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Training Board's courses earned over £107,000
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THE Road Transport Industry Training Board's operational services group — that part of the Board which arranges courses and seminars on a commercial basis — earned over 007,000 last year. This was revealed in the Board's annual report and accounts for the year to March 31, 1976.
It was encouraging, says the Board, that much of the work that this group has in hand stems from a return for more by previous customers.
Training seems to have reached a "plateau" for the report shows that during the 1974/75 training year, exactly the same number of employees in the industry received offthe-job training as in the previous year. They represented the first stabilisation of training since the 1970/71 period and followed a decrease of 21 per cent over the previous three years.
The figures showed that the industry had not only maintained a relatively stable level of training activity despite the deepening depression in the economy but had reversed the trend for managerial training to be cut back. There were 3,000 more management trainees during the period representing an increase of 18 per cent.
Apprentice numbers increased, too. Some 10,000 new apprentices represented an increase of 15 per cent over the previous year and 8,000 or 5 per cent more attended integrated courses. Both Motecs are working at planned capacity and, during the year, 8,100 trainees attended 960 courses.
Group training associations expanded their membership and number of training places available despite the Board having to introduce a preservation grant in April last year to help GTAs over the recession hump.
Just under 900 employers applied for exemption from levy, but the training arrangements of many of these failed to satisfy the Board's criteria • for exemption.
However, just over 110 levy exemption certificates were awarded and those employers who did not qualify for exemption received levy rebates for those categories of employees where training arrangements were satisfactory.
Assistance was being given to these employers to enable them to move towards full exemption.
Nearly 6,500 training grant claims were paid during the year and some 2,200 employers received more in grant than they had paid in levy.