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The government has made a significant commitment to improving skills by giving the go ahead on a National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure today. This move promises to improve the standard of coaching across England, giving athletes training towards the 2012 Games an even better chance of claiming a place on the medals podium.

Led by employers in the sport and leisure sector and coordinated by SkillsActive - the Sector Skills Council (SSC) for active leisure and learning - the skills academy will open later this year and will train 85,000 new entrants, existing staff and volunteers every year by 2013.

Stephen Studd, Chief Executive at SkillsActive said:

“This is a very exciting time for our sector and SkillsActive. By the end of the year, there will be radical changes to the way industry employers access training for their workforce. The skills academy will mark the end of fragmented training - it will be highly personalised and prioritised to address our industry’s most pressing skills issues at levels 1 to 4.”

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Date: 15/05/2008

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