Tag: Future Skills Organisation

How FSO became a national orchestrator for AI skills

Posted on   |  by Suzanne Prescott
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...

Gig Guide: Home Affairs loses tech chief Kovacevic to Austrade

Posted on   |  by David Allen
The federal government’s trade investment agency has poached Home Affairs’ long-serving chief digital officer Radi Kovacevic, as the public service continues to grapple with the internal impact of artificial...

Leadership on AI skills will be key to economic impact

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
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

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
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...

FSO forum pushes for skills system reset

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
Industry, government and education leaders came to a shared conclusion at the Future Skills Organisation’s National Forum: Australia’s skills system needs both a structural overhaul and a new narrative that...

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

Posted on   |  by Suzanne Prescott
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...

Our skills black hole is Australia’s next urgent challenge

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
If securing a future made in Australia and becoming a green energy superpower are universally acknowledged as moonshot ambitions, then skilling the Australian workforce to achieving these goals must...

Tech skills shortage needs a micro-credential overhaul

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australian Services Union national secretary Robert Potter has called on the federal government to reform the nation’s tech education capability and proposes the better integration and regulation of micro-credentials...

We need a common language for digital skills

Posted on   |  by Ishtar Vij and Patrick Kidd
If Australians’ digital capability is core to driving productivity, why don’t we have a straightforward way to describe what that capability is?  At the annual Business Council Australia dinner...