No time to be complacent about replacement
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Training market ‘hasn’t boosted trades’
14/03/2014 by
The Australian | 14 March 2014…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Victoria’s open training market has done little to boost numbers of qualified tradespeople. …………………………………………………………………………………………………In a report to the Victorian parliament, Auditor-General John Doyle said there had been “no real improvement” in the proportion of apprentices and trainees emerging from government-funded training courses.Doyle said apprenticeships and traineeships had “stalled” even though spending on them had increased by more than one-third over the past 10 years. The report finds that there are no more people starting apprenticeships and traineeships now than there were in 2004 and as in 2004, a third … [Read more...]
