New workforce strategy targets participation - and targets

Skills Australia has jumped on the targets bandwagon with its new workforce development strategy.

Targets to increase qualification numbers are all very well, but we also need a target to ensure they're used more effectively, according to Skills Australia. The workforce advisory body has called on COAG to adopt yet another target - to raise the country's aggregate workforce participation rate by 4 percentage points to 69 per cent by 2025. The new target is one of 12 recommendations Skills Australia has offered in its national workforce development strategy, 'Australian Workforce Futures', which it released early this month. It said without a significant increase in workforce participation...