An estimated 350 invited guests attended a gala dinner at the historical Aviation Heritage Museum on Saturday 13 September 2003 to celebrate vocational education and training achievements at the 48th Northern Territory Vocational Training Awards. The gala dinner was nestled amongst the museum’s centrepiece, a USAF B-52G Stratofortress bomber, the giant aircraft is nicknamed "Darwin's Pride". The Awards aim to promote and showcase continuous improvements and best practice in the Northern Territory Vocational Education and Training sector. The rousing crowd acknowledged and applaud the outstanding achievement of Employers, New Apprentices, Student and Registered Training Organisations (RTO). The winners will represent the Northern Territory at the Australian Training Awards on the Gold Coast in November 2003.
The Traditional Credit Union (TCU) was successful in winning the Employer of the Year Award category. This award recognises business enterprise that has demonstrated outstanding commitment and achievements in the provision of nationally recognised training for employees. TCU received a $2,000 professional development grant.
Traditional Credit Union is a not for profit Organisation which was incorporated in Dec 1994. The Credit Union was created after the major banks withdrew their services from remote communities. This left the aboriginal people with no way to access a banking service. The Aboriginal Elders of several communities discussed the prospect of aboriginal people creating their own Credit Union. From this the dream, Traditional Credit Union was made a reality.
Today Traditional Credit Union has grown to include a Head Office located in Darwin and 10 remote branches & agencies. These include branches in Milingimbi, Galiwinku, Gapuwiyak, Ramingining, Wadeye, Maningrida, Gunbalunya, Ngukurr, Numbulwar and two agencies in Warruwi and Milikapiti.
All remote branches and agencies are managed and staffed by aboriginal people who are proud to be able to offer a full range of banking services to their community.
The Department of Education, Science and Training (Northern Territory) arranged in Partnership with The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations and the Northern Territory Department of Employment, Education and Training to bring in all Traditional Credit Union staff to attend the Northern Territory Vocational Training Awards Ceremony.
Congratulations Team!!
Traditional Credit Union Staff – Winner of the Employer of the Year category.From left to right, Roslyn Wunungmurra (Gapuwiyak), Lizzie Mindhili Durrurrnga (Ramingining), Zelda Guyula (Gapuwiyak), Henry Djerringal (Director, Milingimbi – Traditional Owner – Founding Member), Sally Pointon (Head Office Training & Development Manager), Linda Malibirr (Ramingining) & Ethalita Bading (Milikapiti).
The winner’s in each category were.
| Category |
Winner |
| Northern Territory Training Award |
YBE & Nabalco Operator Training School (YNOTS)
New Education Pathways |
| Bill Mc Larent VET In Schools Excellence Award |
Centralian College |
| Employer of the Year |
Traditional Credit Union |
| Training Provider of the Year (NT Finalist) |
Centralian College |
| Vocational Student of the Year |
Heather Wilson, Alice Springs
RTO: Centralian College
Field of study: Community Services - childcare |
| Adrian Wagg Memorial Award for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Student of the Year |
Robert Campbell, Katherine
Employer: Kalano Building Company/Burridj Aboriginal Group Training Company
RTO: Waikan Employment & Training Services
Field of study: Carpentry |
| New Apprenticeships (Trainee) of the Year |
Camille Lew Fatt, Darwin
Employer: Group Training Northern Territory/ NTU
RTO: Group Training Northern Territory
Field of study: Business Administration |
| Austin Asche New Apprentices (Apprentice) of the Year |
Daniel Lewis, Darwin
Employer: Power & Water/Group Training Northern Territory
RTO: Northern Territory University/Training Solutions
Field of study: Electrical Fitter/Mechanic |
The July edition of Training Talk contained an article covering the Rare Trades exhibition at the National Museum of Australia  . The exhibition, sponsored by Dorma Hotels, has been a huge success and will remain on show in Canberra until 12 October 2003. It will then travel to the South Australian Maritime Museum, Adelaide, from 11 December– 24 April 2004; and the Workshops Rail Museum, Ipswich, from 11 June 2004 – 10 October 2004. |
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Rare Trades explores humans as tool makers and tool users; the process of transforming raw materials into useful objects; the passing on of secret and not so secret trade knowledge; how technological advances relate to these old trades – and our feelings for them today. A bladesmith, blacksmith, stone tool maker, craypot maker, sailmaker, weaver, clockmaker, shoemaker and wheelwright are among other trades featured.
