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3. (1) The network "of vocational schools existing- in each country should be progressively developed with due regard on the one hand to industrialization plans and on the other hand to the particular importance of handicraft activities to the region. (2) Such a network of schools should include, inter alia—(a) Wherever possible, facilities for initiation into manual work of several kinds ; (b) Trade schools for the training of skilled workers ; (c) Schools for th.e training of supervisory staff and technicians for industry. (3) The training programmes applied in vocational schools should include—(a) Initial training courses to precede entry into employment; (b) Supplementary training courses for the upgrading of workers ; (c) Courses of theoretical instruction specially designed for workers receiving on-the-job training. 4. (1) Apprenticeship systems should be organized for those industrial and handicraft trades which require a high degree of skill. (2) The following measures are recommended to Governments as fundamental in this connection : (a) Enactment of apprenticeship legislation, where appropriate, establishing rights and obligations of employers and apprentices and prescribing rules which shall apply to the organization and supervision of this method of training ; (b) The institution, in each country, of national, regional and local apprenticeship committees composed of representatives of employers' and workers' organizations and representees of the authorities responsible for economic development and technical and vocational training; (c) The organization of a public apprenticeship service having at its disposal a skilled staff capable of promoting the development of this type of training in undertakings ; (d) The establishment of close co-operation between the apprenticeship service and the employment service. 5. Provision should be made for other systems of in-plant training of relatively short duration, for young persons who have neither attended a vocational school nor had the benefit of a proper apprenticeship. 6. (1) Steps should be taken by the Governments to make available suitable and adequate facilities for the training of adults, including full-time, part-time and eveningcourses for the training and upgrading of workers to be organized and developed in schools, and, in appropriate cases, in special training centres. (2) Undertakings should likewise institute or elaborate in a systematic manner training programmes for their adult workers. Such programmes should contain, inter alia, means of facilitating the upgrading and promotion of workers. (3) Training in schools and special centres may usefully be followed by a period of supplementary training in the course of employment in an undertaking. 7. (1) The distribution of administrative responsibilities between the authoritiesconcerned with various aspects of vocational and technical training should be clearly defined and a systematic co-ordination of these authorities should be established in order to ensure the efficacy of the training and the rational use of the available resources, the co-ordinating authority being normally the employment service. (2) Advisory bodies should be set up for the purpose of ensuring at the national, regional and local level the full co-operation of—(a) The authorities concerned with education, training, employment and economicdevelopment ; (b) Representatives of employers' and workers' organizations ; (c) Other organizations concerned with youth questions, with vocational guidance and with technical and vocational training.

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