in order for smaller firms to engage in such training practices flexibility in training provision is necessary allowing people to studytrain what they want when they want and how they want at low cost offering modular instruction short and distancelearning options the most prominent examples of such radical restructuring are in the automotive sector and shipbuilding which are increasingly responding to lowcarbon demands for hybrid vehicles and offshore investment in wind and tidal energy respectively the potential for growth sectors to absorb workers from other industries relies on the effective coordination timing and management of workforce retraining programme