Media releases 2008

• Australia's cultural melting pot adds diversity to workplace skills
• Competition drives changes in training
• Apprentice and trainee numbers increase
• Apprenticeships - training for the 21st century or stuck in the middle-ages?
• Disability doesn't always explain educational disadvantage
• Apprentices increases again - and they're finishing faster
• Regardless of the job outcome, most training pays off
• Cooperation - not competition - the way forward for firms in training
• Hip pocket reward for post-school study
• A hand up, not a hand out – the way forward for disadvantaged Australians
• Australia too slow preparing for ‘green collar’ jobs
• No Frills highly sought
• Forum to provoke debate on apprenticeships for the future
• Growth in Australian VET students variable
• Market forces key to trade apprenticeship numbers
• Stronger role for VET to help regions grow
• Latest apprentice and trainee statistics released
• Training older workers keeps skills at work
• Training important for welfare to work
• Faster training could plug Australia's skills gap
• Adelaide research centre an Australian 'innovation'
• Research messages from 2007 at your finger tips
• Latest apprentice and trainee statistics released
• More bang for the buck from new research partnerships
• Good help getting harder to find: National employer survey