You’re invited to provide validation and comment on the redrafted qualifications, skill sets and units of competency for the animal care and management industry. They relate to the following areas: Animal Incident Management Animal Technology Horse Education Microchipping Cats and Dogs This round of feedback is about checking the documents are logical and factually accurate. Let us know whether the final drafts accurately reflect the current industry skills standards, knowledge and practices and whether all job functions are accurately described. You’re … Read More

Skills Forecasts describe industry skills gaps, emerging markets and changing work methods. They propose a four year plan for reviewing and developing units, skill sets and qualifications for the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector. The Australian Industry and Skills Committee (AISC) draws on this information to update their AISC National Schedule, and to determine future Training Package Projects. A Skills Forecast is being drafted for each industry training package we support. They will be published on the Skills Impact website … Read More

The AISC has published a communique from their meetings on the 25th and 26th of February. One of the key themes the AISC focused on over the two meetings was continuous improvement, which includes the ongoing work on further streamlining the training product development system, including the AISC’s processes. The AISC is also focused on creating stronger alignment between training packages and current and emerging job roles, job families and career pathways. Three Skills Impact projects approved for 2019-20 At their meetings, … Read More

We’re seeking your feedback on the priority skills that have been identified for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries between 2019 and 2022. They are documented in a draft IRC Skills Forecast and Proposed Schedule of Work (Skills Forecast) document. Several projects have been proposed to address these priority skills, as summarised in the grey box below. Feedback is being collected up until 15 April 2019. The Skills Forecast will be submitted by the Food, Beverage and Pharmaceutical Industry Reference Committee (IRC) and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing IRC to the … Read More

We’re seeking your feedback on the priority skills that have been identified for the agriculture, horticulture, conservation and land management industries between 2019 and 2022. They are documented in a draft IRC Skills Forecast and Proposed Schedule of Work (Skills Forecast) document. Several projects have been proposed to address these priority skills, as summarised in the grey box below. Feedback is being collected over a four week period, up until 15 April 2019. The Skills Forecast will be submitted by the Agriculture and Production … Read More

We’re seeking your feedback on the priority skills that have been identified for the racing and breeding industry, for 2019 – 2022. They are documented in a draft IRC Skills Forecast and Proposed Schedule of Work (Skills Forecast) document. Projects have been proposed to address these priority skills, as summarised in the grey box below. Feedback is being collected over a four week period, up until 11 April 2019. The Skills Forecast will be submitted from the Racing and Breeding Industry Reference … Read More

We’re seeking your feedback on the priority skills that have been identified for the aquaculture and wild catch industry between 2019 and 2022. They are documented in a draft IRC Skills Forecast and Proposed Schedule of Work (Skills Forecast) document. Several projects have been proposed to address these priority skills, as summarised in the grey box below. Feedback is being collected over a four week period, up until 12 April 2019. The Skills Forecast will be submitted from the Aquaculture and Wild Catch Industry Reference … Read More

We’re seeking your feedback on the priority skills that have been identified for the Animal Care and Management industry, for 2019 – 2022. They are documented in a draft IRC Skills Forecast and Proposed Schedule of Work (Skills Forecast) document. Several projects have been proposed to address these priority skills, as summarised in the grey box below. Feedback is being collected over a four week period, up until 11 April 2019. The Skills Forecast will be submitted from the Animal Care and … Read More

You’re invited to provide feedback on the redrafted qualifications and units of competency for irrigation. They will be available on the Skills Impact website for your review and comment until 26 March 2019.  

Thank you to those who participated in the validation process for the final draft units of competency and skill sets, developed as part of the Meat Processing Project. The documents have undergone an independent quality assurance process. However, it has been identified by the project team and supported by the Meat IRC that major edits have been recommended to be made to two further units of competency. These two units have been added to the project scope and we are now seeking … Read More

You’re invited to provide feedback on the redrafted qualifications, skill sets and units of competency for the racing and breeding industry. They have been drafted as part of the following three projects: Greyhound Health Assistance Services  Horse Breeding Skills Retraining Horses & Greyhounds to New Environments This round of feedback is about checking the documents are logical and factually accurate. Let us know whether the final drafts accurately reflect the current industry skills standards, knowledge and practices and whether all job functions … Read More

We are seeking feedback on additional changes made to some units of competency out of the Animal Incident Management and Horse Education projects. The changes are based on feedback that was received on the drafts that were made available throughout February and early March. The revised units will be available for feedback until 21 March 2019. To provide comment, please visit the relevant project webpage, linked below.