Fast-Tracking Apprentices

1. Fast-Tracking Apprentices North Coast TAFE Commercial Cookery Model Rod Ware Dean Groth

2. Current Projects • Commercial Cookery • Bakery • Carpentry & Joinery • Off Site Construction (shop fitting) • Bricklaying • Painting & Decorating • Automotive Mechanical Technology • Hairdressing • Metal Fabrication

3. COAG Initiative • The overall objective of the Fast-Track Apprenticeships Program is to increase the number of qualified tradespeople in industries experiencing skill shortages. • How? • Train More Apprentices • Train Apprentices Faster • The Time Component Removed

4. Increasing the numbers • Existing Employees without formal qualifications • Mature Age Apprentices • Entice others into the trade or back to the trade • More Women • More “professional bound” applicants

5. Why would they? • Faster access to qualifications • Faster access to higher wages • Mature age wages (subsidised) • Less time in apprenticeship • Business ownership aspirations • Shorter time, rewards achievement • Other incentives

6. Employers needs • Not for everyone • Negotiated up front • Government Subsidies • Better quality applicant • Less attrition • Higher level skills earlier • More productive, sooner • More diverse workforce • Increased pool of skills to draw from

7. Employers Needs (cont) • Innovative, flexible apprentice training options • Less time away from the workplace • Added focus on workplace competencies • Growth in workplace development

8. Faster/Genuine Competency Based • Much more RPL • Gap training • Remove duplication • Profiling Workplaces • Collaborating Better • Improve Supervisors VET abilities • Workplace Mentoring & Coaching • Up front training • Scheduling

9. The Model

10. Horses for Courses • Other models • Variations • Need to be flexible and adapt