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WSQ certificates moved to OpenCerts in July 2024. Here is what you get for a WSQ course, where to download it, and how modules stack into a full qualification.
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WSQ courses are a quick way to pick up an employable skill. They are modular, they are eligible for SkillsFuture funding, and they leave you with a certificate that employers here recognise.
What has changed is how that certificate reaches you. Paper certificates went first, then the e-Certificate was retired in 2024. Here is how WSQ certification works today.
The Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ) system is Singapore's national credential framework for training, assessing and certifying workforce skills.
WSQ-accredited courses are aligned to the Skills Frameworks, which set out what a job role actually requires — so the training maps to work rather than to theory.
The system is administered by the Skills and Workforce Development Agency (SWDA), the statutory board formed on 1 July 2026 from the merger of SkillsFuture Singapore and Workforce Singapore. Older guides call it SSG; it is the same body.
WSQ rests on four ideas:
Relevance. Competency-based, built around the skills a role needs, including the critical core skills that carry across roles.
Open access. No academic prerequisites. Learning is modular, and each module completed earns a Statement of Attainment that can be stacked towards a full qualification.
Progression. Clear routes from one level to the next, aligned to the Skills Framework for your sector.
Authority. Statements of Attainment and qualifications are quality-assured and conferred by the national agency, sometimes with an awarding body.
Complete a WSQ module and be assessed competent, and you receive a Statement of Attainment (SOA). Complete enough of them in the right combination and they stack into a full WSQ qualification.
Since 1 July 2024, both are issued as OpenCerts digital certificates. The older WSQ e-Certificate was discontinued on 30 June 2024 and is no longer issued.
An OpenCerts certificate is tamper-evident and can be verified by anyone you send it to at opencerts.io — which is what makes it worth attaching to a job application rather than simply claiming the course on your CV.
Your certificates live in the Careers & Skills Passport on MySkillsFuture, which is also where your skills, qualifications and licences are recorded.
For Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents
1. Go to MySkillsFuture and log in with Singpass.
2. Open your Careers & Skills Passport.
3. Find the Statement of Attainment or qualification you want and click the download icon next to it.
4. You are taken to opencerts.io, where the certificate can be viewed, downloaded and printed.
For foreigners
The same route applies, but you log in with the Portal ID issued to you instead of Singpass. If you have never been issued one, use the 'No Portal ID' option on the login page and enter your details to retrieve your certificates.
Certificates usually appear once your training provider has submitted your assessment results, which takes a short while after the course ends rather than being instant.
Since 1 January 2023, a full WSQ qualification can only be conferred through a training provider approved to deliver that qualification programme.
You stack Statements of Attainment earned with the same provider towards it. A provider may recognise SOAs earned elsewhere under the prevailing rules on recognition of prior learning, but that is at their discretion — so if a full qualification is your goal, it is worth choosing a provider before you start rather than collecting modules at random.
WSQ courses are subsidised, and the subsidy is substantial: Singapore Citizens and PRs typically pay a fraction of the full fee, with those aged 40 and above eligible for more.
You can put your SkillsFuture Credit towards the balance, and NTUC members can claim half of what is left through UTAP.
Our funding page works this out for any Hustle course — enter your status and it shows the fee you actually pay.
A WSQ certificate is a compact way to show an employer that a skill has been assessed rather than merely claimed — and with funding applied, the course behind it usually costs less than people expect.
Browse our WSQ courses, or ask us through the chat on this page if you want to know which one leads where.
Find the course that matches what you want to learn next.