The Singapore Workforce Development Agency and Council for Private Education was restructured to form SSG on 3 October 2016.

The CPE is supported by a team of staff from SSG to regulate the sector, provide student services, consumer education and facilitate capability development efforts to uplift standards in the local private education industry.

The regulatory initiative continues to comprise the mandatory Enhanced Registration Framework[1] (ERF) which sets out the basic standards that a Private Education Institution (PEI) would need to adhere to in order to operate.

[2] Employers, organisations and individuals are to discrete the various school qualifications for recognition and acceptance purposes.

The Act also provided for the establishment of the Committee for Private Education (CPE) to oversee a new regulatory function.