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Training
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS ANNOUNCED NEW INCENTIVES TO FUND 80,000 ADDITIONAL APPRENTICES OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS IN AREAS WHERE THERE ARE SKILL SHORTAGES.
Industry welcomes $525Tmillion skills package
HE GOVERNMENT WILL commit A further $90 million will be used to promote a over $525 million to ensure Australia’s nationwide approach to skills development, in- vocational education and training cluding through better identifying areas of skills (VET) sector delivers skills critical to shortages, and to enhance the role of industry in the economy. designing training courses by establishing a Na-
Details of the Delivering Skills for Today and tional Skills Commission.
AT A GLANCE
National Commissioner
$48.3million to establish a National Skills Commission and National Skills Commissioner, which will put industry at the forefront of workforce needs.
The National Skills Commission will provide strengthened industry leadership in determining and implementing priorities for the VET sector.
Training Hubs
The Australian Government will pilot ten Industry Training Hubs across Australia
over three years to reposition VET as a first choice option and build connections between industry and schools through local workforce solutions. The Training Hubs will encourage young people to build skills and choose occupations in demand in their region and help eliminate persistent high youth unemployment in regional areas.
Tomorrow package were announced as part of the 2019/20 Federal Budget.
Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education, Michaelia Cash, said the package responds to the expert review into Australia’s VET sector led by Steven Joyce.
“This Package will ensure Australians develop the skills they need to succeed in a changing workplace and will provide businesses including those in rural and regional areas with a pipeline of qualified workers they need to grow and pros- per,” Senator Cash said.
The package also includes $32.4 million to raise the profile of the VET sector and im- prove career advice to young Australians and workers transitioning careers by establishing a National Careers Institute and a National Careers Ambassador.
An estimated $10 million will be used to de- velop skills in areas of need by building innova- tive partnerships between schools, employers and the VET sector including a new competitive grants program.
Cash said the government will establish 10 training hubs in regional areas with high youth unemployment to create better linkages be- tween schools and local industry. This initiative will cost $50.6 million.
Finally, $44 million will be used to stream- line incentives for employers of apprentices and trainees and to modernise the skills needs list.
She said the package provides clear and reli- able careers guidance to inform study choices, provides foundational skills so no one is left be- hind and it will get more apprentices in jobs in areas of demand.
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