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CHAPTER . EXPANSION OF EDUCATIONALOPPORTUNITIES

Along with social education and miscellaneous schools, vocational training provided in publicly or privately maintained facilities, and training within industry offered by central and local public bodies or by private enterprises, are also playing an important role.

Vocational training is provided by public vocational training centers, under the supervision of the Ministry of Labor, and by centers participating in the so-called" authorized vocational training programs" (those programs provided. by enterprises and juridical persons authorized by prefectural governors in accord with a Ministry of Labor directive). Their purpose is the training of skilled laborers, the maintaining and upgrading of their skills, or the re-developing of their abilities. As of 1969,there were 407 public vocational training centers, with the total enrollment of106, 000. In these centers, skilled laborers are being trained in occupations relating to machines, repair of automobiles, architecture, and drafting. As of April, 1969,59.927 non-public training centers were providing authorized vocational training to84, 000 trainees. As shown in Figure 25, the highest numbers of these (39,000 or47%) are in the fields of construction, and manufacturing (38,000 or 46%).

Figure 25. Percent Distribution of Trainees byMajor Category of Industry

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Note: Actual numbers are given in Basic Table 33. Basic Table33

Training within industry alms at developing the abilities of individual workers, whether this involves training newly recruited employees, educating middle level managers, top management or workers engaged in new technical fields, whether the worker is in a central or local public body, or in a private enterprise.