Skills and Training
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JobTrainer: skills for the future and keeping the lights on
Tim Harcourt | July 24, 2020Along with the JobKeeper, Jobseeker and JobMaker programs designed to protect employees, small businesses and the most vulnerable in the economy during this time of public health crisis, we now have JobTrainer to shore up the skills side of the labour market. Tim Harcourt explains.
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Queensland training providers must hit the mark or risk being shut down
First 5000 | November 19, 2018The Palaszczuk Government will continue to weed-out underperforming and incompetent training providers as it strives to improve the quality of vocational education and training (VET) across Queensland.
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Training helps regional businesses grow for export
First 5000 | November 5, 2018A new Queensland government training program is designed help local small and medium-sized enterprises take their business to international markets.
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Boost for vocational training in WA secondary schools
First 5000 | October 23, 2018An overhaul of the vocational education and training (VET) delivered in Western Australian secondary schools will help ensure that state’s students receive the best quality training and are better prepared to enter the world of work.
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Industry forum in Darwin to focus on future skills
First 5000 | October 7, 2018Darwin businesses and industry representatives, training and education providers, students and Government leaders will come together for an Industry Skills Forum at the Hilton Hotel on 16 October to discuss the workplace skills of the future.
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Why school kids need more exposure to the world of work
Kate Torii | August 1, 2018The latest Mitchell Institute report says collaborating with industry and the community is vital to better prepare children and young people for future work and life.
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Business growth hampered by gaps in tech skills
First 5000 | July 26, 2018A new StartupAUS report reveals the most pressing skills gap in the Australian technology market, with international comparisons highlighting domestic trends and global competition for talent.
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Girl Geek Academy offers grants to attend US conference
First 5000 | July 13, 2018Girl Geek Academy is extending its impact into the U.S. market with a scholarship initiative aimed at increasing the number of minority groups working within the chaos engineering field.
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Creating a winning team through an award-winning culture
Paul Findlay | June 28, 2018A company’s culture is like a fingerprint – a truly unique identifier. It is a factor that is distinctive to every business and an attribute that breeds a winning team. While achieving an award-winning culture in your business can be a steep task, investing in it can deliver extraordinary outcomes.
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Lessons learned from investing in and operating VET colleges
Kevin Chin | June 16, 2018The hard lessons learned by a successful new training company have implications for developing better vocational training and professional development across Australia.
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International approaches to delivering VET
Kevin Chin | June 15, 2018What can Australia learn from the different models of vocational training employed around the world?
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Boosting human skills in the age of robotics
Kevin Chin | June 14, 2018Everyone, whether they are blue collar, white collar, back office, middle office or front office will need to embrace the mantra of lifelong learning. Students and workers alike will need to concentrate on skills first and qualifications second for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Boost for skills training in South Australia
First 5000 | June 9, 2018Australia is now a step closer to meeting its skills needs with South Australia signing on to the Turnbull Government’s Skilling Australians Fund National Partnership Agreement.
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To improve internships and placements, embed technology in their design
Denise Jackson | June 7, 2018Work integrated learning must be carefully designed with preparation, reflection and feedback at the forefront and technology used to maximise each. It should reflect current workplace practice and prepare students to succeed in the future of work.
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Nice work, if you can get it
Dan Woodman | May 17, 2018Internships can offer a useful bridge between education and employment for young people looking to enter a changing labour market, but how can we ensure they gain useful experience, rather than be exploited and discarded as unpaid serfs?