Printing Industries has completed a project under Industry Infrastructure Growth Fund (IIGF) to investigate the training needs of the industry over the next decade, and beyond.
This project:
- Captures directly the challenges facing Australian industry and maps the knowledge gaps as perceived by printers as inhibitors to business growth.
- Reviews the current situation with respect to the availability of the appropriately skilled people to the industry.
- Analyses the skills requirements for the industry now and 5 to 10 years out.
- Determines the adequacy or otherwise, of the existing educational and training delivery infrastructure for the industry.
- Scopes a set of educational and training model options to address the existing and developing gaps in this area.
- Develops a best option selection criteria set and an open and inclusive stakeholders consultative process to select the optimum option.
- Provides Printing Industries with an action plan for the implementation of the preferred option
Funding for the project was provided by the Commonwealth Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources under the Infrastructure and Industry Growth Fund (IIGF) to investigate the training needs of the printing industry.
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Education & Training Needs Report (pdf - 2406.6 kb)
Printing Industries has has completed an investigation into the training needs of the industry over the next decade, and beyond. This report illustrates the findings. |
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Training Needs Project Report - Milestone 1 (ppt - 1253 kb)
This document forms the first of 5 deliverables of the Printing Industries led study into the “Training and Education Needs of the Printing Industry Now and Into the Future.” The final report for the project is due on the 7th May 2004. As the first deliverable, this document provides the following: A listing and summary of the roles of key stakeholders in the education and training of printers. Documentation of interviews held with stakeholders in the form of “Gap Analyses” Maps of the current system for printer training/education, showing the structures and interfaces between the key stakeholders, including those relating to policy development, funding and delivery. An input/ output model, developed to dimension future printer tradespersons needs and the consequential printing industry demands for print apprentices. An overview of printer training and education in major overseas countries. A strategic SWOT based on the work completed above. |
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Training Needs Project Report - Appendices (ppt - 1357.5 kb)
1. Industry Stakeholder Interviews. 2. Key Reports Learnings. 3. Overseas Training Review. 4. Listing of Registered Training Providers for the Print and Graphic Arts Training Package. 5. Input / Output Model for Printer Trade Employment Needs Analysis. |
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Training Needs Study Report - Executive Summary (doc - 448.5 kb)
An Executive Summary of the final report which is expcted to be released mid-2004. |
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