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What
is Skillnets ?
Skillnets
is an enterprise-led support body whose mission is to enhance
the skills of people in employment in Irish industry to support
competitiveness and employability. It is funded from the National
Training Fund and its stakeholders include leading employer
and employee representative bodies - IBEC, Chambers Ireland,
CIF, SFA, ICTU. Since 1999, Learning Networks have supported
the activities of over 43,000 Irish Enterprises and enabled
over 200,000 staff from a wide variety of sectors and regions
in Ireland to improve and meet their skills needs with a particular
focus on the needs of small and micro-enterprises. Skillnets
has been allocated significant increased funding to continue
its support for training networks into 2010 - 2011 .
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