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Initiatives targeting Recommendation 22CommonwealthNew Apprenticeships A New Apprenticeship is an apprenticeship or traineeship which offers new training flexibilities, new support service arrangements and opportunities in more industries than before. New Apprenticeships can cover full or part-time work. The part-time arrangements are also available to school students. New Apprenticeships involve a combination of paid work and structured training and must be underpinned by a training agreement which is registered with the relevant State/Territory Training Authority. New Apprenticeships Centres are a support service established by the Commonwealth Government. They provide information on New Apprenticeships to employers, New Apprentices and other interested parties. They also administer the Commonwealth incentives payments. These incentives are aimed at increasing New Apprenticeships opportunities by supporting employers in the public, private and community sectors to offer ongoing employment and structured training opportunities to New Apprentices. Target Group: Many New Apprentices are young people, some starting at school, however, adults can be trained under the New Apprenticeships programme. Geographical Coverage: National Timeframe: Ongoing Contact details: Initiative Website address: http://www.newapprenticeships.gov.au/ Responsible agency: Department of Education, Science and Training The Enterprise and Career Education Foundation (ECEF) The ECEF encourages and supports effective school-industry partnerships to link businesses, schools and communities to create a diversity of learning experiences. ECEF aims to help young Australians acquire enterprise and career knowledge and experience before they leave school. ECEF significantly broadens and refocuses the work of its predecessor, the Australian Student Traineeship Foundation (ASTF). The ECEF supports the creation of partnerships that provides opportunities for school students to learn and develop in the workplace and broader community. It promotes the expansion of school to work links and supports career education, structured workplace learning initiatives and enterprise education. These activities will enable young Australians to acquire vocational, enterprise and career education, knowledge and experience before they leave school. ECEF will achieve these objectives through:
Target group: Upper secondary school students Coverage: National Timeframe: 4 years Responsible agency: Department of Education, Science and Training Website: www.dest.gov.au ECEF - WADU Indigenous Youth Partnerships Initiatives The Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) has provided funding to the Enterprise and Career Education Foundation (ECEF) to manage and deliver the Wadu Indigenous Youth Partnership Initiative (IYIP) from June 2000 to the end of 2002. IYPI builds onto ECEF's existing Wadu strategy. Wadu IYPI is addressing young Indigenous people's relative disadvantage in education, training and employment. This involves a 'whole of community' approach to supporting Indigenous youth to remain at or return to school, and provides a reliable pathway from schooling to training and employment and onto independence. IYPI complements and forms part of the broader Federal Government's National Indigenous English Literacy and Numeracy Strategy. To May 2002, twenty IYPI projects had been run nation-wide with the two most recent additions being in the Cape York and Newcastle regions under a model of collaboration between ECEF, DEST, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), Family and Community Services (FaCS) and the Department of Health and Ageing. Target Group: Indigenous Young People Coverage: National Timeframe: June 2000 - December 2002 Contact: Branch Manager Website: http://www.ecef.com.au/web/km/kmgateway.nsf/ECEF/WADU_Resource4ZLA3B Responsible Agency: Department of Education, Science and Training through the Enterprise and Career Education Foundation Implementation of the Framework for Vocational Education in Schools The Commonwealth is working with all Education Ministers through the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) to implement a new Framework for vocational education in schools. The Framework promotes a broad view of Vocational Education in order to prepare students for work. This is integrated into the school curriculum at all levels, not just the post-compulsory years. The Framework encompasses career information and guidance, as well as both general and dual-accredited VET courses, including school-based New Apprenticeships. Target group: Primarily School students but also all Australians Coverage: National Timeframe: 2001 - 2004 Responsible Agency: State, Territory and Commonwealth education and training authorities VET in Schools programmes One element of the Framework for VET in Schools is the continuing work to expand Vocational Education and Training (VET) in the post-compulsory years including part-time, school-based New Apprenticeships. VET in Schools programmes provide credit towards the senior secondary certificate and a national industry-recognised vocational qualification. Vocational Education programmes may involve on-the-job training with local businesses, giving students valuable exposure to the workplace and development of work-related skills. Target group: School students (senior secondary) Coverage: National Timeframe: Ongoing Responsible Agency: Commonwealth, State and Territory education and training authorities, non-government education authorities and the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) Career and Transition (CATS) Pilots During the 2002 school year, twenty three Career and Transition Pilot (CATS) projects across Australia are exploring methodologies for and testing ways to enhance career and transition support to young people aged 13-19 years. The pilot projects will offer improved career and transition information, support, guidance and advice and will include the development of individual learning pathways plans focusing on young peoples transitions through school and from school to further education, training and work, prepared with the support of dedicated Transition Advisors. Local partnerships between schools, the community, government and industry as well as links with families are an integral part of these projects. The CAT projects have been developed as part of the Government's response to the Youth Pathways Action Plan Taskforce's Report Footprints to the Future, in particular to recommendations 4,5 and 6. The Career and Transition (CAT) Pilots contain four major components:
