Stronger Govt. Support For Sapma Mission To Uplift Coatings Skills
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Company Announcement - The SA Paint Manufacturing Association and the Chemical Industries Education & Training Authority have entered "an intensified era of cooperation" to boost skills upliftment in the coatings industry, says Deryck Spence, executive director of SAPMA.
Spence says the renewed commitment by CHIETA to work closely with SAPMA to support SAPMA's training initiatives follows the keynote address at the opening of the recent Coatings for Africa 2015 conference and symposium in Sandton by Dr Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education and Training. In his address, Dr Nzimande said there was great potential to expand employment in the coatings sector which the Government regarded as a "'very important" industrial sector. "The Minister furthermore said that training in the industry had to be driven by the industry itself where the expertise lay, and that CHIETA should assist in expanding training in the coatings sector. Dr Nzimande then called for an 'indaba' between SAPMA and CHIETA to discuss training and development in the industry," Spence said. Spurred on by the Minister's directive, CHIETA and SAPMA met on June 29.
"The meeting was highly successful and a steering committee, on which the chairpersons of the various SAPMA committees will serve, was elected to clarify training requirements and direct the way forward to a formal indaba." " SAPMA has, since the inception of its training arm, the SA Paint Industry Paint Institute (SAPITI) in 1987, trained over 7 000 members' staff at a cost of at least R13 million to the industry - without any government grant for this training. With SAPMA now officially recognised as an 'Institute of Occupational and Sectoral Excellence', and the intensified support from CHIETA, we see hope on the horizon for training in the coatings sector," Spence stated.
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