People with a disability a solution for skill shortage crisis
18 May 2005
Australia’s rapidly growing hospitality industry is facing a critical skills shortage as experts estimate the creation of 65,000 new jobs within the next five years*. Bucking the trend fa...
Training increases job confidence for Indigenous learners
18 April 2005
Nine out of ten Indigenous Australians who have undergone recent training report increased confidence because they can communicate better with people and feel better about themselves generally...
Fulbright winner finds inspiration in the desert
18 April 2005
Alice Springs educator Metta Young has been named the 2005 winner of the Fulbright Professional Award in Vocational Education and Training (VET). The award, which is sponsored by ANTA, will...
Indigenous training review frames skills agenda
14 February 2005
Indigenous Australians are turning to vocational education and training (VET) in increasing numbers but their completion and employment rates are still poor compared to non-Indigenous Australi...
Networking pays for RTOs and industry
27 January 2005
Registered training organisations (RTOs) are reaping the benefits of forging networks with industry to improve assessment design and practices. Nine ‘assessor networks’ are profiled in a ne...
New national training plan wants more jobs for people with a disability
3 December 2004
More skills and more jobs is the focus of a new national plan for people with a disability launched today on International Day of People with a Disability. Australian Disability Training Ad...
ANTA moves in Brisbane
29 November 2004
The Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) has moved its Brisbane staff to new premises, following the expiry of the lease at its previous location. From Monday, November 29, ANTA wi...
Strathalbyn local’s training passion brings national success
23 November 2004
A 21-year-old mechanical engineer with a passion for training has won the New Apprenticeships Apprentice of the Year Award at the 2004 Australian Training Awards. Brad Donaldson from the Ad...
Mackay technician secures national award
23 November 2004
A 23-year-old electrical technician who dreams of running his own security business is Australia’ best Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student. Brendan Bishop from Advanced Alarms Mac...
Trainee with local passion wins national title
23 November 2004
A young local with a passion for helping her community has won the New Apprenticeships Trainee of the Year Award at the 2004 Australian Training Awards. Samantha Johnson from Madora receive...
Education and experience puts national training award nominee a “choice” cut above the rest
23 November 2004
A former butcher, now responsible for a multi-million dollar meat operation, has won the Vocational Student of the Year Award at the 2004 Australian Training Award. Greg Wareham, 36, from t...
Adelaide glass manufacturer scores national training award
23 November 2004
An Adelaide manufacturer that aligns training to business objectives has won a major award at the 2004 Australian Training Awards. ACI Glass Packaging, based in the Adelaide suburb of West...
A national “thumbs up” for local nursery that thrives on training
23 November 2004
A local nursery that’s achieved higher productivity, improved profitability and greater teamwork through training has been crowned the Prime Minister’s Small Employer of the Year at the 2004 A...
Top of the class honours for regional New South Wales at Australian Training Awards
23 November 2004
TAFE NSW’s North Coast Institute of TAFE, headquartered in Port Macquarie, is Australia’s best large training provider. The institute claimed the title at Australian Training Awards at the ...
Corks pop for South Australian wine trainer
23 November 2004
A South Australian wine training specialist has been named Australia’s best small training provider. River Murray Training (RMT), headquartered in Berri, won the Small Training Provider of...
Ballina High tops the class at Australian Training Awards
23 November 2004
A high school located in northern New South Wales received top honours at the 2004 Australian Training Awards held in Melbourne tonight. Ballina High School, a comprehensive co-educational ...
WA training brings home national award
23 November 2004
An innovative training program for Western Australia’s prison community received top honours at the 2004 Australian Training Awards held in Melbourne tonight. The WA Department of Justice w...
Business leader gets personal on skills, jobs for people with a disability
23 November 2004
An award-winning South Australian business and education leader will draw on personal experience in a new national role pursuing better training and job outcomes for Australians with a disabil...
ANTA to be abolished
22 October 2004
Read an update from ANTA interim CEO Paul Byrne 22 October 2004 Read the media release on the Prime Minister’s website. Refer back to the ANTA website for updates.
Box Hill balancing act brings national recognition
14 October 2004
A local training provider that’s balancing the needs of its students, staff and industry partners is in line for a national training award. Box Hill Institute is a finalist in the Large T...
Indigenous training guide gets into it
24 September 2004
“It’s really cool”—that’s the verdict on a new guide for teachers and trainers working with indigenous learners. Gettin’ into it! – Working with Indigenous learners provides practical adv...
