November 6, 2025 • 15 mins
SA is facing a major skills shortage, especially in our regional communities. In this episode, we hear about what’s being done to build our workforce, particularly with upcoming opportunities in the growing defence sector.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I heard, I'm Jackie lim with iHeart essay. Today we're
tackling a challenge that's front of mind for businesses, communities
and educators alike. The skills shortage right across South Australia.
From construction and healthcare to advanced manufacturing and agriculture, demand
for skilled workers has never been greater. In this episode,
(00:22):
we'll explore once behind the skills gap, the impact it's
having on local industries, and how the regions are working
to fill those gaps through training, innovation and community partnerships.
First up, I spoke to Minister for Training and Skills
Blair Boyer about how essays five technical colleges are changing
the landscape of high school education.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
A very large piece of work was done that took
the best part of twenty twenty two to work with
employers and industries right across South Australia to identify areas
of greatest need in terms of skilled shortages and future
skilled demand. That really informed what we we are offering
at our tech colleges, particularly in the two regional locations
(01:04):
which are Port Agusta. And that has already opened and
he's operational and he's full and the Limestone Coast Tech
College which is in Mount Gambia and we're open for
the first day of the twenty twenty six school years.
So we didn't just pluck qualifications or the streams that
we offer each tech college out of thin air. It
was all based on a lot of hard data that
(01:26):
we take, but also engagement with industries, particularly in regional areas,
to make sure that these tech colleges could really be
long term contributors to tackling skill shortages which we know
are often felt more acutely in regional parts of Australia
and giving the young people who go through them the
best chance of getting a really good job.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
What makes the regional roll out so important in terms
of addressing their skill shortages and what skills are we
really targeting.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Nailing down on well.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
The two really defining features of the regional tech colleges
in Port Agusta and Mount gambiacommodation that we've built in
both of them. I don't think the public education system
in South Australia has built accommodation for students maybe since
nineteen seventy ish when Lucindale had a sort of boarding
house built as part of it. So this really is
(02:15):
something that we haven't done for a very long time.
We are focusing on civil resources, which won't come as
a surprise given the opportunities around mining and things like that.
In the Upper Spencer Gulf area. Cookery and purism was
one that came through really strongly in that area in
the stakeholder engagement that we did. Health and social support
(02:35):
that one, I have to say, comes up in every
single stakeholder engagement we do, particularly in regional areas where
they're struggling to find people to care for elderly people
or people with disability or something like that. And then
multi trades, whether it's carpentry or plumbing, electro tech to
be a sparky and then agritech that's what the two
(02:56):
tech colleges are offering, including accommodation largely based onf I
held a lot of work that we did with industry
in the area.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And will these sorts of focuses be changed, and you know,
will there be new courses added or some taken away
as things changed, particularly with defense and all of that.
In the Orchest Agreement, of course, you know, we want
to get people skewed up in those areas right across essay,
not just in our regions, but it'd be great if
some of our regional residents ended up, you know, working
(03:24):
on these on these subs and all of those sorts
of things. That could be pretty awesome to see that.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So it's a good Yeah, it's a great point that
that's a really good point for a couple of reasons. Yes,
the opportunity that aucust presents are It's hard to overstate
how significant an opportunity it is for the South Australian
economy in terms of our ability to kind of sort
of restructure at posts losing a traditional manufacturing we had
with Mitsubishi and Holden. I will say those multi trades
(03:53):
streams at Portagusta and the Limestone Coast Tech College, there
is an enormous demand for work is in traditional trades
as part of Aucus, including sparky at electro tech and
things like that. So there will be opportunities through defense
as part of those streams. But you touched upon a
really good point there when you said can they change
(04:14):
in the future, And the answer is yes, they can.
And I think your listeners will, certainly the older people
tuning in, we'll all remember tech colleges or trade schools
of yesteryear, and they were a mainstay of the Australian
education system, particularly here in South Australia. They were kind
of locked into providing certain skills because we had now
we made cards for so long, so churning out automotive
(04:37):
trades was there kind of bread and butter, and the
jobs were there. The issue was when our economy changed
and we lost some of that. They weren't built in
a way that would enable them to change what they offered,
so they were kind of stuck in still providing and
producing workers in areas that no longer had demand. We
have not made the same mistake with these five technol
(05:00):
They are made in a way so as you said,
in five or ten years, if the skills demand of
South Australia change and we need more of something or
less of something, these buildings can change to accommodate that.
