Australia’s automotive skills shortage has shrunk from almost 22,000 unfilled jobs in 2013 to 16,359 in 2014, according to the 2015 Automotive Environmental Scan report from Auto Skills Australia (ASA). The report also says 40.6 per cent of 500 survey respondents were experiencing a skills shortage, eight per cent down on 2013 and the lowest … Continue reading Skills shortage shrinks but fewer businesses hire apprentices
On August 24, 2015, the deadline elapsed for expressions of interest to form the Skills Service Organisations (SSO) that will replace Industry Skills Councils (ISC) such as Auto Skills Australia (ASA) under the Abbott Government’s vocational education and training (VET) reforms. Regardless of the outcome of the tender process that will create a set of … Continue reading VET reform gathers momentum as contestable model kicks in
When I tell people that a technique I use during A/C diagnostics is visualising myself as a refrigerant molecule making my way around the internals of an AC system, my audience often allows their focus to wander from the discussion at hand while trying to determine just how crazy I am. Accurate diagnostics demands an … Continue reading Hacksaw Education
