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Increase in training numbers heartening

Increase in training numbers heartening
25 June 2009

News that industry training numbers and modern apprenticeships are slightly up is heartening, Industry Training Federation Executive Director Jeremy Baker said today.

He was commenting on news today from Tertiary Education Minister Anne Tolley that trainee numbers had increased by 151 between December 2008 and March 2009. Trainee numbers had also increased from the same time last year, with there being 190 more trainees than in March 2008.

“It is encouraging that, overall, businesses appear to be recognising that it is important to maintain training to ensure that when the recession is over, we are not left with an underskilled workforce.

“Many ITOs have also come up with packages and initiatives to help their industries maintain training levels.

“The increase in itself is not spectacular, but when it could have so easily been a decrease, this is good news,” Mr Baker said

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