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- Group training involves an organisation employing an apprentice
or trainee under an apprenticeship/traineeship contract and placing
them with a host employer.
- Since its inception in the 1970s employment in group training
companies has grown from just a small percentage of total apprentices
and trainees to employing around 14% of the total.
- Group training appears to complement other training investment
rather than substitute for it (that is, without group training
less training would occur).
- Group training companies are highly adaptive and responsive
to their policy and commercial environment.
- Host employers, in the main, are very satisfied with the services
provided by group training companies.
- Seventy per cent of group training apprentices and trainees
are hosted by workplaces with fewer than 200 employees.
- The main reasons for employers using group training are, in
descending order of importance: savings on recruitment and selection;
avoidance of administrative complexity; saving on employment costs;
and lack of continuous work.
- Government attempts to increase labour market participation
of equity groups through group training have proved to be relatively
successful.
- Group training activities are becoming more commercially driven
and this may threaten the quality of training generally and, in
particular, training opportunities for the more disadvantaged.
- Newer group training companies (post-1990) tend to be smaller,
less likely to be in receipt of government funding (joint policy
funding) and more likely to be operating a variety of related
labour market activities which have become available through deregulation
of labour market and training programs.
- Deregulation has provided alternative means of financial support
for the group training function but means, in turn, less government
supervision and more emphasis on price as the basis of competition
rather than provision of support services.
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