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The Enterprise Based Productivity Places Program (EBPPP)
Media release | 5 November, 2009
The Hon Julia Gillard MP
Minister for Education
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations
Minister for Social Inclusion
Deputy Prime Minister
Government partners with industry to provide additional training places
The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today announced that the Rudd Government will co-fund up to 11,000 additional training places for small and medium business in a $25 million program designed to address skills shortages as the economy improves.
The Enterprise Based Productivity Places Program (EBPPP) will provide up to 90 per cent of the cost of training from Certificate III to Advanced Diploma level. It is designed to increase the skills of existing workers especially in occupations on the priority occupations list.