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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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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Ai Group’s Clive Milham participated in an Industry 4.0 Advanced Manufacturing Forum delegation to Hannover Messe in April. This Forum of industry leaders and organisations has been formed to support Australian industry transformation and is the successor to the Prime…
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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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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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The Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) introduced a reporting requirement on organisations with an annual consolidated revenue of $100 million or more.
With Trade Wars between our two largest trading partners, the indecision of Brexit and WTO paralysis, it can feel like Australian businesses are flotsam in a sea of trade uncertainty. Fortunately, Ai Group has a global voice though our membership…
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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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