Because my observation now almost four years into this role
is the need for tech colleges never went away. It
(05:22):
never went away. In fact, I reckon it only increased.
The problem was the tech colleges we had weren't able
to change with the times, and we've made a big
problem for ourselves and we're sort of lying in a
bet of our own making now that we need an
enormous increase in VET trained workers in South Australia, like
seventy nine thousand additional in the next five years. But
(05:43):
we need to be telling young people you don't need
to go to university for a great career. We need
to be telling them it's a first class option, not
a second class option. Otherwise we are not going to
have the workforce to do the residential work building of homes. Also,
things like Orchid.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, definitely, well make it less of a fly in
flyout situation, particularly as well for the Spencer Golf and
Mid North sort of areas. With all of the renewables
coming online. You know, we don't want people just hanging
out there for a month taking up all of the
space in the hotels and stuff. That cuts down on
tourism as well. We want the people that are there
to do the jobs.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
That's a great point as well. Not everyone wants to
go to the city to work and live. I meet
people across our state all the time who want to
stay in their regional area and work and live and
that's a fantastic thing. But that means you need to
overkforce that those areas need locally. See if you can
get the teaching jobs, the police jobs, the nursing jobs,
the trade jobs to local people who want to stay
(06:41):
in the area, instead of us having to continually look
at ways of enticing people from outside of the area
to come and live and work there, because there's always
the higher risk, as you identified, that they will return
home at some point and will lose them, or that
they'll be there in a fly in fly out basis
using accommodation that the area might otherwise I want to
use for tourists and those kinds of opportunities. So these
(07:02):
are also about growing the workforce locally, good job opportunities
for local people locally.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So what keeps you optimistic about South Australia's skills future,
especially for our regions.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
We're willing to do things differently here. The things we've
done with Picnical colleges as a great example. No one
else is doing this. We are leading the way and
I think, you know, it might be five or ten
years we'll look back and say we made the right
decision that gave our students the best opportunity to succeed
and for South Australia to fill all those vital skills vacancies.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
We'll have more after the breaks.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
My heart ESSO, welcome back.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
We just heard from our Minister for Training and Skills
about the state's' efforts to tackle the skills shortage and
build our future workforce. Will now narrow our focus on
the defense sector, and we'll also head to the Spenser
Golf to hear from the CEO of an interesting UNI initiative.
Our reporter Jenny Lenman caught up with Minister for Innovation
and Science Joe Skag who has this week attended a
(08:03):
defense conference talking all things ucus.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
So Interepak is the largest maritime defense conference and trade
exhibition in our region. It's one of those mega conferences,
twenty five thousand people, the highest of defense, government and
military representatives from as far from the UK, the US
and everything in between. The really keen focus of our
(08:27):
government this year has been to continue the momentum of
which we're building with our local businesses and local industry
as they continue to grow capacity and build capacity to
supply into those really important global defense supply chains. And
what that means is everything from the most important and
the most technical of national endeavors. That is the building
(08:48):
of the SSN Orcus submarines in the US, the UK
and eventually right here in South Australia, or whether it
be working down other like minded partners and allies across
the region. As our defense industries build into their own
supply chains. We're working really closely with our Japanese partners,
(09:10):
with our partners in Korea, in our partners in content
of Europe. Because the world is really complex in respect
to the geopolitical challenges, the major industrial partners from around
the world are continuing to diversify where they want a
need to manufacture. The really keen focus of ours is
to ensure that South Australian businesses get to play the
(09:32):
biggest part that they possibly can in those endeavors, right,
and with.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
That comes a lot of new skills. Right, we need
to be upskilling people and it's a lot more complicated
than the old manufacturing we used to do.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
It's very different from traditional manufacturing, but I've got to
say at the same time, it is everything like what
we have been doing in South Australia for generations. So
many people and in fact so many of the businesses
that now develop and supply into the vent industry. Supply
chains have spun out of automative manufacturing, They've spun out
(10:04):
of Phillips, a really old traditional manufacturer in South Australia
decades ago. So whilst it is absolutely correct to say
that there's a significant skills and jobs and employment challenge
before us to grow the workforce, we're also seeing the
