House of Assembly: Wednesday, February 13, 2008

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GROUP TRAINING ORGANISATIONS

51 Mr GRIFFITHS (Goyder) (10 July 2007). Why did the actual number of commencements in group training organisations not achieve the targeted number of 1,800 in 2006-07?

The Hon. P. CAICA (Colton—Minister for Employment, Training and Further Education, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for Youth, Minister for Gambling): The projected commencement figure of 1,800 is based on the projected numbers supplied to DFEEST each year by the group training organisations.

The actual number of commencements, however, and in-training numbers for group training organisations have been consistently around 1,600 and 3,500 respectively, for 2004-05 and 2005-06.

In 2006-07 group training commencements were 1,568 or 90.4 per cent of their projected apprentice/trainee commencements.

The level of Joint Group Training Program funds available to the group training organisations has remained constant.