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An additional 3,000 training places are now on offer to upskill at home during lockdown, says NSW Minister for Skills and Tertiary Education, Geoff Lee.

‘An extra 60 short courses are now on offer to study for free including business skills, mental health, marketing, finance and IT skillsets’.

‘The free courses are available to anyone across the State who is unable to work owing to public health orders.

‘Training will be funded through the JobTrainer program, which has already seen more than 120,000 people in NSW skill up since it was announced in October last year’. For more information and to see full eligibility, visit TAFE.

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