A program that pays mid-career professionals a salary while they train to become TAFE teachers has seen a 97 per cent retention rate in its first year of operating – and it's not just because of the wage, organisers say. ...

Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) is working to develop a National Skills Taxonomy (NST) to enable a more flexible and responsive skills system. The Australian Universities Accord identified the NST as crucial for creating a 'joined-up' education system, where higher ...

An association that advocates for geographically isolated students and parents has called for updates to payments and processes they say would give rural and remote apprentices the best shot at succeeding in trades. The Isolated Children's Parents' Association met in ...

A $35m investment will be made into a new aged care, disability support and mental health care and support TAFE centre in Cairns in an effort to fill gaps in industries facing skills shortages. The boost comes as part of ...

A new representative body for vocational education and training will launch next month with the aim of giving education providers a reliable badge of quality to set them apart from dodgy practices in the industry. QVET – a member-based, non-profit ...

The number of students enrolled in government-funded vocational education and training (VET) courses has surpassed 1.26 million under a national push to address critical skill shortages, as the Coalition ramps up attacks on Labor’s enrolment levels and signature fee-free TAFE ­program. ...

The NSW state government will commit $83.1m over the next four years to help convert casual teachers to permanent employment in a bid to retain expert TAFE teachers. Currently, an estimated 48 per cent of TAFE NSW’s teaching workforce does not have permanent employment, ...

New NSW TAFE teachers will start out on salaries over $92,000 under a deal inked between the Minns government and teachers’ union. A new one-year enterprise agreement will see teachers’ wages and work-related allowance lifted by four per cent, a pay rise the Minns government says ...

The plummeting number of apprentices and school-leavers studying trades will cripple the Minns government’s plans to build 75,000 homes a year, a peak housing body has warned. The gloomy forecast is contained in a new report from the Master Builders ...

The Climate Council has said all petrol and diesel car sales should be banned by 2035 if Australia wants to have a 'zero-emissions fleet' by 2050, but the leading independent skills training body raised alarm bells about EV workforce demands. ...