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IBSA’s Environment Scan 2010 now available

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 Posted in Resources, Training | No Comments »

IBSA’s environment scan (Escan) gathers annual industry advice on the skills and workforce development needs of businesses in IBSA’s six industry sectors. Following validation by the Sector Advisory Committees and approval by the IBSA Board, Escan 2010 was submitted to ...

Lean Skills in the Office

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 Posted in Resources, Training | No Comments »

  The report on Lean Skills across all the IBSA Training Packages is now available on the IBSA website. Lean has been successfully implemented in manufacturing industries for the last 25 years, but only recently have organisations begun using Lean office ...

Student outcomes from PPP participation

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 Posted in Article, Training | No Comments »

Source: http://www.licensinglinenews.com/ The National Centre for Vocational Education Research has released a publication on the outcomes for students who completed their vocational education and training (VET) under the Productivity Places Program (PPP) during 2008. The report collected information about the level and type ...

Sport and Recreation Workforce Development

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Posted in Resources, Skills, Training | No Comments »

Service Skills Australia (SSA) has published a scoping report outlining its vision for a nationwide workforce development strategy for the sport and recreation sector, and is calling for industry feedback. Read more

Horizon.au predictions on ICT

Thursday, October 1st, 2009 Posted in Article, Innovation | No Comments »

Second regional Horizon Report predicts six areas of emerging technologies that will impact on education in Australia over the next 5 years: Mobile devices, private clouds, open content, virtual worlds, location-based learning and smart objects and devices. Launched September 25th in Brisbane ...

Education at a Glance 2009: OECD Indicators

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 Posted in Article, Resources | No Comments »

OECD 8/9/09 Across OECD countries, governments are seeking policies to make education more effective while searching for additional resources to meet the increasing demand for education. The 2009 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators enables countries to see themselves in the ...

Foundations for the Future: Findings and Recommendations

Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Resources, Training | No Comments »

Skills Australia's position paper 'Foundations for the Future: Proposals for the Governance, Architecture and Market Design of the National Training System' has been released, reporting findings and recommendations for a new governance framework for the National Training System. The paper ...