Careers Advisers Seminar

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Careers Advisers Seminar 4 June 2004
Bundoora Apprenticeships and Traineeships Alan
Montague RMIT University Phone (03) 9925
3828Email alan.montague_at_rmit.edu.au
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My Role

• Maximizing the participation in education and
  training through various pathways
• Your role
• Apprenticeships and Traineeships is one such
  pathway
• A Story

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WHAT ARE APPRENTICESHIPS TRAINEESHIPS?

• New Apprenticeship means apprenticeship or
  traineeship
• Can cover full or part-time work, in schools,
  VCE, VCAL (with a few exceptions)
• Combine paid work with training under a
  government approved Training Contract
• Training program lead to nationally recognised
  qualification
• Traineeship usually last 2 years
• Apprenticeship usually last 3 4 years

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Apprenticeships The Statistics

• In December 2003
• There were 406 900 apprentices and trainees
  in-training, an increase of 10 from 31 December
  2002 (369 100). 136,600 in Victoria
• The number of apprentices and trainees
  in-training remained virtually unchanged between
  the December 2003 quarter (406 900) and the
  September 2003 quarter (405 400).
• The number of apprentices and trainees
  in-training in the Trades and related workers
  occupational groups was 3 higher than the number
  at 31 December 2002.
• In the Clerical, sales and service workers
  (elementary, intermediate and advanced)
  occupation groups the number of apprentices and
  trainees in-training was 12 higher than in the
  previous year.
• Part-time (including school-based) apprentices
  and trainees accounted for approximately 24 of
  the total number in-training.
• 37 (151 100) are female apprentices and trainees
  in-training
• (Source NCVER 2004)
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Apprentices and Trainees In-training as at
30/12/03 by state/territory by age  
 
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Employment

• Full-time jobs for teenagers and young adults
  have declined by 6.9 and 15.2 per cent since
  1995.
• Australians aged 15 to 24 years have over two and
  a half times (2.7) the level of unemployment
  recorded by adults aged 25 to 54 years.
• School leavers who graduate from an
  apprenticeship have a lower unemployment rate
  than other school leavers.

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Key Issues
Collectively we need to do four things and today
is a part of it   1. Improve the education
sectors focus on where students go when they
leavethat is, on their transition to
postsecondary education and work. 2. Our task is
to create, assist and understand multiple
pathways to an adult vocational life for our
clients through the maze and somehow understand
education, work, industry and society. 3. We all
have a key leadership role to play in addressing
these challenges. 4. Understanding the obvious
that the VET pathway is suited for some and not
others but its value is not fully realised.  
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AQF Table of Qualifications (by sector of
accreditation)
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On Track? The Numbers
What do the figures say? The basis of research
is to try to reflect reality. The numbers, who
owns the problem?
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On Track Data
Victoria has set a new standard of reporting on
school leaver destinations by releasing recent
data on the destination of 2002 Year 12 leavers
for nearly all secondary schools in the State.
Information on the destinations of 48,450
students from both Government and non-Government
schools who were enrolled in Year 12 in 2002 was
gathered in March and April 2003. A total of 73
per cent of the eligible population participated
in the On Track survey. It is significant that
the destination information for each school was
released publicly and published in the major
metropolitan newspapers on 2 June 2003. Curtain
et al, 2003, p.13.
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  Source Curtain et al, 2003 p.13 Quoting On
Track Destination data, May 2003.
www.llen.vic.gov.au/llen/ontrack  
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The 2002 On Track survey released in 2003
showed that 83 per cent of students from
government schools who applied for university
or TAFE received an offer, compared with 88 per
cent of students in Catholic schools, and 94 per
cent of students in independent schools The
survey also found and identified - nearly 100
Victorian schools that had more than one in 10
students unemployed and without a tertiary offer
(Tomazin, The Age 24 February 2004).
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Attrition and Higher Education

• Federal Government Research commencing in 1992
  established that
• 1/3 of HE students had vanished without
  graduating by 1997
• 1/5 of all who started a degree would not
  complete it
• A more recent government report in 2002 reflected
  a similar withdrawal and return rate
• The capacity for student to complete units
  enrolled should not be in question even though
  only 70 per cent of commencers graduate, a low
  figure of only 10 per cent of all units students
  enroll in are failed
• Sources Higher Education at the Crossroads,
  Commissioned by the Department of Education
  Science and Technology (DEST) in 2002
• Ashenden et al, Education Age, August, 1 2001
  p.4

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Student flows VET and higher education
Higher Education (Bachelor degree or below)
19,600
TAFE
Vocational Education and Training
Higher Education
97,400
Source ANTA 2001
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From University to TAFE
Tens of thousands of university graduates are
undertaking TAFE courses in an attempt to become
more employable, latest figures show. And many
more university graduates go on to TAFE
institutes than TAFE students to university.
Academics say this casts doubt on the
Government's assertion that students use TAFE as
a cheap, "backdoor" way of obtaining
degrees. Statistics cited in a recent paper by
the National Centre for Vocational Education
Research (NCVER) show that in 2002, 88,500
students studying at TAFEs had a bachelor or
higher degree. The paper says a "large" number
of higher education students go on to do
vocational education and training. Only 15,000
first-year university students had TAFE
qualifications. In all age groups, there was a
growing trend for people to hold both university
and TAFE qualifications. (Cervini, The Age, 11
January 2004)
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Clients in VET Programmes with Degree or
Postgraduate Diploma as Highest Prior
Qualification, 1995-2001
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FACTS AND FIGURES

