Home → News News Title A to Z Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 News Aspire News NCI's Australian Jobs 2023 Report now available The Australian Jobs 2023 report provides an overview of trends in the Australian labour market to support job seekers, employment service providers, career practitioners, those conside... Read More News Aspire News VET Skills Review New Templates and Documents A new, proposed qualification model under the Skills Reform has been released. More information in the links below:Skill StandardsTraining and Assessment RequirementsCompletion Rules... Read More News Aspire News Staying Connected in VET Staying Connected in VET: Australia's biannual VET eZineVolume 19, November 2022Click the image below and scan the QR Code on page 11 to reveal your Discount Code!T&Cs apply.Staying Connec... Read More News Aspire News Labor’s Victorian election win a boost for TAFE The key policies that Labor pledged include: Extending eligibility for Free TAFE to people with higher level qualifications Changing the “once-in-a-lifetime” limit on enrollin... Read More News Aspire News New training requirements for aged and disability care Aged and disability care staff will be trained to give medication and report malnutrition and dehydration in elderly nursing home residents, in long-awaited changes recommende... Read More News Aspire News Skills ministers agree on major VET reform steps Federal, state and territory skills ministers have agreed to measures to strengthen the VET workforce, prepare for the new Industry Clusters, and address apprentice completions at... Read More News Aspire News Labor promises more free TAFE eligibility Free TAFE courses will become available to all Victorians if the Labor government is re-elected, regardless of their prior skills or qualifications. The open eligibility will... Read More News Aspire News Google launches digital micro-credential courses, free scholarships A new microcredentialing program from Google has launched to train Australians in digital skills of “high demand” in six months or less, with 10,000 free scholarships to be... Read More News Aspire News Skills Priority List is released The latest release of the National Skills Commission’s (NSC) annual skills priority list confirms that skill shortages are acute and prevalent across the economy. The list re... Read More News Aspire News End-of-life toolkit helps staff talk to people with dementia A new set of free online resources has been developed to help frontline aged care staff initiate end-of-life conversations with people with dementia.Produced by dementia sp... Read More News Aspire News NFP CEOs share top skills in short supply According to a new survey - PwC's 3rd Annual Not For Profit CEO Survey - three-quarters of NFP leaders are feeling the adverse effects of widespread skills shortages, but a targeted upskilli... Read More News Aspire News ASQA approves extension for electrical, building qualifications The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has approved extended transition periods for a range of qualifications in the electrical and construction sectors.The extension applies t... Read More News Aspire News Simplifying VET qualifications The Albanese Government will focus on making the VET system efficient, effective and easy to navigate so that students don’t have to study the same thing over and over again.... Read More News Aspire News Jobs and Skills Summit Outcomes The Federal Government has concluded its Job and Skills Summit, which saw business, unions and government come together to build a bigger, better trained and more productive workforce,... Read More News Aspire News Free TAFE and apprenticeships extended for under 25s in Queensland Even more young Queenslanders will be able to take advantage of Free TAFE and Free apprenticeships for under 25s as it will be extended until 30 June 2023. Since August 2018,... Read More News Aspire News TAFE granted $900 million as part of National Skills Week The federal government has allocated $850 million for 465,000 fee-free TAFE places and for TAFE infrastructure. Additionally, 45,000 additional TAFE places for “industries su... Read More News Aspire News Fee-free training to supercharge NSW’s early learning workforce The NSW Government has made available 25,000 fee-free training to bolster the pipeline of skilled and job-ready workers for the early learning and care sector.The fee-free co... Read More News Aspire News Victoria injects $24m to boost vocational workforce The Victorian government will spend $24m as part of a program to enable teachers to re-train as vocational specialists, and tradies to upskill to become teachers. The Minister for Edu... Read More News Aspire News New TAFE strategy to train one million people More than one million people will be supported to reach their goal of being skilled and employed, as part of TAFE NSW’s ambitious new three-year plan. The TAFE NSW Strategic P... Read More News Aspire News Recovery in the Training System Government funded training activity in Victoria bounced back in 2021 from a COVID-19 impacted 2020 even though restrictions were reintroduced to combat the Delta and Omricon strains.2021 saw... Read More News Aspire News Government splits education and training The existing federal Department of Education, Skills and Employment is no more. A new Department of Employment and Workplace Relations will implement the government’s jo... Read More News Aspire News 2022 Budget The Australian Budget was handed down on 29 March 2022. The following outlines funding policy that affects VET and education. $52.8 million over the next 4 years to deliver an... Read More News Aspire News The Human Services Workforce Forum Report The Human Services Workforce Forum ReportThe Human Services Skills Organisation (HSSO) latest report, The Human Services Workforce Forum Report, has been released and reveals critical... Read More News Aspire News New National Microcredential Framework now available A national microcredentials framework has been released. It sets out attributes of a Microcredential, and how they should operate, what they must cover and how they can be... Read More News Aspire News A guide to VET for human services employers A guide to VET for human services employersThe HSSO has announced the release of its new resource aimed at employers in the early childhood education and care, health, and human serv... Read More News Aspire News Industry Experts Signing Up As Victorian TAFE Teachers Industry Experts Signing Up As Victorian TAFE Teachers The Labor Government is helping hundreds of industry experts upskill to become TAFE teachers under the TAFE Teacher Trainin... Read More News Aspire News ACSF and DLSF review Have your say in the ACSF and DLSF review Do you use the Australian Core Skills Framework or the Digital Literacy Skills framework in your work? Perhaps you are mor... Read More News Aspire News JobTrainer supports more than 300,000 Australians The $2B JobTrainer program has hit another significant milestone, exceeding its initial course commitment with more than 300,000 enrolments across the country. The Morr... Read More News Aspire News What is an Assessment Support Pack? Aspire’s Assessment Support Pack is a suite of digital files for the trainer and assessor. Each Assessment Support Pack complements a corresponding Aspire Learner Guide and provides guideli... Read More News Aspire News BSB v7.0 latest news Updated: 17 August 2021Learner Guide and Assessment Support Pack is now available for BSBMKG435 Analyse consumer behaviour.Request a Sample or talk with your Account Manager about your reso... Read More News Aspire News ECEC latest news Updated: 17 August 2021ASQA has agreed to extend the transition period from 12 to 18 months for the new ECEC qualifications, to 20 January 2023.Contact Patricia Robinson or Jenny Asplin for... Read More News Aspire News Latest CHC Updates Updated: 3 March 2022The CHC Community Services - Community Services project has been approved for endorsement at the latest AISC meeting.Full Communique from the 22 February 2022 meeting c... Read More 1 2 3 4 ... 10