New skills body takes up the manufacturing case
16 September 2004
Australia’s most valuable industry—our multi-billion dollar manufacturing sector—has a new body to tackle its skills issues. The new Manufacturing Industry Skills Council will be the voice ...
New council to build property industry skills
9 September 2004
A new training body will tackle the skill issues faced by the quarter-of-a-million Australian businesses and their employees who design, build, maintain, protect, manage and sell Australia’s b...
National training upgrade for timber industry
26 August 2004
A move is underway to update and upgrade the training available to Australia’s multi-million dollar timber industry. The Australian National Training Authority is consulting forest and fore...
Training chiefs tap into WA skills scene
18 August 2004
The nation’s peak skills body—the Australian National Training Authority—will tap into the West Australian skills scene this week in a three-day visit. The ANTA Board and executive team wil...
ANTA appoints interim CEO
12 August 2004
The Australian National Training Authority has appointed former ANTA general manager Paul Byrne as interim chief executive officer. ANTA Board chair David Hind says Mr Byrne will fill the p...
Letter to the editor of Campus Review
10 August 2004
Skills planning in the Australian vocational education and training (VET) sector is a multi-layered process drawing on increasingly varied and complex sources of research data and information,...
Board accepts CEO resignation
2 August 2004
The Board of the Australian National Training Authority has accepted with regret the resignation of chief executive officer Janina Gawler. Chairman David Hind thanked Ms Gawler for the ene...
Agribusiness industries gain a new voice on training
2 July 2004
The people and businesses who feed Australia, from farm to table, have a new voice on their training needs. A new body --- the Agri-Food Skills Council – has been formed to boost training i...
Joint release by ANTA Ministerial Council: Action agenda set for training
11 June 2004
We have today endorsed the first of a series of action plans to make the vocational education and training (VET) system work better for Australian businesses, students and apprentices, and com...
ANTA MINCO on Training Package review
11 June 2004
We have today endorsed improvements to national Training Packages that will support VET practitioners in improving outcomes for learners. For students, employees, and employers the improve...
Letter to the editor of The Australian
10 June 2004
Connecting work and learning (Graduates ‘failing the uni of life’, June 10) is the essence of vocational education and training (VET). The 1.8 million Australians undertaking VET with TAFE col...
Letter to the editor of the Australian Financial Review
9 June 2004
I welcome the positive and informed input of John Hewson (AFR June 4) to the national debate about skilling Australians for a skilled Australia. With international trade barriers falling and a...
Letter to the editor of the Herald Sun
1 June 2004
Let’s talk factually about Australia’s national vocational education and training (VET) system. (Herald Sun May 29) Today, more than one in eight working age Australians (1.7 million people) a...
Burgeoning services sector gets new voice on training
15 January 2004
Australia’s burgeoning services industry has a new and powerful voice on vocational education and training (VET) - Service Industries Skills Australia (SISA). SISA’s role will be to channel...
New higher education qualification - the associate degree
10 October 2003
A new higher education qualification --- the associate degree --- is now part of the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). A guideline has been issued for the two-year qualification, w...
Australia’s skill needs: how they are changing and what it means for training
10 October 2003
Australia’s skill needs, how they are changing, what it means for training: it’s in a new national skills report. The report is the first edition of an annual report to be produced as part of...
Letter to the editor of The Courier-Mail
6 August 2003
The Courier-Mail is right in recognising that the ageing workforce and planning ahead for future skill needs are critical issues, both economically and socially. (The Courier-Mail, 4-08-03). W...
Letter to the editor of The Australian Financial Review
6 August 2003
Paul Monk writes that "Higher education is not right for everyone" (AFR 4/8/03). Fortunately, vocational education and training opens the gates of further education for all Australians. And th...
Union leader joins ANTA Board
31 July 2003
Australian National Training Authority Board (ANTA) chairman Stuart Hornery today welcomed the appointment of union leader Julius Roe to the ANTA Board. Mr Roe is national president of the ...
Tomorrow’s training workforce: the planning begins
31 July 2003
Australia’s training professionals of 2013: work has started on finding out who they are, what they will need to know, and how to “grow” them. Australia has at least 32,000 TAFE teachers, a...
Literacy web site goes upmarket
31 July 2003
All the latest adult literacy and numeracy resources, research, professional development, and funding are now accessible via the Department of Education, Science and Training new-look Literacy...