The Future at Work - Foundations for Workforce Development in Southern Adelaide
This report details a Strategic Framework for Workforce Development in Southern Adelaide and outlines a range of recommendations that seek to lay the foundations for successful workforce development in the region1. It provides an introduction to the concept of workforce development and identifies key objectives to inform strategic planning.
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Monitoring Inequality
The Strategic Plan (SASP) contains 98 targets `to benchmark or measure our progress over time', and the Government has indicated that these will be assessed and published every two years. However, other than those targets specifically for the Aboriginal population, many do not directly address levels of inequality across the community. This web site provides an analysis of 29 targets (or supplementary measures) from the revised South Australia's Strategic Plan (January 2007), taking an inequality perspective. The intention in presenting the data in this way is to add another dimension to the information already available in the Plan.
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Complex not simple: The vocational education and training pathway from welfare to work
The welfare-to-work policy aims to encourage certain welfare recipients to pursue pathways that lead to paid employment. This report explores the role that the vocational education and training (VET) system can play in assisting people move from welfare to work. The researchers examined the experiences of VET students from the relevant welfare groups and sought the views of other key stakeholders such as TAFE staff and Centrelink personnel. Conclusions include that VET can play a positive role but that there needs to be collaboration between VET and income support sectors to ensure that potential barriers are overcome.
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AISR Seminar:The role of preparatory VET in building a pathway from welfare to work: Powerpoint Presentation
Date: Friday, 5 September 2008
The role of preparatory VET in building a pathway from welfare to work was hled on 29th august 2008. Please find the power point presentation by Dr Kate Barnett attached.
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AISR Seminar: The Role of the Workplace in Return to Work - A Research Perspective: Powerpoint Presentation
Date: Tuesday, 15 July 2008
The return to work of an injured worker is influenced by a range of factors - some that relate to the worker, some to the environment outside of the workplace, and some to the workplace itself. WorkCover SA commissioned the Australian Institute for Social Research to undertake a research project designed to increase understanding of factors in the workplace that affect the achievement of positive return-to-work outcomes. On Friday 11th July, Dr Kate Barnett with Ms. margaret Swincer from Workcover SA presented on this project. The powerpoint presentation by Dr Barnett is attached.
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The best of times and the worst of times
Date: Friday, 27 June 2008
Not since the post-war economic boom have we witnessed a period of economic growth as persistent as the current one.
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