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CaseTrust For Education

CaseTrust for Education is compulsory certification for private education organisations (PEOs) that wish to enrol international students.

Lead Agency Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB)
Administered By Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE)
Supported By • SPRING Singapore
• Singapore Tourism Board (STB)
• Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA)
Launch Date 1 September 2005


Aims

  1. To raise student protection and welfare practices and standards of PEOs in Singapore.

  2. To instil confidence in international students and their parents.

  3. CaseTrust for Education is part of the Education Excellence Framework which aims to raise the academic, organisational, and student protection and welfare standards of PEOs in Singapore.

For who?

  • Singapore-based Private Education Organisations (PEOs) that wish to enrol international students.

  • Your organisation is a PEO if you are any one of the following:

    • an education provider outside Singapore’s public school system
    • a foreign-system school
    • an EDB-promoted private institution

  • PEOs can be:

    • privately-funded
    • operated as commercial/not-for-profit enterprises

  • CaseTrust for Education is open to both PEOs that must register and those that do not need to register with the Ministry of Education (MOE).

For what?

  • To ensure PEOs have high student protection and welfare standards by making it compulsory for PEOs to obtain CaseTrust for Education certification before PEOs can enrol international students.

  • To obtain CaseTrust for Education, you must implement student protection and welfare standards. Details can be found in the CaseTrust for Education Information and Application Kit (PDF).

  • You also need to pay the following fees for CaseTrust for Education certification:

    Type Of Fees Small PEO: 
    Sales Turnover
    (Less Than S$1M)
    Medium PEO: 
    Sales Turnover
    (S$1M - S$15M)
    Large PEO: 
    Sales Turnover
    (More Than S$15M)
    Application Fee S$120 S$120 S$120
    Assessment Fees