First Roundtable meeting - June 2008
The first Australian Apprenticeships Roundtable meeting for 2008 was held in Canberra from 2 to 4 June 2008. Following a nomination process 31 Australian Apprentices were selected to reflect a broad set of experiences, including trade and non-trade apprentices/trainees, apprentices and trainees from large, medium and small enterprises; school-age, post-school, mid-career and mature-age apprentices and trainees and those from across urban and rural areas of Australia.
At the June meeting members met to identify key issues of concern to Australian Apprentices. These issues were prioritised, a work plan was developed and working groups established to investigate, research and report on the findings.
Meeting members also participated in professional development activities to gain skills in networking, communication, presentation and leadership so that they can more effectively influence change, negotiate outcomes and represent their peers in decision-making forums and publicly.
A productive and successful follow up meeting was held on 15 September 2008
in Adelaide and a final forum for 2008 is to be held on 19 and 20 November in
Darwin.
Members of the five working groups of the Roundtable developed issues based
surveys to gather information to formulate findings to present to the Australian
Government on apprenticeships and traineeships in Australia today. The working
groups are currently collating data and analysing the findings of these surveys.
The Roundtable participants will have the opportunity to present these
key findings to government and the vocational education and training sector at
the meeting in Darwin next month.
Roundtable newsletter 6 -
September 2008
(pdf - 188 KB)
Roundtable newsletter 5 - 28 August 2008
(pdf - 1MB)
Roundtable newsletter 4 - 4 August 2008
(pdf - 1MB)
Roundtable newsletter 3 - July 21 2008
(pdf - 1MB)
Roundtable newsletter 2 - July 4 2008
(pdf -
438KB)
Roundtable newsletter 1 - June 2008
(pdf - 1MB )
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Jessica Kiely - Frank Team facilitator - Balloon innovation
challenge.
Balloon clad roundtable members from L-R: Iva Ucich, Jade Hand and Daniel
Gilbert
Team
values and attributes activity
Catherine Keily and Angelina Kastamonitis
Roundtable members L-R:
Matthew Stephens, Matthew Annesley, Thomas Spottwood, Matthew Beavis, Iva Ucich,
Chloe Watson,
Warwick Johnstome, Sarsha Woolnough, The Hon Julia Gillard MP Minister for
Education,
William Shannon, Lee Campbell, Abby Hamill, George Brown, Jarrod Harris,
Catherine Keiley,
Andrew Smith, Mitchell Lyons, Angelina Kastominitis, Georgina Pryce and Anthony
Palasrinne.
For further information on the Australian
Apprenticeships Roundtable contact the
2008 Australian Apprenticeships
Roundtable Coordinator
at
the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
