31.   These proposals will help middle class families pay the bills, raise their children, send them to college, upgrade their skills and save for retirement.

32.   Those who argue that there is some kind of panacea in simply upgrading the skills of the technologically inept are deluded.

33.   While out of the labor market, what kinds of steps did you take to upgrade your skills?

34.   Ahmad, who is the Assistant Group Editor of the New Straits Times, said that the yearly course was aimed at upgrading the skills of the newsmen.

35.   He added the process of upgrading the skills of workers in Malacca was far from satisfactory.

36.   He said the Government wants to help workers who have been laid off by providing training to upgrade their skills and enable them to find better jobs.

37.   Likely candidates might be car manufacturers, telecom and banks, who need to continuously upgrade skills and keep scores of employees current on the latest technologies.

38.   The Government, at the same time, is doubling the intake of trainees at its training institutes nationwide so as to upgrade the skills of local workers.

39.   The main activities will be institutional trainings at the job training workshops designed for young job-seekers and workers who want to upgrade their skills.

40.   The scheme, Lim said, would enable the laid-off workers to upgrade their skills which would become handy when the economy recovered.