We were honoured this week to host Jonathan Barr, Head of the Employment and Skills Unit within the Local Employment, Skills, and Social Innovation Division of the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions, and Cities (CFE) of the OECD, Paris in the Hunter. During his visit, Mr Barr launched a new OECD Report, ENGAGING EMPLOYERS AND DEVELOPING [...]
A POLARISATION of the labour market that has seen growth in high- and low-skilled jobs but less opportunity for the “middle class” is a worrying global trend, an expert says. Jonathan Barr, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s head of Employment and Skills Unit, said he was also concerned about stagnant wage growth in [...]
Engaging employers in apprenticeships: Making it happen locally By Jonathan Barr, Head of the Employment and Skills Unit, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions, and Cities. The world of work is changing. Globalisation, digitalisation, and automation are fundamentally altering how and where people work and have for some time. These megatrends are contributing to growing [...]
Phase two of RDA Hunter’s miniME project has kicked off with our first event held on Thursday 7 March 2019. The miniME Hackathon event saw 14 schools come together with close to 150 students in Year 5 and 6 to learn coding and programming skills with the Obelisk Systems team using the StarLAB Mars Rovers. [...]
RDA Hunter’s Investing in Women Project celebrated 2019 International Women’s Day with an informative and practical Women in STEM Workshop in the Hunter region. The two-day workshop involved a careers session facilitated by Boeing Defence Australia, an industry visit to Port Waratah Coal Services (PWCS) and launch of the Tech Girls are Superheroes competition. Close [...]
RDA Hunter’s Investing in Women project celebrated 2019 International Women’s Day with a series of informative and practical Women in STEM activities across the Hunter region. The activities involved over 240 Year 7 – 9 female students from nine (9) Hunter region ME Program schools across four-days. The program included workshops with Tech Girls are [...]
Pictured here with His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Ret’d), Governor of NSW and Mrs Hurley, the RDA Hunter team represented the Hunter on the NSW Government stand at the The Australian International Airshow and Aerospace & Defence Exposition (Avalon 2019) last week. RDA Hunter showcased the STEMship program to international and national [...]
RDA Hunter, Lockheed Martin Australia and TAFE NSW recently announced a new partnership to deliver STEMStart. The STEMstart Initiative will shape vocational education curriculum to ensure a job-ready, highly skilled, high value workforce to support the industry technologies of the future. The program will enhance the vocational pathway for technical training to include critical skills [...]
Business, industry, government and peak body associations agree: the need to diversify the workforce is crucial. According to Ai Group’s National Manager – Workplace Relations Policy, Nicola Street, given that employment in STEM occupations is projected to grow at almost twice the pace of other occupations, increased female participation in occupations and industries that require [...]
Last week, RDA Hunter held its first Women in STEM Workshop with students from All Saints College – St Peter’s Campus, Maitland. The two-day workshop saw 50 female students in Years 7 – 9 participate in a Women in STEM careers session on Thursday morning before an industry visit at local manufacturing company, Quarry Mining in the afternoon. Day 2 [...]
