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Show Alterations Made In Veterans Job Training Program BUSINESS establishments in the Roosevelt area which have been approved to provide veterans vet-erans on-the-job training will be contacted during the next few weeks by a representative of the State Department of Education to determine whether their training train-ing plans meet the specifications specifica-tions of Public Law 679. This information was released by Avard A. Rigby local director of adult education, following his return from a ten-day conference confer-ence in Salt Lake, at which the veterans on-the-job training program pro-gram was the principal topic of discussion. The purpose of the conference, according to" Mr. Rigby, was to better qualify persons engaged by the State Department of Education Ed-ucation for the task of re-writing existing plans which do not meet the standards of Public Law 679, and to better enable them to coordinate the activities of their department with the Veteran's Adrmnisration. TRAINING PLANS must be re-written for establishments which entered the program early in 1945 and have operated since that time under a letter of approval with no wage scale, job analysis, or progress chart. More recent plans will require only slight alterations of certain cer-tain details, Mr. Rigby stated. In several instances veterans have been assigned to schools outside the Basin for related instruction in-struction required under the training program, Under the new plan, a Uintah Uin-tah Basin school will be designated desig-nated as the institution to provide pro-vide such instruction.- Several ex-. cellent courses relating to on-the-job training will be made available locally through this plan. Other changes, according to Mr. Rigby, will be the reduction of the training period for non-apprenticable non-apprenticable occupations to two years. The state approval agency may, however, declare such occupations apprenticable upon the recommendation of the employer, and the local state representative, in which case no reduction in training time will be required. The newly adopted plans call for a more complete job breakdown break-down of each particular occupation occupa-tion in order to provide a more adequate training schedule to be followed by the on-the-job instructor. |