Earlier this year, 16 apprentices employed through the Industry 4.0 Higher Apprenticeships project travelled to Germany to extend their understanding of technological developments and to partner internationally with other apprentices on a virtual collaboration project. The Industry 4.0 Higher Apprenticeships…
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As part of the Apprenticeship Compact, the New South Wales Department of Industry has supported Ai Group to deliver a project providing language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) support to apprentices. One such program achieving success is with Powerline Worker apprentices…
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Apprentice and trainee commencements are on the rise according to the latest data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). Their latest data cover the quarter ending 31 December 2017, and show commencements increased by 7.6 per cent compared…
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Ai Group recently had the opportunity to visit The Victorian Space Science Education Centre (VSSEC) at Strathmore Secondary College, which is designed to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. VSSEC is a specialist not-for-profit Science, Technology, Engineering and…
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This week Ai Group participated in the Lifelong Learning Summit organised by Adult Learning Australia in Melbourne as part of the 2018 Year of Lifelong Learning. The Summit is timely. With technological changes across nearly all industries, regardless of current…
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On 21 March 2018, Victoria’s Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Women, Natalie Hutchins, held a conference on gender pay gaps in the Australian workforce. Around 500 people attended. Ai Group’s Nicola Street and Julie Toth addressed the conference,…
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Employers are being supported with incentives to host internship placements when taking on young workers under a new method by the Australian Government to address youth unemployment. The Government’s Youth Jobs PaTH Program also supports young people through intensive pre-employment…
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In a recent report, Building Skills for All in Australia, the OECD joins the throng of those drawing attention to low literacy and numeracy levels in Australia. The report highlights the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) survey results, which…
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Recent data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) indicates that there were 275,200 apprentices and trainees in training as at the end of March this year. This represents a fall of 3.7 per cent compared to the…
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Ai Group has been invited to provide views on behalf of members in order to finalise the Australian Government’s new Mature Age Employment Package, due for release during 2018 (see below for details on how to have your say). In…
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