The Workforce Development Agency will be launching a programme for the aspiring Singaporean chefs. Chef Eric Teo the winner at the World Gourmet Summit will be one of the trainers in this project under the name CRAFT (Creating Talent Through Apprenticeship and Full-Time Training). The 15-24 months course has the provision of registering students at SHATEC and the At-Sunrice training school, funding up to 80 percent of the course fee along with an allowance during the course period.
As per Dr Ng Eng Hen, Manpower Minister:
WDA is working with the Culinary Institutes and they will be apprentices under our top chefs and…over time, we hope that they will be master chefs. We hope to produce 500 chefs a year and this will boost up the industry, because we think that Singapore can be the kitchen of Asia.
This step taken by the WDA is to assure that there is growth in the food and beverage sector by recruiting more number of skilled chefs in the sector. It is a good step taken by the WDA to give a boost to the profitable food and beverage sector and also an initiative taken by the Government to hone the culinary skills of the aspiring chefs.
