Tánaiste announces details of €20million training fund [education.ie]
- Published: 01 June 2010
Labour Market Activation Fund to provide 6,589 places
The Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan T.D. has today announced that some 6,589 training places will be made available to the unemployed under the Labour Market Activation Fund, 2010.
Some €20million has been ring-fenced to provide the courses in a range of different locations targeting the less-skilled, and those formerly employed in declining sectors such as construction, retail and manufacturing, with particular emphasis on the under 35s and the long-term unemployed.
Following an open tender competition in which 370 tenders were received, the contracts are being awarded to organisations across the private, not-for-profit and public sectors to support specific training and education programmes for priority groups of the unemployed.
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