$2bn government skills program ‘failed to address key shortages’ | The Australian
Another billion dollar Labor program that has failed to deliver:
A KEY $2.1 billion federal government skills program designed to provide 711,000 training places over five years was so badly administered that evaluators couldn’t tell who it had trained, according to a report obtained under Freedom of Information. A mid-term review of the Productivity Places Program by Allen Consulting found that despite its size it had failed to adequately target its training to skills shortage areas.
It was also impossible to estimate how many people had participated. The program, which was announced in 2008 when Julia Gillard was education minister, was trumpeted as a key initiative to upgrade the skills of workers and help the unemployed find jobs.
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