Scheme aims to reskill 6,000 jobless [IrishTimes]
- Published: 23 May 2011
UNIVERSITY OF Limerick, University College Dublin, Dublin City University and University College Cork have all signed up to offer courses under a new programme to be announced this week offering higher education opportunities for those out of work.
The Government will announce the creation of 6,000 part-time higher education and training places for the unemployed this week as part a plan to get people back to work.
The three-year “Springboard” initiative is aimed at skilled workers who have lost their jobs and who are living on benefits.
It will offer them the opportunity to access free higher education and training without affecting their right to receive welfare payments.
The programme, managed by the Higher Education Authority, will cost about €22 million over three years.
Up to 6,000 higher education and training places will be provided in sectors expected to provide the jobs of the future.
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