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Question and Answer Tracking Details

6504 - SMART AND SKILLED PROGRAM

Hornery, Sonia to the Minister for Education
  1. How much funding is allocated per trainee to successful training organisations under the Smart and Skilled program in New South Wales?
  2. How much funding was allocated per trainee in New South Wales under the previous funding program through State Training?
  3. How many trainee positions are available across New South Wales under the Smart and Skilled program?
  4. How many positions were available across New South Wales under the previous program through State Training?
Answer -
  1. Funding for individual trainees varies according to the traineeship qualification undertaken. Smart and Skilled prices, subsidies and fees for qualifications on 2015 Skills List are published on the State Training Services website.
  2. NSW Apprenticeship and Traineeship Training Program price rates paid to training providers on contract for 2014 are published on the State Training Services website.
  3. Smart and Skilled entitlement is demand driven within the budget.
  4. The Apprenticeship and Traineeship Training Program is demand driven. More than 69,000 apprentices and trainees were funded in 2013.

Question asked on 11 November 2014 (session 55-2) and printed in Questions & Answers Paper No. 16
Answer received on 17 December 2014 and printed in Questions & Answers Paper No. 23