Tag: education

6,800 extra tech workers in migration cap lift

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The federal government has committed to opening 6,800 extra permanent migration places for workers in the tech sector among a spate of other announcements made on the final day...

Regional tech firms call for greater community investment

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Representatives at the jobs and skills summit from tech companies based in regional Australia have called for greater investment in regional communities to support the workforce required. Tasmania-based seaweed...

A ‘nation of innovation’ can tackle climate change

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Of the new crop of members in the House of Representatives delivering maiden speeches on Tuesday evening, Labor’s Sally Sitou was up first, as Independent Zoe Daniel closed the...

NSW AgTech suppliers wanted for Farms of the Future

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The NSW Government’s $48 million program to improve the uptake of AgTech is open for applications from companies tech companies focused on agriculture that want to become panel suppliers....

Three new P-TECH schools for NSW

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Newly-appointed NSW Skills and Tertiary Education minister Dr Geoff Lee has told an IBM conference in Sydney on Wednesday that the state will expand the lauded Pathways in Technology...

Govt unveils new engineering push

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Industry Minister Karen Andrews will this morning unveil new details of a $6.2 million schools-based program to produce a bigger pool of potential engineering students from across the nation....

Budget concerns for science leaders

Posted on   |  by James Riley
While the Coalition budget’s science announcements hold one marquee boost to the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), there was precious little to impress science leaders in other areas and...

$12 million added to SA space push

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government has pledged an additional $12 million to the local space sector, with a new mission control centre and education facility to be established in Adelaide. But...

‘Enormous’ skills shift needed

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government needs to invest in and support an “enormous” skill shift to help Australians adapt to the future of work, a new Google-commissioned report has found. The report,...