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21/4/08 - Government Releases Reform Road Map

Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Treasurer Wayne Swan and Employment Participation Minister Brendan O’Connor released a road map for the reform of vocational education and training on 1 April 2008.

Under the government’s Skilling Australia for the Future initiative, 450,000 training places have been allocated over four years to ensure that Australians develop the skills that industry needs. The training places will be delivered in an industry-driven system, ensuring that training is more responsive to the needs of enterprises and individuals.

The training places will be available from 1 April 2008. Of the total training places, 175,000 will be allocated to job seekers. The roll-out of the first training places for job seekers commenced on the 1 April 2008 with 20,000 places being allocated at the Certificate II and III levels.

Unemployed people will benefit from this first batch of training places and could be in the workforce as early as June.

More information will be provided on the arrangements for Productivity Places for existing workers and apprentices on the Productivity Places Program External Link

web site in the near future.

Combined with new targets to halve the proportion of Australians aged 24 to 64 years without qualifications at Certificate Level III and above and double the number of higher qualification completions (diploma and advanced diploma) by 2020, the reforms will also lead to better jobs for working Australians.

For further information on the initiative, please visit the Productivity Places Program External Link

web site.

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