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THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1989

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TECHNICAL INSTITUTES' GRADUATES WELL RECEIVED BY EMPLOYERS

A SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING COUNCIL FOUND THAT GRADUATES OF THE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES CONTINUED TO BE WELL RECEIVED BY EMPLOYERS IN THE COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL SECTORS.

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION OF THE 5,400

THE TECHNICAL INSTITUTES WAS ENCOURAGING.

FULL-TIME GRADUATES OF

THE SURVEY SHOWED THAT 67 PER CENT OF WITHIN THREE MONTHS AFTER GRADUATION LAST YEAR, A COUNCIL SAID TODAY (THURSDAY),

THEM WERE EMPLOYED SPOKESMAN FOR THE

OF THOSE EMPLOYED, ABOUT HALF HAD TAKEN UP JOBS ALMOST AND ABOUT 90 IMMEDIATELY AFTER COMPLETION OF THEIR STUDIES IN JULY,

JOBS RELATED PER CENT WERE IN

то THEIR COURSE OF STUDY AT THE INSTITUTES, THE SPOKESMAN ADDED.

THE SURVEY ALSO FOUND THAT 39 PER CENT OF THE WORKING GRADUATES WERE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES, AND 55 PER CENT WERE IN THE COMMERCE AND SERVICE SECTORS.

THE REST WERE IN OTHER SECTORS, INCLUDING GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT-SUBVENTED BODIES AS WELL AS PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANIES.

AND

NOTABLE INCREASES IN THE MONTHLY INCOME OF THESE GRADUATES WERE RECORDED COMPARED WITH THE FIGURES COLLECTED IN 1987.

LEVEL

THE AVERAGE MONTHLY SALARY WAS $3,500 FOR THE TECHNICIAN GRADUATES AND $2,600 FOR THOSE AT CRAFT LEVEL, REPRESENTING INCREASES OF 26 AND 28 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.

OF THE SURVEY ALSO SHOWED THAT THE NUMBER

GRADUATES PURSUING FURTHER FULL-TIME STUDIES HAD INCREASED SLIGHTLY BY TWO PERCENTAGE POINTS TO 27 PER CENT COMPARED WITH THE PREVIOUS YEAR.

то

EMPLOYED NEVERTHELESS, ABOUT HALF OF THE ENROL IN PART-TIME STUDY AT THE INSTITUTES.

GRADUATES

OR POLYTECHNICS

CONTINUED TECHNICAL

MANY OF THEM SAID THE COURSES WERE RELATED TO THEIR FORMER STUDIES AND USEFUL TO THEIR PRESENT EMPLOYMENT.

ANOTHER 36 PER CENT OF THE EMPLOYED CRAFT LEVEL ENTERED INTO A CONTRACT OF APPRENTICESHIP WITH SURVEY SHOWED.

THEIR

GRADUATES EMPLOYERS,

HAD

THE

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