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The graph and pie chart below give information on in-house training courses in a large financial company.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given pie chart and graph table provide a summary of information about the offered in-house training courses and the chosen personnels' opinions about these courses. Overall, it can be seen that half of the training hours contain technical information, whereas the health and safety courses take only one-sixth of it, 5 hours. It is also clear that both managers and secretaries consider the time that they spent on courses as an important activity for the job.

A brief examination of the pie chart reveals that there are four different types of courses. Technical courses take the lion's share of the training hours and career development courses are the second after that. Health and safety and interpersonal skills courses take only a quarter of the pie, 15 hours together.

As it can be seen from the graph table, there are various opinions about the courses. Most of the personnel of the company believe that the courses are important for the job. The second most common idea is that the courses are a good excuse for a change, more than 60% of both management and secretary personnel support the idea. Less than 10% of the secretaries and slightly more than 10% of the managers support the idea that the courses are waste of time.