Nimble News 26 February 2025
- FFTITC Team
- Feb 25
- 4 min read
Calling all apprentices, trainees and vocational students and businesses, applications are NOW OPEN for the 2025 WA Training Awards!
The WA Training Awards are the State's top awards program, recognising excellence in vocational educational and training (VET).
FFTITC loves the WA Training Awards as it highlights remarkable students who after completing a VET qualification, have gone on to achieve great careers and have made a difference to themselves and others. We also love that it highlights employers who have committed themselves to professionally developing their staff, and therefore their business.
The Awards are inspirational, and it would be great to see more applicants from the food, fibre and timber industries.
So, if you know of a VET superstar (individual or organisation), encourage them to enter. It really is a worthwhile experience. Plus there are fantastic prizes and accolades.
Applications close 5.00 pm, 11 April 2025. For more information, click here
Here is a collection of news that we get from our network that we think you'll want to know about. We hope you enjoy.
International Women’s Day event – “Women in Wood Fibre” 13 March 2025, Albany.
In celebration of International Women's Day 2025, Australian Bluegum Plantations are hosting an event which highlights and celebrates the contributions and achievements of women in the forestry industry, past present and future. For event details, please click link below.
The Gender Economic Equality Study will examine the gendered nature of the world of work, education, skills and training. For example, how workforce participation, education choices, career progression and pay gaps are gendered, and how we can offer public policy solutions.
Hosted by Wheatbelt NRM on Friday 14 March in York.
Participants will gain
Understanding of what carbon farming means for farmers and land managers;
Be able to calculate GHG emissions and carbon storage for your property plus much more.
Cooperation between governments, training providers, employers and unions will be essential if Australia is to overcome a “disjointed” tertiary education system that has created a divide between VET and higher education, a new report from Jobs and Skills Australia says.
Opportunity for women to attend a three-day leadership retreat in Canberra, be matched with an industry-leading mentor, and work towards personal and professional goals under the guidance of the DiALP team. Applications open 24 February.
Courtesy of the Australian HR Institute, a helpful article that explains the new changes and what your HR person needs to know.
PD for Career Practitioners and Educators “Online Forum - T The current and future state of the Australian labour market
Hosted by Career Industry Council of Australia on Wed 5 March 8 am AWST. Listen to Cliff Bingham, Assistant Secretary of the Labour Market and Migration Branch of Jobs and Skills Australia.
ASQA is developing Practice Guides to support providers’ understanding of our regulatory expectations against the revised Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs).
The Training Accreditation Council (TAC) has adopted a risk management approach in which regulatory responses are evidence based, responsive, adaptable, targeted, proportionate and timely.
TDA Associate Member, the VET Development Centre (VDC) is excited to bring the 2025 VET AI Symposium, to be held Tuesday 18 March in-person at VDC in Melbourne and online nationally via Zoom.
In this TAFETalks event we will discuss ways in which TAFE and industry can help to progress equality in Australia and worldwide. We will hear from a panel of inspiring women to learn about the challenges they have faced and how they have overcome them
ABC News Article: The fake qualifications and financial fraud of Australia's shadowy private college sector
Domestic and international students have been targeted by RTOs offering non-compliant qualifications. Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) is enforcing and cancelling registration of RTOs who have been involved.
The Conversation published a recent article from research into the apprenticeship system in England. The number of people choosing to enrol in an apprenticeship has declined markedly over the past decade, particularly among young people. Learnings from this could apply to the Australian Apprenticeship system.
Experts are warning Australians' taste for cheap furniture may be putting their health at risk. Toxic chemicals known as "forever chemicals" or PFAS have been found in some products.
We hope this has been of some assistance.
Food, Fibre and Timber Industries Training Council
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