advanced manufacturing, whether it goes into cars, whether it goes
into submarines, is something that our state does just incredibly well.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I imagine also that'd be kind of a knock on
effect in terms of the more that you do within
the country and within South Australia, the more materials we
rely on, and it creates more and more jobs in
that way.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
It's a great point. Yeah, every single dollar that is
spent in vanced manufacturing or any type of manufacturing in
our state has massive flow and effects. We see that
it's good for jobs, it's good for families, it's good
for those materials suppliers. You know, we're working really closely
as part of the investment that our governments make into
a sovereign capability for steel. We want to see still
(11:04):
that is manufactured in Wyala be used as part of
some of these important national endeavors. So, whether it's using innovation,
whether it's seeing research and development advancement, or whether it
is seeing that direct flow on with jobs as we
grow manufacturing, grow industries and invest more in skills, it
(11:24):
has really significant flow on effect. It's also really really
important that we see that people that may have had
other careers, maybe in trades, maybe in engineering, maybe in
building and construction, potentially choosing to become an educator as
a career change or as a later point in life.
We've got to take a holistic approach to this and
(11:45):
encourage all the people, the right people jump in and
undertake these really important jobs and roles and functions weaving
into the future.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And finally, today our journal import Lincoln Brooks Saychelles broke
to CEO of UNI Hubspencer Golf and need a course
how local year twelve graduates no longer need to relocate
for UNI.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Our mission is to improve accessibility of tertiary education delivered
locally into our communities and also to help grow our
own skilled workforce for locals right across our region without
having to leave home.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
So are you seeing now that we've had these sort
of facilities pop up a little bit more. Are you
seeing that more local students are choosing to stay and
study in the regions rather than moving, you know, to
Adelaide or interstate.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, very much.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
So.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
For so many years, the only option really if you
wanted to go to university was to pack up and
leave and head to Adelaide. And we know that that
can as much as double the cost of a degree,
so it's really expensive for regional students to have to leave.
And on top of that, there's actually a lot of
people in our region who don't want to go to Adelaide.
(12:57):
They actually, quite likely they live and they want to
stay in their own communities. And that's where UNIHUB has
really been filling a gap for the last five or
six years. For AUSTER, it is all about how do
we encourage people in our communities to stay locally, to
study locally, and importantly, to gain employment locally those in
(13:17):
those professions.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Would you say you've seen a boost in more opportunities
for our regional students.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So one hundred percent. So every single one of our
graduates so far has gained employment in a regional community
in their chosen profession. So it's certainly having a really
significant impact, not only you know, in terms of the
student and their career prospects in the region, but also
you know, in filling those areas of critical skilled workforce
(13:47):
needs that we really have.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Looking ahead, what initiatives are in place to make sure
we continue having more regional education and training in the future.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
UNI HUBB We've got three areas of focus. So the
first is that we provide dedicated university study center facilities
or study hub facilities in our larger regional towns right
across the Spencer Golf so Port Lincoln, but also in
Port Augusta, Port Pirie, the Proper Coast and also at
(14:19):
Roxby Downs. But on top of that, we also have
a really strong focus in supporting those qualifications that our
region really needs. So it's things like nursing, it's teaching, engineering,
social work and allied health, business accounting, surveying, urban planning,
and so we partner with different universities from right across
(14:41):
the country to support what's called a blended learning delivery methods.
So the university, the student enrolls with a partner university
and that content is delivered online, but through UNI Hub
we provide the local wrap around face to face support
for that student, which includes you know, engagement with the
employer in an industry sector that they'll be moving into
(15:03):
in terms of their profession. But the third really really
important component is building aspiration and awareness for just the
huge range of career opportunities that are actually available right
here in our own backyard and the study pathways that
are available locally into those careers without living your communities.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
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I heard, I'm Jackie lim with iHeart essay. Today we're
tackling a challenge that's front of mind for businesses, communities
and educators alike. The skills shortage right across South Australia.
