PAC: HRD Corp boss misled board on Skills Passport issue

The Human Resource Development Corporation (HRD Corp) appears to have misled its board as well as the Human Resources Ministry to push through the Skills Passport project, the bipartisan parliamentary Public Accounts Committee found.

After hearing the testimonies of several board and management members, it found discrepancies over whether the board or the ministry had approved the project, and that both sides seem to have been misled to believe approval was given by the other side.

“The PAC found there were contradictions...