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Training Levy to be Heavy?

4th December 1964
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LEVIES payable under• the Industrial Training Act are likely to be substantial, warned Sir John Hunter, chairman of the Central Training Council, when he addressed industrialists in Wales last week.

Remarking on the advantage of flexibility which the establishment of separate industrial training boards for individual industries provided, he also warned that there was a danger in this: it would be possible for different boards to establish conflicting standards for the same occupations. The Council, he said, would play an important part in establishing general principles and priorities.

He affirmed that the Council would certainly want to look at apprenticeships, and he questioned whether four or five years was long enough to train an apprentice .properly.

Sir John said that the special committee already set up to take a look at training for commercial and clerical occupations should soon also be looking at training for supervisors and foremen. Research would be another field for the Council; too little had been done in general education or in industrial training.

After referring to the fact that the Minister of Labour had established a liaison committee to advise Ministers on ways of encouraging the rapid development of industrial training, Sir John stressed that the success of the Act must ultimately depend on the action taken by individual firms. It was not simply a question of taking on more craft apprentices, he said; it was just as important to train operatives properly and to have an effective programme of supervisory training and management development. There was room for training at all levels.

The levy imposed on individual firms would in all probability be substantial, said Sir John, and would be offset by a grant only if a firm provided training to a standard recognized by the boards.

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