From construction and healthcare to advanced manufacturing and agriculture, demand
for skilled workers has never been greater. In this episode,
(00:22):
we'll explore once behind the skills gap, the impact it's
having on local industries, and how the regions are working
to fill those gaps through training, innovation and community partnerships.
First up, I spoke to Minister for Training and Skills
Blair Boyer about how essays five technical colleges are changing
the landscape of high school education.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
A very large piece of work was done that took
the best part of twenty twenty two to work with
employers and industries right across South Australia to identify areas
of greatest need in terms of skilled shortages and future
skilled demand. That really informed what we we are offering
at our tech colleges, particularly in the two regional locations
(01:04):
which are Port Agusta. And that has already opened and
he's operational and he's full and the Limestone Coast Tech
College which is in Mount Gambia and we're open for
the first day of the twenty twenty six school years.
So we didn't just pluck qualifications or the streams that
we offer each tech college out of thin air. It
was all based on a lot of hard data that
(01:26):
we take, but also engagement with industries, particularly in regional areas,
to make sure that these tech colleges could really be
long term contributors to tackling skill shortages which we know
are often felt more acutely in regional parts of Australia
and giving the young people who go through them the
best chance of getting a really good job.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
What makes the regional roll out so important in terms
of addressing their skill shortages and what skills are we
really targeting.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Nailing down on well.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
The two really defining features of the regional tech colleges
in Port Agusta and Mount gambiacommodation that we've built in
both of them. I don't think the public education system
in South Australia has built accommodation for students maybe since
nineteen seventy ish when Lucindale had a sort of boarding
house built as part of it. So this really is
(02:15):
something that we haven't done for a very long time.
We are focusing on civil resources, which won't come as
a surprise given the opportunities around mining and things like that.
In the Upper Spencer Gulf area. Cookery and purism was
one that came through really strongly in that area in
the stakeholder engagement that we did. Health and social support
(02:35):
that one, I have to say, comes up in every
single stakeholder engagement we do, particularly in regional areas where
they're struggling to find people to care for elderly people
or people with disability or something like that. And then
multi trades, whether it's carpentry or plumbing, electro tech to
be a sparky and then agritech that's what the two
(02:56):
tech colleges are offering, including accommodation largely based onf I
held a lot of work that we did with industry
in the area.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And will these sorts of focuses be changed, and you know,
will there be new courses added or some taken away
as things changed, particularly with defense and all of that.
In the Orchest Agreement, of course, you know, we want
to get people skewed up in those areas right across essay,
not just in our regions, but it'd be great if
some of our regional residents ended up, you know, working
(03:24):
on these on these subs and all of those sorts
of things. That could be pretty awesome to see that.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So it's a good Yeah, it's a great point that
that's a really good point for a couple of reasons. Yes,
the opportunity that aucust presents are It's hard to overstate
how significant an opportunity it is for the South Australian
economy in terms of our ability to kind of sort
of restructure at posts losing a traditional manufacturing we had
with Mitsubishi and Holden. I will say those multi trades
(03:53):
streams at Portagusta and the Limestone Coast Tech College, there
is an enormous demand for work is in traditional trades
as part of Aucus, including sparky at electro tech and
things like that. So there will be opportunities through defense
as part of those streams. But you touched upon a
really good point there when you said can they change
(04:14):
in the future, And the answer is yes, they can.
And I think your listeners will, certainly the older people
tuning in, we'll all remember tech colleges or trade schools
of yesteryear, and they were a mainstay of the Australian
education system, particularly here in South Australia. They were kind
of locked into providing certain skills because we had now
we made cards for so long, so churning out automotive
(04:37):
trades was there kind of bread and butter, and the
jobs were there. The issue was when our economy changed
and we lost some of that. They weren't built in
a way that would enable them to change what they offered,
so they were kind of stuck in still providing and
producing workers in areas that no longer had demand. We
have not made the same mistake with these five technol
(05:00):
They are made in a way so as you said,
in five or ten years, if the skills demand of
South Australia change and we need more of something or
less of something, these buildings can change to accommodate that.
