Practical experience in the apprenticeship program up until 1995, when Government withdrew funding, demonstrated that businesses was producing a valuable and steady contribution to the country's engineering skills pool. After 1995 the stream of qualified personnel with immediately useable skills dwindled. Uitenhage based Goodyear Plant Engineer Titch Booth said the company had closed its original apprentice school in 1995 after government withdrew funding for apprentice programmes, but had … [Read more...] about Maybe We Should Revive the Government Apprenticeship Program

