The Senate’s education legislation committee has given the green light to the government’s plan to offer HECS-style loans for university students to launch innovative startups. But a likely challenge...
Skills
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A fast-tracked pathway for specialised, highly-skilled workers will be considered by the Albanese government as part of its simplification of the temporary skilled migration system after a review warned...
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Hostile workplace culture and a lack of day-to-day flexibility are the leading reasons why women leave their jobs in STEM, according to a new study by the University of...
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The CSIRO on Wednesday launched a new STEM education program for underrepresented year five to 10 students in a bid to increase and diversify the talent pipeline. The five...
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Tech job redundancies are continuing across the economy, with Accenture, the consulting arm of IBM, and Amazon the latest to confirm cuts. The cuts add to the job losses...
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A NASA internship for First Nations Australian university students has been launched with funding support from the Australian Space Agency. The National Indigenous Space Academy (NISA) will enable five...
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Australian employer, business tech and research groups have formed an alliance to tackle responsible AI by developing best practice guidance, tools and training for Australian companies using the high-risk...
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The South Australian and Commonwealth governments have formerly signed an AUKUS cooperation agreement, which includes an initial commitment to 800 additional Commonwealth Supported Places at South Australian universities over...
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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is calling for more to be done to boost Australia’s STEM skills capacity to deliver the AUKUS pact and that migration will be needed to...
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The fevered anticipation about which nuclear submarines Australia will acquire and where they will be built is understandable. It’s a decades long program worth hundreds of billions of dollars....
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A Hydrogen Centre of Excellence will be established in Sydney to train hundreds of plumbers for the emerging industry if Labor is elected at this month’s New South Wales...
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South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas has broken ground on the first of five new technical colleges aimed at producing the skilled workforce to build – among other things –...
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A capacity study on Australia’s workforce needs to transition to a clean energy economy will be undertaken by Jobs and Skills Australia later this year. The announcement was made...
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New university and vocational training facilities in Wollongong will train workers in clean energy and clean manufacturing after a $12.5 million commitment from the federal government. A $10 million...