Skills Institute delivering for Tasmanian students and employers

A national survey has found 92.5 per cent of Skills Institute graduates in Tasmania
fully or partly achieved the main reason for undertaking their training, well above the
national average of 85.3 per cent.

The good news comes with figures from the Skills Institute’s 2010-2011 Annual
Report, revealing the number of students enrolled at the Institute has increased from
19,718 in 2009 to 24,320 in 2010.

Skills Institute CEO Malcolm White said the findings were encouraging and
highlighted the wins the Institute had achieved in the past financial year.

“Further to this, an EMRS survey of employers reported that 92 per cent agreed or
strongly agreed that their employees had gained the skills they needed from training
with the Skills Institute,” Mr White said.

“These results were achieved in a tight financial year in which the Skills Institute
ended the year with a deficit of $327,000 inclusive of capital funding.”

The Skills Institute is a Registered Training Organisation that employs around 380
staff state-wide, delivering in excess of 700 training courses for Tasmanian
employers.
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