Train, cross train and retrain
(By Sarah O'Carroll, Human Resource Magazine, 19 August 2008)
A breakdown in the education-to-employment supply chain must be addressed by managing education and conducting workforce planning, according to Matthew Tukaki, director and head of Government policy organisation SansGov.
In a discussion paper on skills reform, Tukaki told the Victorian State Government and the Australian Government that changes are vital to meet employment demand, particularly in critical areas such as information technology, infrastructure, agriculture and resources.
A contingent loan scheme to assist those wanting to return to or participate in vocational and technical education was one of the recommendations of the report. Tukaki also said there was a need for training provided at both employer and school level to be validated on how it is going to result in employment.
"If the Victorian and Australian Governments are serious about skills reform ... then we need to have a look at how we can ‘resupply' our own labour market, or, alternatively, enter into serious workforce planning to ensure consistent job numbers moving forward," he said.
International students can no longer be heavily relied on as a source of labour, according to the report, because the number of these students are decreasing at a significant rate and this, in turn, has an impact on the number of skilled graduates who remain in Australia for work once their studies have been completed.
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Brumby skills agenda needs wider scope
(Australian Financial Review, 31 July 2008, Letters / Opinions)
Duncan Hughes' article (Skills revamp tops brumby reform push, 30/7/2008) on the Brumby Government's push for a national skills agenda puts forward part of the solution. In the recent Victorian Governments call for submissions on Skills Reform we ourselves put forward that this was not about skills reform at the State level, but skills reform at the national level. Our submission went further by calling for the need for something much larger and bigger - a formative National Workforce Planning Strategy that encompasses skills, education and employment in addition to solutions that need to be found that address challenges in the decade ahead such as the maturing workforce, interstate migration and the employment impacts of climate change (such as the implementation of carbon trading schemes). The reality is that each State is confronting skills challenges of one form or another - not only that, but the employment is being reduced as our workforce grows older and begins to retire. As this workforce retires an increase in migration is occurring to State such as Queensland where ever increasing pressure is being places on sectors such as health, aged care and infrastructure. A National Workforce Planning Strategy needs to be developed as a matter of urgency to address these issues and some of the solutions may very well be developing a strategy to retain people in the workforce well past retirement age. Just as climate change strategies need to be implemented as a matter of urgency, so, too, does a National Workforce Planning Strategy.
Matthew Tukaki, Sanseman Government
With the university enrollments in crucial areas like maths and science falling over the last decade, the ‘baby boomers' about to retire and trade skills running at an all time premium, there no time like the present to get our heads together in an attempt to figure out what needs to be done to solve the skills shortage facing Australia.
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education and skills
Communication and education skills that dietitians and nutritionists can use to interact more effectively with clients, patients, and other employees are outlined in this reference guide. Specific types of communication and intervention strategies that are examined include 1) interviewing, 2) counseling, and 3) behavior modification. The following aspects of the group process are explored: facilitator and participant functions, guidelines for seeking consensus, meeting management, and using groups to supplement individual counseling. Guidelines are provided on planning, implementing, and evaluating learning, and on motivating clients and patients to make dietary changes. Numerous examples clarify key concepts and techniques; activities and exercise s at the end of each chapter demonstrate how concepts and principles can be applied to actual life situations
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Educationskills
For every student must and should have skills like education,communications,with out skills no human will survive in society.so every student must improve skills.
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A Philosophy of Education - Consulting or Fulfilment?
Organisational learning practice has been based around the concept that improving an employee's skills and knowledge leads to an improvement in the person's performance. If training improves imdividual perfprmance, the collary is that it must increase organisational performance.
Charles Jennings, head of global learning at Thomson Reuters, calls this a fulfilment model. "One of our challenges is overcoming the fulfilment model, which just asks, "how many courses do we need"? This leads to what Jennings calls "a conspiracy of convenience" - management asks for a course, the training department delivers it, no one measures outcomes and no one is held accountable for the results. Pg 80 BRW June 26
Sound familiar? It should, It compares the old and new cultures of education, one is based around organisational needs and a student's induction to them. The other says the old educational institutions are defunct because they can't keep up with the changes in commercial and government organisations. Event based training? Forget it.
The report goes on to say, Learning and development managers have to respond to the growing recogintion that formal training accounts for only a fractional learning.
80% of learning happens informally, as we all know. That's why god invented water coolers. Perhaps we should just admit that Australia's skill shortage is a furphy. The real problem is that our routines of education (our educational institutions) - event based and delivering so efficiently - are just well past their use by date.
So will that be one lump of IQ with your coffee, or will you be taking the MD's All you need to know - Course 101? Just put 10 cents in the slot when you're finished. You'll want some proof and our beautifully laminated degrees are soooo impressive.
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What he said
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=174
Its a bit long but (re: media) he says it all
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Business based on the person skills
Organisational learning practice has been based around the concept that improving an employee's skills and knowledge leads to an improvement in the person's performance.
Guidelines are provided on planning, implementing, and evaluating learning, and on motivating clients and patients to make dietary changes.
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Education and Skills
Every person much need Education and communication skills to live in this society. Every person much need to improve their skills. In our society we have lot popular school and colleges to improve knowledge.
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Skills Crisis Furphy
Simon, I don't agree that the skills crisis is a furphy and all you need to do is look at the data. As any number of IT Journalists will tell you I have made passing comments in the not to distant past about whether or not i think there is a skills crisis in that sector - most of which has been unflattering and my take on the fact the 457 visa process is being used in a bad way by that particular sector. That said, if you cut across every other industry and sector, rural towns and regional centres right across this country - you would know it is no furphy.
Matthew Tukaki, Director of Government Policy & Strategy, SansGov (Sanseman Government); PO BOX 3295 Redfern, Sydney NSW 2016; Mobile 0449 703 118; matthew.tukaki@sansgov.com; http://www.sansgov.com/