May 20, 2016
Trade training gets budget top up
With Christchurch and Auckland crying out for the skilled workers needed to catch up on a shortfall of housing, the government says next week’s Budget will throw another $9.6 million into Maori and Pasifika trade training.
That’s on top of the $43 million in the 2013 Budget.
Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell says reviving the trades training programme that worked so well for Maori in the 1960s and 70s was one of the conditions of the party’s 2011 relationship agreement with National.
Hundreds of graduates have now gone on to apprenticeships, jobs or further education and training.
While the Maori Party wanted to double the number of training places to 6000, the Government’s aim if to have 5000 places a year by 2019.
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