Ai Group’s new report of employer skills needs released last week highlights the increased percentage of employers facing skills shortages. Caused by a mix of factors, these skills gaps are hurting members as businesses grapple with strategies to source the…
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Recent data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research for the March 2018 quarter has shown that there were 272,440 apprentices and trainees in training at the end of March this year. This indicates a rise from the December…
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The National Centre for Vocational Education and Training (NCVER) released its annual apprenticeship completion data on 5 July 2018, showing national completion rates have declined since the last report. The NCVER collects completion data using two methodologies. The first is…
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The release this week of a ‘Thought Leader Paper’, The Imperative of Higher Apprenticeships, has demonstrated Ai Group’s commitment to this growing area of importance. The paper addresses the rationale for the introduction of ‘Higher Apprenticeships’ and the policy implications this…
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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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