Colleges urged to increase workplace training

THIRD-LEVEL colleges must supply a major increase in workplace training and e-learning the chair of the National Centre for Partnership and Performance (NCPP) said at the weekend.

Peter Cassells, former head of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) said the rate and depth of change in businesses and public services is unlike anything seen here before.

There are many reasons for this, he told a conference examining ways of supporting and providing credits for learning in the workplace.