funding-claim documentation tracked alongside the standard invoice. Student data handling follows PDPA, with additional consent needed for enquiries from minors handled through a parent or guardian. Enrolment activity dips around Chinese New Year and again in the November-December school holiday period, both worth building into follow-up cadence timing.
Set up your CRM for Singapore education & training teams
- Record each course's CPE registration and SkillsFuture Credit eligibility on the offer record.
- Add a funding-claim documentation stage for every SkillsFuture-subsidised course enrolment processed.
- Route enquiries from minors through a parent-or-guardian consent field before contact.
