Skills

Business & Economics
A sustainable solution to Australia’s engineering skills shortage
To solve the skills shortage for good, we need to inspire a stronger connection with engineering

Education
Skills education needs action, not more talk
About a quarter of Australians are in vocational education but the current system is flawed and selling us short at a critical time. Here’s how to fix it

Education
Time to create universities of applied sciences?
A new vision for Australia’s public TAFEs could deliver the skills and applied research linked to industry and business urgently needed to transition the economy

Health & Medicine
Hiring for personality, training for skill
As workplaces demand more of their employees, having only technical skills or expertise is no longer enough. Instead, the emphasis is on multi-skilled individuals making up a team

Education
Narrow training sells students short
The crisis in Australia’s training sector means TAFEs need to develop their own courses tailored to an unpredictable future