Thursday 16 October 2008

Train to Gain – rubbish?

People Bulletin says that Train to Gain recently celebrated its second anniversary, but despite the funding pushed into it, its detractors find it a cumbersome mess.

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Hazel's comment:
I haven't been at the sharp end of anything like this for a number of years now so anything I say will be based on the mess, sometimes cumbersome and sometimes just a mess, of similar “we must train people to get the skills that UK plc needs” schemes in the past. Thinking about it the first such thing I was actively involved in was the Job Creation Scheme which was more a get them off benefit initiative rather than get them trained one. JCP was replaced by ??? which was replaced by ??? etc etc. Do we have the skills that UK plc needs to survive let alone flourish? We will when Train to Gain has had a while longer, and a lot more money (at least that's what the government tells us).

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