QEDUCATION
Companies in this section provide instruction and training across all academic levels and subject matters in Singapore.
The spectrum spans early childhood education and preschools, primary and secondary schools, junior colleges, polytechnics, autonomous universities, and international schools.
Private educational enrichment covers MOE-registered tuition centres, music and language academies, corporate executive training, and vocational skills development programmes.
Commonly Registered Businesses
Key SSIC 2025 ActivitiesMost frequent business registrations, commercial entities and popular sub-classes in Section Q:
Pre-primary education; child care services
Early childhood preschools, kindergartens and infant care development centres
Primary education
Primary school educational institutions and elementary instruction facilities
Secondary schools
General secondary education institutions, integrated programmes and high schools
Universities and tertiary degree-granting institutions
Autonomous and private universities providing undergraduate and postgraduate degrees
Commercial schools offering higher education programmes
Private educational institutes offering diploma and degree pathway certifications
Official SingStat Definition & Scope
This section includes education at any level or for any profession. The instructions may be oral or written and may be provided by radio, television, Internet or via correspondence.
Education activities are those having an educational programme, a time frame and some evaluation of the knowledge achieved.
It includes formal initial education at its different levels provided by the different institutions in the regular school system designed for students as a continuous educational pathway before their first entrance to the labour market, as well as formal education outside the regular school system with programme content and qualifications that are equivalent to those of such initial education (adult education, literacy programmes etc). Also included are activities provided by prison schools at their respective levels.
This section includes compulsory and non-compulsory schooling and public as well as private education.
For each level of education, the classes include special education for persons with disabilities.
Groups 851, 852, 853 and 854 take into account the formal education activities provided under the Singapore Standard Educational Classification (SSEC). The activities of providing pre-primary level (SSEC 2020 Level of Education Attending '0') are classified in Group 851; at primary level (SSEC 2020 Level of Education Attending '1') in Group 852; at secondary and post-secondary level (SSEC 2020 Level of Education Attending '2' and '3' respectively) in Class 8531 and 8532 respectively; and at tertiary levels (SSEC 2020 Level of Education Attending '4' and above) in Group 854.
This section also includes:
•the provision continuing education and training (CET) programmes, classified in Group 855 (depending on the type of course)
•non-formal instruction primarily concerned with sport and recreational activities such as baseball or basketball in Group 855
•educational support activities such as those relating to administration, inspection, operation or support of schools and other institutions providing education in Group 856
Cross-References & Exclusions (Classified Elsewhere)
- • online marketplaces operating on a fee or commission basis for education services provided by third-party, see 63203
- • infant care/ early childhood educational development services, see 88911