SA Trade Schools Booming

The Rann Government’s Trade Schools for the Future are defying the economic downturn as hundreds of students sign up to learn trade skills while they complete Year 12. Local businesses have taken on 734 school-based apprentices since the State’s 10 trade schools opened two years ahead of schedule at the start of 2008, and that number is continuing to climb. Education Minister Jane Lomax-Smith says the target is to have 1200 school-based apprentices signed up by the end of the 2010 school year.