Target Group: Young people aged 13-19 Geographical Coverage: 23 projects will operate across a variety if setting in metropolitan, regional and remote areas of Australia. Timeframe: 12 months from April 2002 Contact details: Responsible agency: Department of Education, Science and Training Website: www.dest.gov.au Partners in a Learning Culture: Australia's National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Strategy for Vocational Education and Training 2000 - 2005 Partners in a Learning Culture is a five-year national strategy (2000-2005), with an accompanying implementation blueprint for increasing opportunities for Indigenous people in vocational education and training. These documents are designed to contribute to reconciliation and justice and support community economic development and sustainability among Indigenous Australians. The Australian Indigenous Training Advisory Council (AITAC) has been established to monitor the implementation of the blueprints for Partners in a Learning Culture. The Blueprint outlines strategies and actions for each of the stakeholders to undertake. Membership of AITAC includes representatives from key Commonwealth agencies, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, ANTA, Aboriginal Education Consultative Bodies, the Federation of Aboriginal Independent Education Providers, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Registered Training Organisations, each State Training Authority, the Enterprise and Career Education Foundation and Small Business. Target Group: Indigenous people Coverage: National Timeframe: 2000 to 2005 Contact: Branch Manager Website: http://www.anta.gov.au/daplearning.asp Responsible Agency: Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) National Indigenous English Literacy and Numeracy Programme (NIELNS) The objective of the National Indigenous English Literacy and Numeracy Strategy is to achieve English literacy and numeracy for Indigenous students at levels comparable to those achieved by other young Australians. The strategy acknowledges that extra effort is required by education providers for Indigenous students to be successful and aims to address six key elements:
Under the NIELNS, DEST funds a range of projects that provide personalised support, community learning environments, and vocational learning experiences to young Indigenous people who are at risk of disconnection or who have become disconnected. Some initiatives focus specifically on the issue of literacy and/or numeracy whilst others seek to improve educational outcomes via other means such as increasing attendance rates, involving parents and the community, addressing health issues and mentoring. Target Group: Indigenous Young People Coverage: National Timeframe: 2000 to 2004 Contact: Branch Manager Website: www.dest.gov.au/schools/indigenous/nielns.htm Australians Working Together - Indigenous Education and Training Under Australians Working Together, DEST will consult with ECEF regarding the development of projects to encourage increased vocational learning opportunities for Indigenous secondary school students. Target Group: Indigenous Young People Coverage: National Timeframe: Contact: Branch Manager Responsible Agency: Department of Education, Science and Training Website: www.dest.gov.au Australians Working Together - Working Together for Indigenous Youth Under the Commonwealth Government's Australians Working Together package funding has been allocated to the Working Together for Indigenous Youth initiative to provide specific support for Indigenous students to stay on to complete year 12 or move into further education, training or paid employment. Working Together for Indigenous Youth provides a national framework for the promotion and ongoing operations of local partnerships between key stakeholders in Indigenous education. The overarching goals and guiding principles for this initiative are encompassed in the following five key elements:
Target Group: Indigenous people Coverage: National Timeframe: 2002 to 2004 Contact: Branch Manager Website: http://www.together.gov.au/ Responsible Agency: Department of Education, Science and Training Commonwealth Development and Employment Projects (CDEP) Scheme - Literacy and Numeracy Programme Two CDEP pilot projects commenced in mid 2001 in Broome, Western Australia and Port Lincoln in South Australia to trial innovative, flexible and culturally appropriate delivery of literacy and numeracy training for CDEP participants. Participants enrolled in training in these pilots prior to December 2001 are expected to complete their training in 2002. Target Group: CDEP participants Coverage: Broome, Western Australia and Port Lincoln, South Australia Timeframe: 2001-2002 Contact: Director Responsible Agency: Department of Education, Science and Training Website: www.dest.gov.au Australians Working Together Australians Working Together - Helping people to move forward is a major package of initiatives offering significant support and services to help people to help themselves. Young job seekers will benefit from many Australians Working Together (AWT) initiatives announced in the 2001-02 Budget. Young people will also benefit from the improvements to employment services under AWT. AWT builds on the Government's employment assistance and mutual obligation policies that have attracted widespread support amongst participants and the broader community. The new system is providing improved personalised assessment and service, more opportunities for training and work experience, better incentives, and reasonable requirements for people to find work, increase their earnings or contribute to their communities. Centrelink will be the gateway to the new system. Centrelink Personal Advisers will provide a high level of service to people needing additional help to overcome personal or other barriers. Under AWT young people will have access to more places in Literacy and Numeracy Training, Job Search Training, and Work for the Dole and can earn Training Credits by participating in Work for the Dole and Community Work. Vulnerable and at risk young people will benefit from the better assessment processes in Intensive Assistance and the linkages between Intensive Assistance and other programmes. Young people will also benefit from other initiatives such as the Working Credit (which encourages people on income support to take up full-time, substantial part-time or casual work) and the new Personal Support Programme (designed to help people with problems such as homelessness, and drug and alcohol addiction) that replaces the Community Support Programme. Coverage: National Timeframe: July 2001 - June 2005 Contact details: together@dewrsb.gov.au Initiative Website address: http://www.together.gov.au/ Responsible Agency: Shared policy responsibility between Family and Community Services, Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, and Department of Education, Science and Training |
