The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) has published its apprenticeship and traineeship completion rates for 2018, with this year’s results revealing a continued decline in completion rates. The data takes commencement numbers from four years previously for trade…
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The Commonwealth Government has reviewed the employer incentives it provides for Australian Apprenticeships and has made some revisions which commenced on 1 July 2019. The existing incentives for apprentices and trainees remain, but three new incentives apply. The Australian Apprentice…
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Young people in Australia experience higher levels of unemployment than the rest of the population. This is for a variety of reasons including a perceived or real lack of experience and skills, a mismatch between the supply and demand of…
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Australia needs an increasing supply of higher education graduates to meet the growth rates in high skilled labour over the coming decades. Pleasingly, new research from the Productivity Commission shows that domestic student numbers did increase from 2012 to 2017…
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The latest quarterly data release about apprenticeships and traineeships was issued by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) on 5 June. Like the last data release, there was some positive news, but overall the figures keep pointing downwards….
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New research from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute with CSIRO into the employment outcomes of PhD graduates shows that PhD graduates are gaining qualifications they intend to apply in the workforce, outside of academia. Over 50 percent of PhD graduates…
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There are countless opinions out there as to what’s going to happen in the future world of work, but the truth is, no one knows for sure. That said, we shouldn’t fear this unknown, or the change that is coming….
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The latest quarterly data release about apprenticeships and traineeships was issued by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) earlier this month. There were some bright notes, but overall the picture is one of decline. There were 267,385 apprentices…
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Apprentice commencements are up and trainee commencements are down, according to the latest data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). The latest data is for the quarter ending 30 June 2018, and show overall commencements decreased by…
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Over the past few weeks the Commonwealth has announced two changes to apprenticeship incentives that may well encourage more businesses to consider their options. The first, commencing on 1 July 2019, is to extend the Support for Adult Australian Apprentices…
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