Released on March 19, 1998
Post-Secondary Education and Skills Training Minister Joanne Croffordannounced a $9.4 million boost for the Saskatchewan Training Strategy
in today's provincial budget, bringing the total investment in
training to $135.6 million.
The increased investment creates 23,000 training opportunities next
year - up 5,000 since last year's launch of the Saskatchewan Training
Strategy.
"More jobs are available in Saskatchewan and we are training people
for those jobs," Crofford said. "This is great news for everyone -
employers and learners."
Approximately $3.9 million of the increased investment will be
utilized to provide skills training to meet the emerging needs in the
labour market. This includes Apprenticeship, JobStart/Future Skills
retraining and industry response training and high demand programs at
SIAST.
An additional $2.6 million will be provided for community-based
training, family literacy, career and employment services.
An additional $2.9 million will be available to the Provincial
Training Allowance that was introduced last year as part of
Social Assistance Redesign. This income support program will
allow low income students to access the training they need to
become independent.
"At the same time we are increasing training opportunities, we
are improving provincial student financial assistance and
introducing a new provincial bursary program targeted at high
need students."
In total, the government has committed $434 million to
post-secondary education and skills training, an increase of
$48 million over last year's budget.
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For more information, contact:
Lily Stonehouse
Assistant Deputy Minister
Post-Secondary Education and Skills Training
Regina
Phone: (306) 787-5676