Industry leaders worried standards will change under new govt
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Industry leaders are worried a change of government will spell the end of a new way of setting standards and qualifications for tradies.
They say Workforce Development Councils are a vast improvement on the industry training organisations they replaced.
The National and ACT parties want to dump the six councils, which were introduced two years ago as part of the changes that created super-polytechnic Te Pūkenga.
Here's our education correspondent John Gerritsen.