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Wairarapa young people get more career choices from Budget 2004, says Wairarapa MP Georgina Beyer.
A $57 million budget package announced this week enables two Wairarapa schools - Tararua College and Chanel College - to join the government's Gateway initiative by 2008, providing work-based skills training for students who're still at school.
The Budget package gives fifty extra schools across New Zealand the option to join the current list of 130 Gateway Schools.
The package also helps with career guidance and funds an extra 500 Modern Apprentices nationwide.
"The Budget package is great for young people in the Wairarapa. We now have 99 Modern Apprentices, up from 92 a year ago.
Those 7 more Modern Apprentices with a local career join 1,796 others in the Wairarapa, and almost 92,000 nationally, getting paid to learn job-based skills in the wider field of industry training.
"There's plenty of opportunity for people with skills to get good jobs. The economy's humming. Wellington's just announced unemployment figures are very low at 4.7 per cent.
"This budget will help set young people up for life. It delivers towards our commitment to each 15-19 year old being in education, training or work by 2007," says Georgina Beyer.
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