All SIT graduates to get transcript of transferable skills

Move to go beyond academic grades will document students' mastery of 18 skills

- Elisha Tushara

From 2025, all students from the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) will be awarded a transcript of skills, alongside their academic transcripts, when they graduate.

In a move to go beyond academic grades, the transcript – known as Record of Transferable Skills (RTS) – will document students' mastery of 18 transferable skills such as problem-solving, creative thinking and adaptability.

Drawn from the SkillsFuture list of critical core skills, the 18 skills are also aligned with the World Economic Forum's top 10 in-demand skills from its Future of Jobs 2023 report.

For a start, in October 2024, the transcript will be awarded to SIT graduates from two programmes – digital communications and integrated media, and nursing. From 2025, it will be awarded to all graduating students.

The transcript will categorise the skills according to the student's level of mastery – emerging, proficient and highly proficient.

In 2023, the Singapore Management University had similarly announced that it would award transcripts of co-curricular activities and skills learnt to graduates from 2025. The aim is to deepen and document students' learning outside the classroom.