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IITITI paid Elfin in grants

27th September 1974
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Employers respond well to graduate and recruitment grant scheme

FROM A levy income of £19½m during the year ended March 31 1974, the Road Transport Industry Training Board paid out just over £16m in grants. This is revealed in the Board's annual report just available.

In what now seems to be a healthy situation, the Board recorded a comfortable £826,000 excess of income over expenditure during the 12 months under review.

The report points out that the levy to be raised for the training year ending in July 1974 was the last to be raised under the current arrangements. The Secretary of State's proposals for the future had raised the figure below which an employer was not levied, and lowered the rates of levy.

As to the future, the Board had requested £9.1 m from central Government funds to support its training plans but, for 1975/76 had had to be satisfied with £5 m.

During the period of the report, however, group training associations continued to expand, increasing group membership by 11 per cent to 3650 companies and providing an increase of 188 driver training places to a total of 725 approved places.

The number of groupowned heavy goods training vehicles doubled to 64.

On the management side, the report states that employers responded better than ever to the grant scheme for recruitment and training of graduates. During the year, 60 young men with A-levels were recruited who gained admission for degree level courses at universities and polytechnics.

As a result of the Board's arrangements, the failure rate among graduates so far recruited to the industry has been much lower than the national average.

Managers trained

The scheme for training assistance in small companies (TASC) completed 11 business improvement groups during the year, during which 476 managers received training. In addition, a further nine groups were begun. The total result to the date of the report was 1,344 managers trained in 34 completed groups.

It is cheering to note that, according to the report, ' other training boards had accepted commitments for hgv driver training outside the road haulage industry though the extent of those commitments was not detailed. As well, following the termination at the end of February of the training of unemployed men as drivers, a new driver training scheme was begun within the framework of the Government's training opportunities scheme (TOPS) with an initial target of 5,000 trainees.


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