TAFE NSW and industry association Hair&Beauty Australia are working together to address skills shortages in the hairdressing industry by offering a new traineeship program.
The government and Labor are at odds over how many young Australians can really be enticed to take up apprenticeships over the next year.
Giving high school students access to fee-free apprenticeships and traineeships provides young people with valuable job experience even before they graduate. Beekeeper Oden Boulter made the most of it.
A new NSW government program aims to close the gender gap in the trades industry.
Campuses in Sydney’s south-west and west are bracing for the worst of feared job cuts after TAFE NSW released documents that show a net loss of 678 positions.
Starting with a pilot program in the state’s north,the NSW government is rolling out new school-based traineeships to students close to finishing high school.
Within weeks of making an offer to buy Scone TAFE,Racing NSW met with the state government and a decision to sell the site was approved on the same day as the meeting.
A national review of aged care skills training has proposed a new qualification that will allow students,for the first time,to specialise in both aged care and disability support.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejikilian and Skills and Tertiary Education Minister Geoff Lee will urge the federal government to extend income-contingent student loans to vocational students.
Western Sydney University chancellor Peter Shergold the future of the workforce was uncertain and people needed “lifelong career advice” as they navigated changes throughout their working lives”.
The economist who designed the student loan system has supported an Australian Productivity Commission recommendation it be extended to the vocational education and training sector.