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Changes to the school system will support youth employment

19 February 2012

Changes pending in the school system, instigated by Industry Training Organisations (ITOs), will support young people into jobs, Industry Training Chief Executive Mark Oldershaw said today.

Mr Oldershaw was responding to the Salvation Army’s new State of the Nation Report highlighting low youth employment and the number of youth not in employment, education or training.

He said ITOs were a key force behind the vocational pathways work that had been adopted by the Ministry of Education as part of its youth guarantee.  Read more