Rare Trades is curated by the National Museum’s Sophie Jensen and Mark Thomson, author of the book Rare Trades and the best-selling book Blokes and Sheds.
For more information visit www.nma.gov.au/aboutus/media/media_kit/rare_trades2 or contact 02 6208 5000.
MILLINER - JEAN CARROLL
BLADESMITH - MIKE PETERSEN
HORSE COLLAR MAKER - TIM PEEL
Images provided by the National Museum of Australia Website. http://www.nma.gov.au/aboutus/media/media_kit/rare_trades2/traders
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, as well as teachers, trainers, assessors, and developers in public and private training providers and enterprises. Over the next decade, many of them will retire, taking their knowledge with them and leaving skill gaps.
A project about to start will establish nationally for the first time:
- who they are
- how they are managed now and
- what needs to happen over the next five to 10 years.
Australian National Training Authority Board member John Smyth says, “Like many industries across Australia, we have an ageing workforce and constantly changing technology, an accelerating trend towards flexible employment with more casuals and part-timers, globalisation and increasing market competition.
“Over the next six months we will assess the impact of all of this on our frontline people. Only then can we work out what needs to be done so that apprentices, trainees, students, workers and employers are getting the best training possible from quality professionals.”
A final report is due by the end of December 2003.
This exciting project, commissioned by the Transition from School Taskforce of the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) and the Enterprise and Career Foundation (ECEF), aims to develop and test a blueprint for the development of career services and products for children, youth and adults across Australia.
Although there are many excellent career programs and services currently operating throughout the country, at the present time, there is no 'active' national framework that specifies the competencies that all Australians need to acquire in order to build their careers.
The Australian Blueprint will assist career practitioners, working in diverse settings, to offer services and products that empower people to better manage their lifelong learning and work. It will help career service providers to determine which competencies are required by their clients, and to ensure that career management skills are developed and recorded in a systematic way. It will also provide a system for coding career information resources.
For more information on the Australian Blueprint for Career Development go to http://www.milesmorgan.com.au/ .
Automated buildings, wireless personal area networks, radio frequency identity tags. They’re all part of the technological road ahead for Australian industry and a new report says we need to start planning now.
A report, available now at http://www.sharedtechnology.net.au/ , identifies the new, common technologies that will be used over the next five years in a number of key industries: automotive, building and construction, electronics, engineering, electrical information, technology, and telecommunications.
Funded by the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA), the report says employers, training professionals, and vocational education and training policymakers and providers should be thinking ahead now and preparing for skill needs.
Ms Gawler said the report’s findings would assist developers of national training products as well as feeding into the development of action plans for the next national strategy for vocational education and training 2004-2010.
Australian training providers are boosting their profiles, generating new business, and developing staff through a new style of industry partnership, research has found.
Their industry partners are also improving their competitive edge through their relationship with providers.
Case studies, and a free downloadable checklist, are now available at http://www.anta.gov.au/ to guide other training providers in forming their own partnerships.
The findings and tools are from a recent national investigation commissioned by the Australian National Training Authority’s (ANTA) enterprise and training provider working group. The investigation looked at registered training organisations and the new roles they have been developing for themselves over the past decade as vocational education and training “intermediaries”.
For case studies and the checklist go to http://www.anta.gov.au/ and click on the Partners in Training icon on the home page.
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Australian National Training Authority Board (ANTA) chairman Stuart Hornery recently welcomed the appointment of Julius Roe to the ANTA Board.
Mr Roe is national president of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union and has been involved in vocational education and training for more than a decade.
