Edition 62, November 2008

Licensing Line News is currently undertaking a survey of the views and opinions of its readers and subscribers... read more

The Harmonising Licensing Month seminar series continues throughout November to provide licensing and training stakeholders with detailed information on key occupational licensing and regulatory matters that impact on training and assessment... read more

WorkCover NSW has commenced recognising occupational health and safety construction induction qualifications obtained in South Australia... read more

Service Skills Australia is calling for comment from relevant stakeholders on four industry skill reports covering the service industries... read more

Innovation and Business Skills Australia is currently developing its Environmental Scan for 2009... read more

The Energy Networks Association and EE-Oz Training Standards have announced a joint project to identify common refresher training in the Australian Electricity Supply Industry, to encourage portability of qualifications across Australia... read more

The Productivity Commission has released a draft research report on the review of the two main mutual recognition schemes in Australia... read more

Comcare's 2007-2008 Annual Report has been released and is now available to download from the Comcare website... read more

Legislation has been introduced into Queensland Parliament to clear the way for a new smartcard driver's licence... read more

Australia’s Transport Ministers have unanimously agreed to develop national regulations for pilot and escort vehicles... read more

The Queensland Electrical Safety Office has released a summary of the changes aimed at improving electrical safety which were made recently to the Electrical Safety Regulation 2002 and came into effect on 1 July 2008... read more

Australia's workplace safety authorities are joining forces to tackle the injury rate of workers in the retail, wholesale, transport and storage industries... read more

Queensland's new licensing requirements for site supervisors comes into effect in December with supervisors encouraged to get their licence applications in before the transition period ends... read more

Reforms imposing responsible gambling requirements on all wagering operators who advertise their services in New South Wales have been introduced into the state’s Parliament... read more

The Ministerial Council for Vocational and Technical Education has released a communiqué outlining the outcomes of the discussions conducted at its 20 November meeting held in Darwin... read more

A new partnership between the Australian Government and industry to pilot training for the existing workforce through a series of National Enterprise Productivity Places Program trials has been announced... read more

The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations has released the Feedback Report on comments it received on the Skilling Australia for the Future Discussion Paper released earlier this year... read more

The Automotive Manufacturing Training Package (AUM08) has been endorsed by the National Quality Council... read more

The New South Wales Vocational Education and Training Accreditation Board has funding available for registered training organisations to test a new self evaluation tool to help students be better prepared for recognition of prior learning... read more

Twenty-nine of the country’s best and brightest young skill and trade people have been selected to represent Australia at the 40th WorldSkills International Competition... read more

Do you need to stay up to date with news and developments in Australia’s vocational education and training system?... read more

The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Workplace Literacy and Language (WELL) Program has released the first edition of the 'Doing well with WELL Resources' newsletter... read more

The Australian Flexible Learning Framework, the national training system’s e-learning strategy, has a bank of free learning objects available for teachers and trainers to download for use with their learners... read more

Automotive Training Australia has developed six teaching and learning resources designed to address the underpinning or theoretical knowledge for units of competency to assist with delivery of Certificate I and II qualifications in the AUR05 Retail, Service and Repair Training Package... read more

The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations will host a conference in Sydney on 2-5 March 2009 which will address the best way to meet future skills needs in a globally competitive world... read more

The Queensland Department of Education, Training and the Arts will be hosting a major event for registered training organisations in March 2009... read more

The National Audit and Registration Agency is conducting the next suite of its Good Practice workshops in December... read more

The Australian Building Codes Board is hosting a series of half-day information seminars during March 2009 to explain amendments to the Building Code Australia... read more

Trainers and assessors striving to improve their group delivery skills and training sessions are invited to a one day workshop... read more