"sent for training" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone who has been chosen to receive training in a particular field or activity. For example: After proving himself capable, the employee was sent for training to become a manager.
The conscripts from Gambia were sent for training to Nigeria, Britain's largest colony in West Africa.
Performance was not rewarded, Mr. Springborg said, explaining that officers would be sent for training, before being sidelined.
The spare workers are sent for training or on holiday, or added as unbilled extras to project teams.
So the 11-year-old gelding was sent for training to Lizzie Murray, daughter of Jennie Lonestof-Clarke, one of Britain's most successful dressage riders.
The British leader spoke of benchmarks that would be set for the Afghan leader, including a three-month deadline to "identify" additional Afghan troops to be sent for training in Helmand Province, the hottest zone of the war.
A source in the General Prosecutor's Investigative Committee told the newspaper Kommersant that Mr. Tikhomirov had recruited 30 potential suicide bombers, who were sent for training at a madrasa in Turkey and then returned to Mr. Tikhomirov's authority.
He practiced anti-aircraft drills during basic training, and he was sent for pilot training but the program was canceled before it started.
Initial training (basic and advanced) is carried out in Sri Lanka before the trainees are sent for overseas training.
After his call-up and a year as a private he was sent for officer training.
In the summer of 1945, the 509th Composite Group was sent for additional training to Tinian, a small island in the Marianas captured from Japan in 1944.
Joining the RAF in 1942, he was sent for aircrew training to Rhodesia and failed his pilot's course, but passed out as an observer.
