Election 2023 - Training and Apprenticeships Policy
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Act
Spokesperson:
Not yet available on their website.
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Green Party
Spokesperson:
Jan Logie
Link to
policy here
.
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- Support life long training and apprenticeships among employers and employees, especially low-income workers, including through Trades Academics.
- Raise the current cap on the number of apprentices, particularly those spread across several small business employers instead of one.
- Free vocational training and redeployment opportunities for those in high-emission industries to enable a transition to climate safe work.
- Increase resources for meaningful training of people currently out of work or underemployed, including through community education programmes.
- Implement better retraining to ensure that valuable skills and knowledge are not lost when workers suffer permanent injuries.
- Read more here
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National
Spokesperson:
Penny Simmonds
Link to
policy here
.
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- National will pay nurses’ and midwives’ student loan repayments up to a total of $4,500 a year for the first five years of their career, provided they remain working in their profession in New Zealand.
- Have a new medical school in Waikato to boost the number of doctors being trained.
- Increased training places at existing medical schools.
- Read more here
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TOP
Spokesperson:
Not yet available on their website.