Welcome to Sydney Institute Blogs

Archive for the ‘Skills’ Category

Fire crews go online for new skills

Monday, March 26th, 2012 Posted in Article, Skills | No Comments »

    Fire and Rescue NSW regional emergency crews are going online to develop critical skills in fire investigation in an innovative new training program. Using live streaming video camera technology, regional fire investigators will be able to develop skills in fire investigation ...

Online learning supports carers

Monday, March 26th, 2012 Posted in Skills, Training | No Comments »

      Community support workers may soon be going online to learn the essential skills for administering medication to those in their care. “With many support workers living and working some distance from their employer’s base, the Smart Medicine project is looking at ...

Skills shortages: prevalence, causes, remedies and consequences for Australian businesses

Monday, March 26th, 2012 Posted in Skills | No Comments »

    Josh Healy, Kostas Mavromaras, Peter J Sloane  Publication date: 20 February 2012 Revised: 22 March 2012  This report aims to improve our understanding of the causes of skill shortages, the way businesses respond and the short-term consequences of skill shortages. Reponses from small- ...

CS&HISC (Revised) Resources

Monday, March 26th, 2012 Posted in Resources, Skills | No Comments »

    Resources from the Community Services & Health Industry Skills Council (CS&HISC) are available for immediate download, some of which include: assessment tools, recognition assessment, some learner and assessment guides, brochures, videos and publications.  For more information or to download these revised ...

NBN-Enabled Education and Skills Services Program

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 Posted in Article, Skills | No Comments »

    The NBN-Enabled Education and Skills Services (NBN-EESS) Program is a new Australian Government initiative aimed at supporting the development and trialling of online education and skills services that take advantage of the high speed broadband connections being made available through ...

MSS11 Sustainability Training Package

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 Posted in Skills, Training Package | No Comments »

 MSA has developed in-depth high level qualifications in sustainable operations and environmental monitoring and technology to help enterprises make their operations more sustainable and environmentally viable. The new Sustainability Training Package (MSS11) was endorsed by the National Quality Council on ...

PMA08 Chemicals, Hydrocarbons and Refining Training Package

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 Posted in Skills, Training Package | No Comments »

New and revised units of competency are being developed for PMA08 to ensure adequate coverage of the primary/upstream metalliferous processing sector. The NQC has endorsed the proposed changes to the PMA08v2 Training Package, as outlined in the Case for Endorsement. These ...

MEM05 Metal and Engineering Training Package

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 Posted in Skills, Training Package | No Comments »

 The MEM05 Metal and Engineering Training Package (Version 6) is now available on training.gov.au

Resources available for Vocational Graduate Certificate in Adult LLN Practice (TAE70111)

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 Posted in Skills, Training, Uncategorized | No Comments »

 IBSA is developing freely available support resources for every unit of competency in this qualification. IBSA has now completed support resources for six units in the VGC qualification; four core and two elective units. The three remaining elective units support resources ...

IBSA Skills for Sustainability Resource

Monday, December 19th, 2011 Posted in Skills, Training Package | No Comments »

   A suite of teaching and learning resources to support the Sustainable Practice Skill Set from the TAE10 Training and Education Training Package: TAESUS501A Analyse and apply sustainability skills to learning programs ·         Facilitator and Participant Guides ·         Industry Supplements  TAESUS502A Identify and apply current ...