The Mercury reports that Barloworld Transport recently celebrated the official launch of its Transport Academy at its subsidiary Manline’s Pietermaritzburg headquarters.
The fully accredited training centre offers not only professional driving training – including an industry first Women Driver Development Programme – but other learnerships and school partnership programmes, which enable the organisation to make a sizeable dent in the country’s skills requirements and development needs. Barloworld Transport has 1,800 drivers and has set several international benchmarks by creating a driver career path, backed by a national certificate for those who complete the company’s in-house training courses. The academy is running learnership and apprenticeship programmes for more than 850 learners (both employed and unemployed) throughout southern Africa, in conjunction with its subsidiary companies and supported by stakeholders such as Teta (the Transport Education and Training Authority) and the Road Freight Chamber.
- Read this report by Peta Lee in full at The Mercury
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