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The Australian Apprenticeships Pathways website is an Australia wide information hub designed to help training organisations, apprenticeship centres and generally people considering career options, employers looking at recruitment and those providing support and advice.

Go to www.aapathways.com.au

Finding space to run face to face courses can be expensive and difficult. Vickie and her team make use of vacant training rooms around the country to meet the needs of training organisations. It's an interesting talk about how the business has dealt with the last 12 months. Enjoy!

5 Pro Tips and 6 Steps to creating an engaging 40 minute training session on ANY topic. How do I know this works? Because I've done it many, many times and shown people that it doesn't even need a lot of subject expertise OR technological know how.

I had a good chat with Paul Bashford - a regional charity owner who depends upon accredited training and government support to skill local individuals to increase their employability.

I've decided to cover the basic elements of developing and managing distance-based learning on the cusp of what could be a significant shift in our industry. As a face-to-face training lover, I've had to really re-think the value of e-learning and distance training methods.

Ok, this is just a short rant about quality in VET. Your comments are welcome - let's start the conversation!

Welcome to 2020 - and our first podcast for the new year. We have a treat for you - Claire Field is an icon win the VET sector. With decades of service to the greater VET community, her insights are always enlightening and interesting to those of us lucky enough to call the sector our own.

Lee is a celebrated author in the vocational sector. We chat about writing, learning and design and share a few opinions along the way.

Kerry Brocks has committed herself to the improvement of adult trainers and facilitators. In doing so, she has created a global network of professionals dedicated to her cause. The Institute of Learning Professionals (ILP)has now established an industry-wide standard of recognition. Our talk centres on the leadership skills required to start and maintain such an industry-changing phenomenon.

When running a small business, are there any real differences between regional and metropolitan training organisations? We chat to Mackay business owner Deb O'Shae to get her take on the specific things that make a successful regional RTO.