Mr Hornery said Julius would bring extensive background knowledge of competency-based training and its value to individual workers and workforce development generally. |
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“Julius has been in the engine room as the national VET system and Training Packages have developed over the past decade,” Mr Hornery said.
“He brings to the Board the employee’s perspective, which will help us tackle two of our main objectives for 2004-2010 – having a highly skilled workforce, and putting individuals and employers at the centre of VET.”
For further information on ANTA see http://www.anta.gov.au/abtBoard.asp
A Leaders in Careers forum was held in Canberra on Wednesday 20th August 2003. The forum brought together a group of identified leaders from industry, business and the school sector to develop strategies for schools and industry to work together to ensure that all students have access to a comprehensive range of career information, in particular in areas of skills shortages, to help them make well-informed decisions about future career directions.
Forum nominations were gathered by a reference group which was established to guide the directions of the forum. Forum delegates were drawn from a range of organisations including: the Australian Retailers Association; Restaurant and Caterers’ Australia; the Housing Industry Association; the Master Builder’s Association; Rural Skills Australia; the Business Council of Australia; the Career Industry Council of Australia; the Australian Parents’ Council; and principals from Government, Independent and the Catholic secondary school sectors.
A key outcome of the national forum was the creation of a strong cohort of school principals, career experts and business and industry leaders who will act as ambassadors and promoters of the case for high quality career education for all young people. A number of delegates agreed to form a sub-group to pursue the forum outcomes.
Another key outcome was the development of a set of strategies to support the effective implementation of career education and services in schools. These strategies will outline the way forward for industry and schools to work together to improve the delivery of career education in schools. A report is being prepared.
Positive examples of career education models in schools and industry/school partnerships were gathered from participants prior to the forum and circulated as part of the forum papers.
Further information about the forum can be obtained from Tonya Hassett tonya.hassett@dest.gov.au or Paul Beerworth paul.beerworth@dest.gov.au in the Transitions Branch of DEST.
From left: Colin Johnson, Managing Director, FJ Precision; Bob Hoogland Technical Training Manager Qantas Airways Ltd; and Frances Regan, National Electrical and Communications Association.
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is rapidly changing the way we look at and participate in education and training. To make sure Australia is positioned to obtain the benefits of education technology the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) is conducting a review into Australia’s Future Using Education Technology.
The review will look at the current uses and providers of education technology as well as examining potential and emerging applications. Innovative educational approaches will be explored as well as the infrastructure and expertise required for Australia to effectively use ICT in delivering education and training in the future.
There will be particular focus on the needs of Indigenous people, access for remote/regional Australians and how to best position Australians to engage international markets in education and training.
The review will be complementary to the work being carried out by DEST on the Action Plan for the Information Economy, due for release later this year. Work being undertaken by associated Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) and the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) committees and other key groups will also be complementary to the review.
The review, which is being conducted by Mr Geoff Spring, a consultant to the Department, opened with online consultations followed by face-to-face consultations in each capital city and a number of regional centres. Consultations commenced in Adelaide on Friday 8 August 2003 and will be completing in Canberra on Monday 22 September 2003. While most face-to-face consultations have been completed the Community of Practice online discussion forum will remain open until 4 October 2003. The Community of Practice online discussion forum contains summaries from each of the consultations as they are held. Registration is required to be involved in the online discussion forum. To register go to www.dest.gov.au/AFUET/community.htm
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Did you know that...
- More than one in ten Australians aged over 15 studied in the public vocational education and training system in 2002.
- For teenagers (15-19 yo) participation rates exceeded one in four.
- A total of 1.69 million students were enrolled during the year.
- Management and commerce courses were the most popular, followed by engineering and related technologies and society and culture courses.
- Training activity associated with national training packages continued to increase, with two out of every five public VET students undertaking national training packages.
- Participation in VET-in-schools and New Apprenticeships continued to grow.
These are just a few of the many interesting statistics recently reported by the National Centre for Education Research in its report Australian VET Statistics: Students and Courses 2002.
For more information, click here:
http://www.ncver.edu.au/statistics/vet/ann02/glance02/index.htm
3 February 2004
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