SSTC Institute has been awarded the 4-year EduTrust Certification by the Committee for Private Education (CPE).

Valid from 8 May 2021 – 7 May 2025

This award is given to PEIs who have achieved satisfactory to commendable performance in key areas of management and the provision of educational services.

What is EduTrust?

EduTrust is a voluntary certification scheme for private education institutions (PEIs) in Singapore. A private education institution is awarded EduTrust certification if it has achieved the stipulated standards in the areas of:

• Management of the school
• Provision of educational services
• Financial health

For more information, visit the CPE website here.

Who Administers the Edutrust?

The EduTrust certification scheme is administered by the Committee for Private Education (CPE), a statutory board that was formed in 2009 to regulate, develop and raise quality standards in the private education sector.

For more information, visit the CPE website here.

Is Edutrust certification mandatory for all private education institutions?

The EduTrust certification scheme is voluntary but private education institutions which enrol international students must be EduTrust-certified. This is to meet one of the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority’s prerequisites for the issue of Student Passes.

For more information, visit the CPE website here.

What is ERF?

The Enhanced Registration Framework (ERF), as set out under the Private Education Act and the Private Education Regulations, spells out the mandatory registration requirements and legislative obligations which all private education institutions operating in and from Singapore must meet.

It is administered by the Committee for Private Education, which is the sectoral regulator overseeing the private education sector, as established under the Private Education Act.

For more information, visit the CPE website here.

Who Administers the ERF?

The Enhanced Registration Framework aims to enhance the overall quality of private education institutions in Singapore and ensure that they are of a certain acceptable standard in order to protect the interests of the students enrolled in their schools. It does this through measures to enhance the following aspects of the Enhanced Registration Framework:

• Registration
• Corporate Governance
• Quality of Provisions
• Information Transparency

For more information, visit the CPE website here.

Last updated 8 September 2021