More skills training for Queensland school leavers and job seekers

Queensland school leavers and job seekers will benefit from increased access to free or low-fee skills training under a significant investment through the JobTrainer Agreement to be rolled out across Queensland.

September 26, 2020

IBAC charges former public sector employee following investigation into VET and transport sectors

The Victorian government’s corruption watchdog has charged four people with a range of offences as part of a corruption investigation involving the state vocational education and training and transport sectors.

September 17, 2020

NSW commits $160m to JobTrainer program

NSW has committed nearly $160 million to the federal JobTrainer program in a bid to help people to reskill for future employment in the health, manufacturing and construction sectors.

September 16, 2020

NSW JobTrainer Agreement announced

This initiative will deliver an extra $318.56 million into the NSW Vocational Education and Training sector, with $159.28 million from the Commonwealth Government matched dollar-for-dollar by the State Government. JobTrainer will fund approximately 108,000 free or low-fee training places in NSW, with a combination of short and long courses for job seekers and young people, including school leavers.

August 26, 2020August 26, 2020

PWC Australia releases report where next for skills

The pace of technological change triggered by COVID-19 is unprecedented. Businesses are looking to digitalisation and automation to drive growth as economies recover from the impacts of the pandemic. To meet the demands of this accelerated technological change, with the added complication of border closures, business needs to shift its focus to reskilling and upskilling employees. Inaction is not an option. What Australia needs now is a business-led recovery that’s built on upskilling and supported by government initiatives.

August 24, 2020August 24, 2020

Short courses to fix skills shortages in efforts to rebuild the economy

PwC Australia will on Monday release a report which recommends a tighter partnership between industry and government to address future skills needs with “micro-credentials”. These are shorter courses, as opposed to a full qualification that provide specific skills a business needs.
Read more here: https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/australia-should-take-the-short-course-to-rebuild-report-20200822-p55ocj.html

August 13, 2020

Applications open for next round of Skilling Queenslanders for Work funding

Skilling Queenslanders for Work funds skills development, training and job opportunities for job seekers, disengaged or disadvantaged Queenslanders through a suite of targeted skills and training programs. The second round of this year’s $90 million project funding pool is open for community-based not-for-profit organisations, local councils and school P&Cs, to provide hands on skills.

August 6, 2020

VET funding system being examined

Less than half of all women in the workforce with vocational education and training certificates earn enough to repay their student loans according to the report, Skills for recovery: The vocational education system we need post-COVID-19 recently released by the Mitchell Institute at Victoria University.

August 4, 2020

TAFE role critical to rebuilding economy

The Productivity Commission National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development Review Interim Report into the future of skills and workforce development in Australia favours private providers, increasing contestability, student loans and vouchers and fundamentally fails to ensure TAFE’s future as the pre-eminent public provider of high-quality Vocational Education and Training (VET) across the nation.

August 4, 2020

Union wants TAFE fully funded

The Australian Education Union has made a submission to the Productivity Commission’s review of the vocational education and training sector, which is due to be finalized by November in it warning against privatizing the vocational education sector and imploring the federal government to give TAFE more funding.