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Mature Workers Programs
The Mature Workers Grants Program aims to support new services designed to address barriers experienced by mature workers seeking to upskill or reskill. The Mature Workers Grants Program also aims to identify and address barriers impacting employers’ utilisation of Canberra’s mature workforce to meet their skills needs. The ACT Government, through Skills Canberra, is looking to fund new activities that will assist employers to recruit and retain skilled, experienced, mature workers.
d) Australian Apprenticeships
The ACT Government currently subsidises 565 qualifications accessible through an Australian Apprenticeship pathway in the ACT. Australian Apprenticeships are available in traditional trades, as well as a diverse range of emerging careers in most sectors of business and industry.
Australian School Based Apprenticeships (ASBA) are like any apprenticeship or traineeship but commenced part-time as part of a student’s secondary schooling. Students earn a wage, train with an employer, and work towards an accredited qualification while undertaking their Senior Secondary Certificate.
e) Vocations, technical and trades education
Skilled Capital and Australian Apprenticeships – as described above – are forms of vocational, technical and trades education.
ACT Public Service Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Vocational Employment Program
The ACT Public Service (ACTPS) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Vocational Employment Program (the Program) is a 12-month employment entry program, that is open only to applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People. This is a flexible employment entry program that can accommodate the varied needs of each Directorate and their business units/work areas and what they need from their staff. The Program is an opportunity to provide employment entry for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people into a diverse range of job roles across all Directorates within the ACTPS.
Ginninderry SPARK training and employment programs
SPARK partners with RTOs and non-government organisations to deliver training and employment initiatives and programs targeting key disadvantaged groups (youth, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, mature-aged, long term unemployed and culturally and linguistically diverse people) who are disconnected from the labour market. Programs include pathways to traineeships and apprenticeships in construction, horticulture, landscaping, conservation land management, aged care, home and community care, individual support services, early childhood education and care, business administration and hospitality. The ACT Government has provided funding to support the expansion of the SPARK Ginninderry training and employment initiative, in addition to training subsidies provided through Skilled Capital and CIT.
f) Associate degrees
Associate degrees are available to Canberrans from many universities. These are not funded or administered by the ACT Government.
g) Early College Programs
The Education Directorate’s Gifted and Talented Students Policy 2014 outlines provisions to meet the needs of gifted and talented students. These include differentiated programs and full or part grade acceleration.
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