Tamworth - Ten Network report

5 August 2009

AgriFood Skills Australia featured in a report about jobs and skills in regional areas, broadcast on Ten Network News on 5-6 August 2009 - AgriFood Skills Australia on Network Ten news report in Tamworth

The Ten News crew - reporter Frank Coletta and camerman Sean Boyd - explored the availability of regional jobs, skills and services in Tamworth and across the north west inland region of NSW. Tamworth is the 2009 Tidy Towns winner and typifies many other well developed regional town and city centres.
The report is set against rural and industrial backdrops in and around Tamworth and is based on a Regional Skills Summit that AgriFood held in Narrabri on 3 July.


CEO Arthur Blewitt with Ten reporter Frank Colleta

Those interviewed by Ten News include: AgriFood CEO Arthur Blewitt; Narrabri Mayor Robyn Faber; Tocal College Principal Dr Cameron Archer; the Director of Primary Industries Innovation Centre, Professor Bob Martin; Program Manager for Careers Network Inc (based at West Tamworth Public School) Debbi Taekata; the Community Officer for the Australian Cotton Research Institute, Kate Schwager; and the CEO of pasta manufacturer Bellata Gold, Doug Cush.

National Conference - griFood included a Regional Jobs Summit at the National AgriFood Conference in Sydney on 24-25 September. 

The conference set a strong national blueprint for regional skills, jobs, workforce development and policy reform, highlighting the vital role of agrifood to the national economy and raising key issues in terms of skills and workforce development. Follow this link for the conference web page:  NATIONAL CONFERENCE


Professor Bob Martin (foreground) with Cameron Archer 


Arthur Blewitt and Doug Cush

National approach to jobs in the regions - On 3 July, AgriFood hosted a Regional Jobs Summit in Narrabri in collaboration with the Northern Inland Regional Development Board (NIRDB). It attracted close to 100 people from various industry sectors, education, research and government agencies, who participated in a series of discussions, panels and presentations and in a subsequent working group, coordinated by AgriFood. FULL REPORT 

RTO Forum in Melbourne - AgriFood hosted its first national RTO Forum in Melbourne last week week (30 July), bringing together key RTOs. AgriFood CEO Arthur Blewitt and Training Products Manager David Greentree led discussions about the delivery of training packages under the AgriFood Bridging the gap approach, new policy changes to the national training system and industry expectations resulting from these changes. The forum presented speakers who were directly involved in recent policy review. RTO FORUM FLYER

 
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