Five-year training
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plan from RTITB
• A five-year strategic plan drawn up by the Road Transport Industry Training Board is designed to ensure that training facilities will meet forecast manpower needs. The plan will be reviewed annually to meet changing conditions. It will fix training targets within a time scale, ensuring that levy /grant policy is closely linked to the training situation.
The plan requires that by 1975 /76 at least 60 per cent of the managers and supervisors now employed in the industry will undergo approved training and two-thirds of all managers will have approved job descriptions. It is expected that 500 new graduates will be recruited annually and that an average annual total of 5000 newly appointed managerial staff will receive approved training.
The target for craftsmen's and technicians' training will be for 50,000 trainees a year to attend suitable courses by 1975/76; 12,000 craft apprentices should be recruited annually over the next five years. By 1975 /76 5000 of these will attend first stage vehicle trades or bodybuilders integrated courses, 5000 eligible apprentices will attend second stage integrated courses and at least 5000 apprentices third stage integrated courses.
These full-time courses are of several months' duration and combine formal industrial training with further education content. The target requires the provision of 1500 further Technical College stage I places, 4500 stage II places, and 5000 stage III places by 1975 /76.
The target for public service vehicle drivers is for 10,000 new drivers to receive training annually and a further 10,000 to receive refresher or conversion training. For heavy goods vehicle drivers, the annual initial training target is 20,000 with a further 30,000 refresher or conversion trainees. The Board has set an annual facilities target for 350,000 driver training days by 1975 /76—an increase of over 200,000 on present figures. Much of this will be via Board-sponsored group training associations and Board-assisted in-company training centres.
For clerical staff, the target is an annual average of 30,000 to receive training.
The overall objective is to raise standards and implement skills assessment tests to the point at which disengagement or partial disengagement from levy and grant can be considered for various occupations; for psv drivers by 1972 /73, for first-year craft apprentices by 1974/75 and hgv drivers by 1975 /76. It is also planned that as companies complete the recommended five-year cycle of management development, they can be subsequently disengaged from levy and grant for managerial occupations.