Australian government pushes through skills and training reform
14 March 2014
The Australian government is continuing to drive reform for skills and training for industry through a series of ongoing workshops.
Fri, 14 Mar 2014The Australian government is continuing to drive reform for skills and training for industry through a series of ongoing workshops.
The workshops aim to engage with industry to discuss how best to reform training under the Department of Industry’s Vocational Education and Training (VET) system.
After its launch in Sydney last Friday [7 March], minister for industry Ian Macfarlane said this was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to simplify a national system that Labour had left fractured, dysfunctional and overcomplicated.
“With businesses crying out for a simple way to access training, we have to make our convoluted skills and training system much more efficient and effective for everyone,” Macfarlane says.
According to a statement on the VET website, ‘Australia needs a skilled and flexible workforce to adapt to rapid technological change in the workplace, and to maintain and improve our economic position in the face of increasing global competition’.
Workshops took place in Adelaide on 12 March, Perth on 13 March and Darwin today [14 March]. Next week there are sessions in Brisbane (21 March), Hobart (27 March) and Melbourne (28 March).
The workshops aim to engage with industry to discuss how best to reform training under the Department of Industry’s Vocational Education and Training (VET) system.
After its launch in Sydney last Friday [7 March], minister for industry Ian Macfarlane said this was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to simplify a national system that Labour had left fractured, dysfunctional and overcomplicated.
“With businesses crying out for a simple way to access training, we have to make our convoluted skills and training system much more efficient and effective for everyone,” Macfarlane says.
According to a statement on the VET website, ‘Australia needs a skilled and flexible workforce to adapt to rapid technological change in the workplace, and to maintain and improve our economic position in the face of increasing global competition’.
Workshops took place in Adelaide on 12 March, Perth on 13 March and Darwin today [14 March]. Next week there are sessions in Brisbane (21 March), Hobart (27 March) and Melbourne (28 March).
