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Recommendations for Australian VET System Reform and VET Workforce Blueprint

Vocational Education and Training / By

Australia’s Vocational Education and Training (VET) system is indeed complex and complicated, with a multitude of providers, qualifications, and funding arrangements. This blog post and draft towards a paper, is written by Wendy Perry, Managing Director, Workforce BluePrint; Entrepreneurship Facilitator – Switch Start Scale; Facilitator, Sea to Valley Startups; with 28+ years’ experience in VET […]

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Opportunities for Education, Small Business, Startups and Scaleups with AUKUS

Innovation, International / By

When you have parents who are Londoners and 10-pound POMS the connection to the UK is tangible, and with recent trips to the USA exploring sister city connections the AUKUS deal makes sense, especially because Adelaide’s sister city Austin in Texas, has another sister city which is London. AUKUS (Australia, UK, and USA) is a

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Which countries are leading VET/TVET?

International, Vocational Education and Training / By

Many countries have long-term national skills development plans to address the changing needs of their economies and workforce.  Here are some examples: Singapore: The Singaporean government’s SkillsFuture initiative aims to provide citizens with the skills and training they need to stay employable and relevant in a constantly changing job market. South Korea: The Korean government

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State Budget 2022-23 – Government of South Australia – Digging into the Detail

Business, Entrepreneurship, Innovation / By

Reading through 1000+ pages of budget papers take some time to digest what the measures are aiming to achieve. When you look at Ministerial responsibilities it is interesting to see the programs that people are responsible for, what they are called, and where there is some crossover.  More to come on this topic with changes

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Now and Next Workforce Innovation Fund to Address Short and Long-Term Workforce Supply

Funding, Innovation / By

With 27+ years’ experience in this field, based in Australia as well as working with 30-40 countries internationally, you don’t have to ask twice to have a fund designed that builds upon excellent aspects of initiatives from the past, is fit for purpose, and considers not only workforce issues now but for the next future

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Extraordinary work across all corners of the globe

Entrepreneurship, International, Speaking / By

Absolute inspiration, incredible and goose bump inducing – it’s never too early and never too late – extraordinary work, across all corners of the globe. https://soundcloud.com/user-495962922/the-inshow-interview-ep-27 I got so much out of our chat, with David and Troy from The InShow podcast, as it was mind opening, highlighted the importance of networking, having people around

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Developing Northern Australia – workforce multiplier

Conference, Entrepreneurship, Speaking / By

Australia’s far north attracts more than 22 million domestic and international overnight visitors each year. The tourism industry contributes $1.2 billion directly into the Queensland economy – 3.7% of the state’s gross state product (GSP) and $11.6 billion to the state’s economy (7.5%). In a strategy to help regional economies fully leverage their unique strengths,

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