Because my observation now almost four years into this role
is the need for tech colleges never went away. It
(05:22):
never went away. In fact, I reckon it only increased.
The problem was the tech colleges we had weren't able
to change with the times, and we've made a big
problem for ourselves and we're sort of lying in a
bet of our own making now that we need an
enormous increase in VET trained workers in South Australia, like
seventy nine thousand additional in the next five years. But
(05:43):
we need to be telling young people you don't need
to go to university for a great career. We need
to be telling them it's a first class option, not
a second class option. Otherwise we are not going to
have the workforce to do the residential work building of homes. Also,
things like Orchid.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, definitely, well make it less of a fly in
flyout situation, particularly as well for the Spencer Golf and
Mid North sort of areas. With all of the renewables
coming online. You know, we don't want people just hanging
out there for a month taking up all of the
space in the hotels and stuff. That cuts down on
tourism as well. We want the people that are there
to do the jobs.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
That's a great point as well. Not everyone wants to
go to the city to work and live. I meet
people across our state all the time who want to
stay in their regional area and work and live and
that's a fantastic thing. But that means you need to
overkforce that those areas need locally. See if you can
get the teaching jobs, the police jobs, the nursing jobs,
the trade jobs to local people who want to stay
(06:41):
in the area, instead of us having to continually look
at ways of enticing people from outside of the area
to come and live and work there, because there's always
the higher risk, as you identified, that they will return
home at some point and will lose them, or that
they'll be there in a fly in fly out basis
using accommodation that the area might otherwise I want to
use for tourists and those kinds of opportunities. So these
(07:02):
are also about growing the workforce locally, good job opportunities
for local people locally.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So what keeps you optimistic about South Australia's skills future,
especially for our regions.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
We're willing to do things differently here. The things we've
done with Picnical colleges as a great example. No one
else is doing this. We are leading the way and
I think, you know, it might be five or ten
years we'll look back and say we made the right
decision that gave our students the best opportunity to succeed
and for South Australia to fill all those vital skills vacancies.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
We'll have more after the breaks.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
My heart ESSO, welcome back.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
We just heard from our Minister for Training and Skills
about the state's' efforts to tackle the skills shortage and
build our future workforce. Will now narrow our focus on
the defense sector, and we'll also head to the Spenser
Golf to hear from the CEO of an interesting UNI initiative.
Our reporter Jenny Lenman caught up with Minister for Innovation
and Science Joe Skag who has this week attended a
(08:03):
defense conference talking all things ucus.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
So Interepak is the largest maritime defense conference and trade
exhibition in our region. It's one of those mega conferences,
twenty five thousand people, the highest of defense, government and
military representatives from as far from the UK, the US
and everything in between. The really keen focus of our
(08:27):
government this year has been to continue the momentum of
which we're building with our local businesses and local industry
as they continue to grow capacity and build capacity to
supply into those really important global defense supply chains. And
what that means is everything from the most important and
the most technical of national endeavors. That is the building
(08:48):
of the SSN Orcus submarines in the US, the UK
and eventually right here in South Australia, or whether it
be working down other like minded partners and allies across
the region. As our defense industries build into their own
supply chains. We're working really closely with our Japanese partners,
(09:10):
with our partners in Korea, in our partners in content
of Europe. Because the world is really complex in respect
to the geopolitical challenges, the major industrial partners from around
the world are continuing to diversify where they want a
need to manufacture. The really keen focus of ours is
to ensure that South Australian businesses get to play the
(09:32):
biggest part that they possibly can in those endeavors, right,
and with.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
That comes a lot of new skills. Right, we need
to be upskilling people and it's a lot more complicated
than the old manufacturing we used to do.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
It's very different from traditional manufacturing, but I've got to
say at the same time, it is everything like what
we have been doing in South Australia for generations. So
many people and in fact so many of the businesses
that now develop and supply into the vent industry. Supply
chains have spun out of automative manufacturing, They've spun out
(10:04):
of Phillips, a really old traditional manufacturer in South Australia
decades ago. So whilst it is absolutely correct to say
