A big impact of COVID-19 has been its effect on attendance at education and training programs. Universities and TAFEs are still largely closed to physical attendance by students and apprentices, and generally companies are not allowing staff to attend training…
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As another decade of disappointingly slow growth in Australia draws to a close, policy makers, business leaders and many others are pondering what needs to happen before growth picks up to the old pre-GFC levels that we had come to…
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Product safety is a serious business because it is fundamentally about ensuring Australians are unharmed. Standards Australia once described standards like guardian angels – mostly unseen but always working to keep you out of harm’s way. From the public’s perspective…
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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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Warren Bradford was positively frothing as he described how his business Deacam is using the internet of things (IoT) to take beer making and fermentation technology to the next level. Warren was speaking to a packed audience of business leaders…
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If you are a decision maker in your organisation and consider cyber security and data breaches as just an IT issue, it is probably time to change your thinking. According to the latest OAIC statistics, the highest incidents of data…
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There has been much discussion recently on all platforms about “future-proofing Australia” and preparing for substantial Industry Transformation. However, the matter of Standards Development can often be drowned out in all the noise. When considering these concepts, we are often…
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Have you considered how your company can benefit from micro-placements, online projects, ‘hackathons’, incubators and student consulting services? These are some of the innovative ways of engaging students that have been identified through an Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) project….
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Does your business use the internet or do you use it for personal reasons? If you are reading this post, the answer is a resounding “yes” and, like most businesses and individuals, you may be affected by the Assistance and…
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Newcastle, centre of the Hunter Region and NSW’s second city, has a whole new face as a manufacturing and technology region following the closure of the BHP steel mill in 1998. A region with 150 years of engineering history, it…
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