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In a bid to encourage companies to provide more training and retraining for their employees in preparation for the shortage of skilled labour forecast for the 1990s, the National Interactive Video Centre — supported by the Department of Trade and Industry — has launched six interactive video training programmes, the first to be made by further education colleges in collaboration with industry. As the number of adults under the age of 25 will have fallen by 1.2 million by 1995 many companies are realising that, if they are to take full advantage of the opportunities arising when Britain joins the Single European Market in 1992, they must draw a proportion of their workforce from new sources for whom appropriate training will be essential.