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The number of women in the manual trades in Australia has barely budged in the last 20 years.

Thousands of Victorians will be trained for free under a Victorian budget initiative to fill widening skills shortages, in part created by the government’s election-year construction blitz.

Unconscious bias training programs at selected organisations alone will not reduce racial harassment and discrimination. Starbucks’ employees will continue to operate in an environment that reinforces racial disparities. How far can the impact of half-day diversity training take them?

The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry says it is "unacceptable" that funds from the federal government's "Skilling Australians" fund are not flowing through to the states as planned after the $1.5 billion commitment to apprenticeships was outlined in the 2017 federal budget. 

Australian employers and students will have time to consider the federal government’s proposed changes of funding to the VET sector this w…

The number of people starting apprenticeships and traineeships is falling, with 8600 fewer people commencing an apprenticeship or traineesh…

  I saw the movie The Intern with Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro in the cinema when it came out late in 2015. It brought tears to my eye…

Recent weeks have produced various horror stories of the workings of dodgy private providers of vocational education and training, including…

The number of people starting apprenticeships and traineeships has increased, according to figures published last week by the National Centr…

In the age of the internet, more knowledge than we ever could have imagined is at our fingertips. The intelligence and algorithms of search…

Maths in the workplace “is not straightforward” and goes “well beyond” a command of “core mathematical content”. Australia’s c…

Is entrepreneurship something that can be taught? Travel entrepreneur Peter Wade thinks so and he is willing to put his money where his mout…