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THE GOVERNMENT will retai some industrial training board: Employment Secretary Norma Tebbitt pledged in London.
He told the British Associatio for Commercial and industrii Education: "I see no sense i throwing away useful instai tions for purely ideologicE reasons. Training is too impoi tant to the country to becom the victim of purely doctrin4 disputes.
"If we get away from narro% doctrines it is immediately clea that different industries' need may well call for different ant wers. The one common theme i that we want the best approacI available for each industry, an, that is what our consufation have been about," he said.
There are key areas in whicl training boards must be re tamed, said Mr Tebbitt. "Ver few of the decisions will be easNi It is a question of balance of ad vantage, making the best use our resources and of being cos effective."
He said that an announcemen on future training arrangement. will be made early in the nex session of Parliament.