The Government has announced funding of €8 million for 10 Institutes of Technology to support an estimated 2,300 additional apprenticeships in 13 different trades. Minister for Education Richard Bruton, Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor and Minister of State for Training John Halligan announced the capital funding on Monday. Budget 2018 allocated €122 million for apprenticeship training, an increase of almost 24 per cent on the previous year, the Ministers said. They said this would allow the delivery of 10 more apprenticeship programmes and over 6,000 more apprenticeship registrations this year. There were 4,843 new apprenticeship registrations in 2017, bringing the population to 12,849 by year-end.

Source: The Irish Times June 10, 2018 23:15 UTC