Future Skills Organisation

Australia’s real AI risk is falling behind on skills

Australia’s ability to lift productivity from AI will depend less on the technology itself and more on building workforce capability.  With AI adoption accelerating across sectors, the Future Skills...

How FSO became a national orchestrator for AI skills

Australia’s race to adopt artificial intelligence is no longer about awareness. It’s about capability – and closing the widening gap between those experimenting at speed and those struggling to get started.  That gap...

New national push to embed AI skills across the VET sector

A new national initiative is aiming to accelerate AI skills across Australia’s vocational education and training sector against a backdrop of patchy adoption and growing concern about capability gaps....

Leadership on AI skills will be key to economic impact

Australia has a unique opportunity to be a leader in the global AI economy with skills development treated as a national economic imperative, according to one of the government’s...

Urgent reform needed to close future skills gap

Australia could face a shortfall of 250,000 workers across the finance, technology and business sectors by 2030, according to Future Skills Organisation (FSO) chief executive Patrick Kidd. Speaking on...

The skills gaps holding back a ‘future-fit workforce’

Australia is in the grip of a national workforce crisis, with persistent labour shortages hampering essential services, slowing economic growth and creating knock-on effects across nearly every industry.  While...