Tag: Patrick Kidd

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...

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...

FSO to lead training rethink as digital skills take hold

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Future Skills Organisation takes the reins of the Finance, Technology, and Business Jobs and Skills Council at a time when there is a need to “normalise” digital skills...

Labor’s Husic to convene tech skills roundtable

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic will convene a special tech industry roundtable to decide on urgent action to address growth inhibiting skills shortages across the sector. Mr Husic...

Urgent overhaul of digital skills training needed: DSO

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The federally funded Digital Skills Organisation has called for an overhaul of digital training in Australia to meet the country’s growing talent gap in a new discussion paper. Digital...