A Brunswick cafe has begun a mentoring program with local schools,training teens on the espresso machine and finer points of hospitality.
Australia’s $3.4 billion apprenticeship scheme has led to poor training and high dropout rates,construction industry representatives say.
Builders who purchase licences from unscrupulous private colleges will be asked to demonstrate their skills to the building commissioner.
Dozens of staff and hundreds of students will learn on Thursday whether the program based in Wantirna will be discontinued at the end of the year.
At CathWest Innovation College,students study the school curriculum three days a week to earn their HSC but also spend one day learning on the job as part of an apprenticeship,and another day at TAFE.
The federal government wants training for millions of Australians who lack the basic literacy and numeracy skills required to gain better jobs and increase their wages.
The money is a bid to boost WA’s slammed construction workforce as the state’s housing sector crumbles over a lack of labour and soaring materials costs.
Remote learning has made it easier for students to study passion subjects outside their school.
Skills Minister Brendan O’Connor will announce the extension on Wednesday,along with a promise to wave $1.6 million in indexation fees on loans for about 6,400 students hit with historical debts earlier this year due to an IT system glitch.
More than 10,000 students have been hit unexpectedly with historical VET debts by the tax office after an IT glitch meant they were held up in internal systems for as long as five years.
“You felt like you were a professional player going out to a game,” says Matt Tyquin,the globe’s best trainee butcher.