‘Ghetto’ school-leaver courses criticised
PA Auckland Existing school-leaver training schemes are “ghetto” courses, says the president of the Association of Teachers in Technical Instititutes, Ms Lorraine Webber. Ms Webber said a big criticism was that schoolleavers’ selection for schemes depended on their registration as unemployed. Trainees were on training schemes for a short time and learned "a smattering of dead-end skills” that often did not lead to further training or jobs, she said.
The association supported a Government transitional education plan to provide a year’s training for all unemployed school-leavers. The association believed technical institutes would be main providers for the plan, so that more tutors and tutor training would be needed. Ms Webber said schoolleavers should be able to enter broad-based programmes that taught them various skills to cope with dhe transition from schoohto wdult life.
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