• Employment status varies markedly by level of
  education.
• The unemployment rate July 2001
• All Unemployed persons 6.9 (now 6.1 July 2003)
• 11.0 - Year 10 or below
• 9.4 - Year 11
• 7.4 - Year 12
• 5.1 - Certificate
• 4.3 - Advanced Diploma or Diploma
• 3.1 - bachelor degree or above.
• Source Education and Work, Australia, May 2001
  (6227.0) Job Search Experience of Unemployed
  Persons, Australia, July 2001 (6222.0). ABS

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Again

• Its true that the starting salaries for
  university graduates in their first full-time job
  are higher again at exceeding 673 per week.
• The majority of university graduates are employed
  in
• the professions which are the highest paying jobs
  in
• the labour market.
• But estimates of average annual full-time
  earnings
• for different groups show that people with an
• apprenticeship or other skilled vocational
  qualification
• have an average earning if employed fulltime
• of around 43,500 in 2000
• (Graduate Careers Council Australia 2003)
• (National Centre for Vocational Education
  Research 2001, Australian apprenticeships Facts,
• fiction and future, NCVER, Adelaide.
  http//www.acer.edu.au/ accessed 14 August, 2002)

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Salaries/Career Path Metals/Engineering Sector
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Salaries/Career Path Metals/Engineering Sector
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Salaries/Career Path Metals/Engineering Sector
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Salaries/Career Path Metals/Engineering Sector
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Apprenticeship a time honoured model of learning

• Teachers, doctors of medicine, nurses, surveyors,
  accountants, performing and visual artists
• Motor mechanics, electricians, plumbers, chefs,
  hair dressers, machinists, tool makers,
  upholsterers
• Learning on the job indentures or contracts
• Standards and guilds

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Pathways from apprenticeship

• Traditional The apprentice, to the journeyman to
  the master and employer.
• The modern A From apprentice to trades
  specialist and technician, to supervisor, to
  sales and production planning, to manager.
• The modern B from apprentice to subcontractor,
  to small business owner and employer

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National Skill Shortage

• Australia 2003
• SOURCE DEWR 2003

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Occupations in Demand

• ? Refrigeration Air Conditioning Mechanic
• ? Bricklayer
• ? Plumber
• ? Chef
• ? Cook
• ? Pastrycook
• ? Cabinetmaker
• ? Hairdresser
• ? Furniture Upholsterer

• TRADES (December 2002)
• ? Metal Fitter
• ? Metal Machinist
• ? Toolmaker
• ? Metal Fabricator
• ? Welder
• ? Sheetmetal Worker
• ? Motor Mechanic
• ? Auto Electrician
• ? Panel Beater
• ? Vehicle Painter
• ? Electrician

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PROFESSIONALS (February 2003)

• Child Care Coordinator
• Child Care Worker
• Civil Engineer
• Dentist
• Pharmacist (Hospital/Retail)
• Occupational Therapist

• Physiotherapist
• Speech Pathologist
• Diagnostic Radiographer
• Radiation Therapist
• Nuclear Medicine Technologist
• Sonographer

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MORE PROFESSIONALS

• Secondary Teacher (specialisations only)
• ! Manual Arts/Tech Studies
• ! Maths
• ! Physics/Chemistry
• ! General Science

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• ICT SKILLS SPECIALISATIONS ONLY (October 2002)
• ? SAP
• ? Java Security and Electronic Commerce
• ? PeopleSoft
• ? CISSP

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More ProfessionalsRegistered Nurse

• Accident/Emergency
• Aged Care
• Cardiothoracic
• Community
• Critical/Intensive Care
• Indigenous Health
• Neonatal Intensive Care
• Oncology

• Operating Theatre
• Neurology
• Paediatric
• Palliative Care
• Perioperative
• Renal/Dialysis
• Registered Midwife
• Mental Health Nurse
• Enrolled Nurse

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FACTS

• 45 of apprentices have year 10 and 11
• 11 of all apprentices have tertiary
  qualifications
• In the year 2000 Cert. III and IV graduate
  apprentices averaged nationally 43,500 post
  apprenticeship salary
• Traditional tradespersons are twice as likely to
  be self-employed and have the highest rates of
  full-time employment of any group in the labour
  market, university graduates included 
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• (National Centre for Vocational Education
  Research 2001, Australian apprenticeships Facts,
  fiction and future, NCVER, Adelaide.
  http//www.acer.edu.au/ accessed 14 August, 2002)

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SUSTAINED EMPLOYMENT

• University qualification at the degree level or
  higher leads to the highest employment rates and
  earnings levels in the labour market.
• The next best employment outcomes are achieved by
  those who have an apprenticeship or other skilled
  vocational qualification (at the Certificate III
  or IV level).
• For the Certificate III or IV level group the
  probability of having a job is over 83 their
  average full-time earnings exceed 43,500 per
  year.
• (National Centre for Vocational Education
  Research 2001, Australian apprenticeships Facts,
  fiction and future, NCVER, Adelaide.
  http//www.acer.edu.au/ accessed 14 August, 2002)

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RMIT Apprenticeships and Traineeships

• Aerospace Conservation/Land Management
• Air Conditioning Refrigeration
• Mechanical (FittingMachining)
• Business Admin/Management Multimedia
• Cabinet Making Nursing Civil Construction
• Optical Dental Assisting
• Personal Care/Community Dental Technology
• Plumbing Dry Cleaning Printing and Graphic
  Technology
• Electrical/ Electronics Real Estate
• Retail Finance Textile, Clothing Footwear
• Frontline Management (FMI) Warehousing I.T.
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Jobs Employment and Training

• www.jet.org.au
• RMIT Apprenticeship Traineeship Website
  www.rmit.edu.au/appstrainees
• RMIT Open Day
• Sunday 8 August 2004