WHEN: 19 Aug
WHERE: via Zoom
Advanced manufacturing is transforming the knowledge, skills and capabilities required across Australia’s manufacturing workforce. This seminar presents findings from research examining how the vocational education and training system contributes to preparing current and future workers for technology-rich manufacturing environments. Moving beyond narrow ideas of job readiness, the seminar explores how competence, capability, employability, curriculum, educator expertise, learner support, industry partnerships and progression pathways interact to shape workforce development. It highlights where VET is responding effectively, where challenges remain, and what TAFE, dual-sector providers, government and industry can do together to strengthen participation, adaptability and progression in advanced manufacturing nationally over time.
Presented by QUT PhD researcher, Jacqueline Greentree. Jacqueline has worked in a range of roles in government, schools and higher education. Jacqueline received her Bachelor of Business degree in Human Resource Management from CQU. She completed her Master of Philosophy at QUT in 2021 in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership. Her thesis investigated choices made by schools in presenting themselves to a broad audience through their websites and how Government policy may have impacted these choices. Her current research interests include education, government policy and the intersection in preparing people for the workplaces of the future. She has recently submitted her PhD for examination and is based at QUT in the Human-Robot Workforce program of the Australian Cobotics Centre.
