Singapore has a uniquely integrated system of planning. The Manpower ministry works with various economic
agencies (such as the Economic Development Board) responsible for promoting specific industry groups to identify
critical manpower needs and project demands for future skills. These are then fed back both into pre-employment
training and continuing education and training. In other countries, labour and education markets make these
adjustments slowly over time, but the Singapore government believes that its manpower planning approach helps
students to move faster into growing sectors, reduces oversupply in areas of declining demand more quickly, and
targets public funds more efficiently for post-secondary education. The ministry of Education and the institutions
of higher and post-secondary education then use these skill projections to inform their own education planning,
especially for universities, polytechnics and technical institutes.