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10/12/2003
£190m set aside for workforce training schemes
Following the chancellor's pre-budget report, it has been announced that further investment will be channelled into workforce training totalling around £190 million.
The cash will boost to the Employer Training Pilot programme, extending the scheme to give free training to low-skilled workers in 12 current pilot areas for a further year, and expanding it to operate in six new areas.
Employer Training Pilots offer funding to employers to enable them to provide time off for their employees to take up free or subsidised tuition to improve their basic skills and qualifications. Recent evaluation shows that, in the initial six pilot areas, over 14,000 low-skilled workers from 3,000 employers have already benefited from training they would otherwise not have received.
The pre-budget report also underlined a commitment to establishing 1,000 Children's Centres by 2008 to provide integrated education, health and support services for children and their families; and establish nursery and school-parent links in 500 communities so that infants are introduced to early learning and books before compulsory education.
A Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship will also be established shortly to promote entrepreneurship to students and new graduates, and foster close collaboration between Higher Education Institutions and their regional and local business support communities.
Mr Clarke said: "Employer Training Pilots are reaching the employers and employees that traditional training programmes have never reached. Higher skills levels benefit the employee with improved pay and prospects, the employer with a more efficient workforce, and the economy as a whole with improved productivity."
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The cash will boost to the Employer Training Pilot programme, extending the scheme to give free training to low-skilled workers in 12 current pilot areas for a further year, and expanding it to operate in six new areas.
Employer Training Pilots offer funding to employers to enable them to provide time off for their employees to take up free or subsidised tuition to improve their basic skills and qualifications. Recent evaluation shows that, in the initial six pilot areas, over 14,000 low-skilled workers from 3,000 employers have already benefited from training they would otherwise not have received.
The pre-budget report also underlined a commitment to establishing 1,000 Children's Centres by 2008 to provide integrated education, health and support services for children and their families; and establish nursery and school-parent links in 500 communities so that infants are introduced to early learning and books before compulsory education.
A Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship will also be established shortly to promote entrepreneurship to students and new graduates, and foster close collaboration between Higher Education Institutions and their regional and local business support communities.
Mr Clarke said: "Employer Training Pilots are reaching the employers and employees that traditional training programmes have never reached. Higher skills levels benefit the employee with improved pay and prospects, the employer with a more efficient workforce, and the economy as a whole with improved productivity."
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