The Chartered Surveyors Training Trust has promoted surveying as a career for over 20 years, helping those who may not normally have this opportunity because of their academic or financial circumstances. Every year it places 35-40 people, aged 16-24, with construction companies. These employers, including Balfour Beatty, Gleeds and Skanska, pay the trust an annual fee of ￡5,000 per trainee. Apart from these contributions, the trust is dependent on government money - which in 2005 was slashed from ￡10,033 to ￡4,850 per trainee. The trainees spend four days a week working for the company they are placed with and one day a week in college. The trust supports them while they study for an NVQ through to a degree in building surveying, quantity surveying or general practice surveying.
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