that there's a significant skills and jobs and employment challenge
before us to grow the workforce, we're also seeing the
advanced manufacturing, whether it goes into cars, whether it goes
into submarines, is something that our state does just incredibly well.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I imagine also that'd be kind of a knock on
effect in terms of the more that you do within
the country and within South Australia, the more materials we
rely on, and it creates more and more jobs in
that way.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
It's a great point. Yeah, every single dollar that is
spent in vanced manufacturing or any type of manufacturing in
our state has massive flow and effects. We see that
it's good for jobs, it's good for families, it's good
for those materials suppliers. You know, we're working really closely
as part of the investment that our governments make into
a sovereign capability for steel. We want to see still
(11:04):
that is manufactured in Wyala be used as part of
some of these important national endeavors. So, whether it's using innovation,
whether it's seeing research and development advancement, or whether it
is seeing that direct flow on with jobs as we
grow manufacturing, grow industries and invest more in skills, it
(11:24):
has really significant flow on effect. It's also really really
important that we see that people that may have had
other careers, maybe in trades, maybe in engineering, maybe in
building and construction, potentially choosing to become an educator as
a career change or as a later point in life.
We've got to take a holistic approach to this and
(11:45):
encourage all the people, the right people jump in and
undertake these really important jobs and roles and functions weaving
into the future.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And finally, today our journal import Lincoln Brooks Saychelles broke
to CEO of UNI Hubspencer Golf and need a course
how local year twelve graduates no longer need to relocate
for UNI.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Our mission is to improve accessibility of tertiary education delivered
locally into our communities and also to help grow our
own skilled workforce for locals right across our region without
having to leave home.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
So are you seeing now that we've had these sort
of facilities pop up a little bit more. Are you
seeing that more local students are choosing to stay and
study in the regions rather than moving, you know, to
Adelaide or interstate.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, very much.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
So.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
For so many years, the only option really if you
wanted to go to university was to pack up and
leave and head to Adelaide. And we know that that
can as much as double the cost of a degree,
so it's really expensive for regional students to have to leave.
And on top of that, there's actually a lot of
people in our region who don't want to go to Adelaide.
(12:57):
They actually, quite likely they live and they want to
stay in their own communities. And that's where UNIHUB has
really been filling a gap for the last five or
six years. For AUSTER, it is all about how do
we encourage people in our communities to stay locally, to
study locally, and importantly, to gain employment locally those in
(13:17):
those professions.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Would you say you've seen a boost in more opportunities
for our regional students.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So one hundred percent. So every single one of our
graduates so far has gained employment in a regional community
in their chosen profession. So it's certainly having a really
significant impact, not only you know, in terms of the
student and their career prospects in the region, but also
you know, in filling those areas of critical skilled workforce
(13:47):
needs that we really have.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Looking ahead, what initiatives are in place to make sure
we continue having more regional education and training in the future.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
UNI HUBB We've got three areas of focus. So the
first is that we provide dedicated university study center facilities
or study hub facilities in our larger regional towns right
across the Spencer Golf so Port Lincoln, but also in
Port Augusta, Port Pirie, the Proper Coast and also at
(14:19):
Roxby Downs. But on top of that, we also have
a really strong focus in supporting those qualifications that our
region really needs. So it's things like nursing, it's teaching, engineering,
social work and allied health, business accounting, surveying, urban planning,
and so we partner with different universities from right across
(14:41):
the country to support what's called a blended learning delivery methods.
So the university, the student enrolls with a partner university
and that content is delivered online, but through UNI Hub
we provide the local wrap around face to face support
for that student, which includes you know, engagement with the
employer in an industry sector that they'll be moving into
(15:03):
in terms of their profession. But the third really really
important component is building aspiration and awareness for just the
huge range of career opportunities that are actually available right
here in our own backyard and the study pathways that
are available locally into those careers without living your communities.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
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