The Continuing Vocational Training Survey (CVTS), is conducted every five years as per EU regulation amongst enterprises with 10 or more employees and selected NACE Rev. 2 activities ...
... Enterprises providing some form of Continuous Vocational Training (CVT) during 2015 amounted to a total of 1,187 enterprises (61.6%), while the remainig 739 enterprises (38.4%) did not provide any form of training to their employees.
... Nearly two-thirds of all small size enterprises
(i.e. having 10-49 employees) did not provide CVT courses.
… A total of 38,998 (35.8 per cent) employees
underwent at least one CVT course during the reference year.
… Around 1.5 million paid working hours were spent
on CVT courses (amounting to 0.8 per cent of the total paid working hours), of
which the majority (56.5 per cent) were allocated to Internal CVT courses.
… On average, enterprises which provided CVT
courses for their employees directly spent €636 per participant. On the other
hand, the average personal absence cost (i.e. the indirect cost of sending
employees to training) amongst all CVT participants who was borne by the
enterprises, stood at €522 per participant. This amounts to a total average
cost (direct and indirect) of €1,158 per participant.
... Of the 739 enterprises which did not provide CVT
courses or any other form of courses, 565 enterprises (76.5 per cent) revealed
that the primary reason for not doing so was that the existing qualifications,
skills and competences were in line with the current needs of the enterprise.
...Enterprises providing some form of Initial
Vocational Training (IVT), such as apprenticeship, numbered 311 enterprises
(16.1 per cent).
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