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Mon Sep 14 2009
(From ABC.net.au) The Productivity Places Program started in April last year.
It aimed to provide training places for more than 700,000 people over five years to address Australia's skills shortage.
Martin Riordan, the chief executive of TAFE Directors Australia, says the program has been in strife from day one.
He says it has failed to look at longer-term skills needs.
"The problem has been that the program was rushed and was underfunded in many cases by more than 50 per cent," he said.
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