10 SkillsFuture courses to redeem before your credits expire in 2025

According to The Straits Times, as of June 2025, about 70 per cent of Singaporeans eligible for the $500 SkillsFuture Credit top-up, which expires on 31 December, still haven’t used it. Translation: a lot of people are leaving free money in their SingPass. 

Whether that means picking up a new skill, dabbling in a side passion, or just becoming slightly more interesting at dinner parties, the opportunity’s there. All you need to do is tell a training provider you’re using your SkillsFuture Credit and submit your claim on MySkillsFuture within 60 days before your course starts.

What are SkillsFuture credits?

Launched in 2015, SkillsFuture was our country’s way of nudging us toward lifelong learning — or at least toward picking up a hobby that doesn’t involve Netflix. All Singaporeans aged 25 and above receive a $500 opening credit that never expires. If you’re 40 and above, you get a bonus $4,000 “mid-career” credit, disbursed quarterly. 

And in case you missed the fine print: the government also gave a one-off $500 top-up in 2020, but those extra credits vanish at the stroke of midnight come 31 December 2025. New citizens don’t get left out either. Once you hit 25, your SkillsFuture account is topped up with $500, and if you’re 40 or older, that additional $4,000 will follow on schedule.

Who is eligible to claim SkillsFuture credits?

Generally, all Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above are eligible for an opening SkillsFuture credit of $500. Permanent residents don’t get this credit, but they’re not left entirely out of the game: they can still tap into SkillsFuture initiatives like the Career Transition Programme. Permanent residents are also eligible for course fee subsidies of up to 70% on approved SkillsFuture Singapore courses, which means that while the credits may be off-limits, the discounts still make upskilling more affordable.

How to claim SkillsFuture credits?

At the point of registration on the SkillsFuture website, let your training provider know you’re using your credits, then file the claim within 60 days before the course start date. Full or partial, it’s your choice, but just don’t be the person who realises too late they sat on this opportunity.

So, if you’ve been procrastinating, here are 10 SkillsFuture courses that might just give your everyday routine a rewrite.

10 popular SkillsFuture courses to redeem

For floral arrangement and nature crafts: Floral Harmony – Integrating Nature into Daily Life

Seven hours of flower arranging might sound like something aunties would do, but this course is about learning how to make supermarkets floral look like it belongs in a five-star lobby. You’ll pick up tricks for using household tools, everyday objects, and natural elements to create arrangements, aka, the kind of luxury that actually lasts longer than a strawberry matcha latte.

Full Course Fee: $280
What You Pay: Nothing

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For hobbyists and beginners: Ceramics (Level 1)

This 24-hour workshop at NAFA is the crash course every would-be potter wishes they took before impulse-ordering a wheel off Shopee. From pinching, coiling, hollowing, and glazing, you’ll cover the foundations while learning to think about space, structure and texture in a way that makes even lopsided bowls you create feel intentional. The point isn’t perfection, because it’s that you’ll finish with ceramics you designed yourself, rough edges and all.

Full Course Fee: $792
What You Pay: $292 or nothing if you have not claimed any prior SkillsFuture Opening Credits

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For aspiring home stylists or career designers: Residential Interior Design – Design for Interiors

This eight-hour sprint won’t turn you into Kelly Wearstler, but it will at least give you the vocabulary to stop calling everything “a vibe.” You’ll learn the basics of residential design from themes, concepts, and the kind of terminology that helps you hold your own in conversations about “light flow” and “visual language.” Think of it as design Duolingo: you won’t be fluent overnight, but you’ll know how to speak to your future interior designer or be one.

Full Course Fee: $1,100 ($300 after subsidies)
What You Pay: Nothing

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For fashion and DIY enthusiasts: Draping & Sewing for Fashion Design –Top, Skirt and Pants

If your idea of DIY fashion is still safety-pinning a hem, this course will fully drag you into the 21st century. Across 36 hours, you’ll learn how to drape, draft patterns, and sew everything from skirts to jackets without cursing at a tangled bobbin. By the end, you won’t just have pieces that look runway-adjacent, you’ll also understand why good tailoring makes TikTok’s “I made this myself” creators so smug.

Full Course Fee: $960
What You Pay: $460 or nothing if you have not claimed any prior SkillsFuture Opening Credits

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For plant lovers and DIY hobbyists: Closed Forest Terrarium Making

Terrariums are the houseplants for people who forget to water said houseplants. This four-hour workshop teaches you how to build a sealed little ecosystem, from layered soil to curated greenery, all living happily inside a bottle. Once it’s done, it practically looks after itself (TLDR: photosynthesis and the water cycle), meaning you get credit for being nurturing without the guilt of another dead fern.

Full Course Fee: $130
What You Pay: Nothing

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For creative makers: Candle Making – Learn to Create Scented and Decorative Candles

Over three sessions, you’ll learn to pour, scent, and decorate candles that are either Pinterest-worthy or borderline eccentric, depending on your personal aesthetic. The syllabus runs from soy wax to paraffin, and you’ll try everything from pressed-flower glass holders to a cupcake-shaped monstrosity you’ll either love or re-gift. Either way, you’ll never have to panic-buy a last-minute candle again.

Full Course Fee: $130
What You Pay: Nothing

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For professionals seeking wellness tools: Manage Stress and Cultivate Resilience in the Workplace

Stress at the workplace is inevitable, but the way you metabolise it can make or break your work week. This nine-hour programme mixes theory with practice: like identifying triggers, measuring your own levels, and trying tools like breathing, mindfulness, and mindset shifts. The aim isn’t to erase stress entirely (good luck with that!) but to build resilience so that you can handle setbacks without unravelling.

Full Course Fee: $405 ($202.05 after subsidies)
What You Pay: Nothing

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For innovators and problem-solvers: Creative Idea Generation and Selection Techniques

If “let’s brainstorm!” Or “we need to seek synergy!” makes you roll your eyes, this 16-hour workshop is a palette cleanser. Instead of Post-its and doodles, you’ll test out methods like Reverse Brainstorming and Devil’s Advocacy to push ideas past the obvious. The end goal? To become the person in the room who can frame, stress-test, and sell an idea with enough clarity that it actually gets used.

Full Course Fee: $800 ($400 after subsidies)
What You Pay: Nothing

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For aspiring entrepreneurs: Create a Dynamic Website with E-Commerce

No one should be creating a clunky e-commerce website, and more importantly, no one wants to shop on one. This 20-plus hour crash course teaches you to build sites that are fast, responsive, and crucially, surprise, surprise, shoppable. From design tweaks to payment gateways, SEO to inventory tracking, it covers the full stack so you can launch a site that looks less like a $5 template and more like a brand.

Full Course Fee: $960 ($480 after subsidies)
What You Pay: Nothing

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For professionals looking to future-proof: Critical Thinking Skills in a Changing Tech World

AI can spit out text and probability timelines, but it can’t do your thinking for you (…unless?). This 14-hour course is about sharpening the human side of the equation: how to question outputs, spotting biases from the start, and deciding what’s signal versus noise. Through scenarios and frameworks, you’ll learn to apply critical thinking to AI-driven data, so that your decisions stay strategic instead of reactive.

Full Course Fee: $1,050 ($525 after subsidies)
What You Pay: $25 or nothing if you have not claimed any prior SkillsFuture Opening Credits

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