Posts tagged "vocational education and training"

Skills and Training Minister Brendan O'Connor said the reforms would set the vocational education and training sector up for the next generation of workers.

Many small business owners are concerned about VET. Let's hand it over to industry associations and those in the know, writes Peter Strong.

Under the program, Victorian apprentices and trainees will receive 1,500 opportunities each year for four years to work on some of the state’s largest construction projects.

The federal government has paid $500 million to businesses under its apprenticeship and training subsidies program, Michaelia Cash says.

Apprentice wages will be supported through to March next year in a $1.5 billion extension to subsidies that will also see medium sized businesses benefit.

TV tradie Scott Cam has defended the amount he is being paid as Australia’s careers ambassador.

Incentive payments for businesses looking to employ apprentices would double to $8,000 per placement under a $525 million government proposal.

Former Jobs and Innovation Minister Michaelia Cash has been appointed Australia's new Small Business Minister as part of a broad reshuffle

A Sydney caravan manufacturing business is struggling to fill 30 trade-focused vacancies and experts say failures in the Vocational Educati…

  In the last 12 months, Australian governments of all persuasions have alluded to a crisis in how we prepare young people for trade and te…