By Talc Admin on
30/05/2010 3:34 PM
New ideas emerge from everywhere in complex systems. It's a positive aspect of human society. It also raises challenges for the way we look at things. In the world of skills and learning a new idea has emerged over the last 10 years - seeking to redefine our understanding of the way we do things. Is it real, or is it just another academic thesis?
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By Talc Admin on
21/05/2010 2:56 PM
The T&L Skills Council has been mandated to pick up a range of new skills initiatives in the 2010 Commonwealth Budget. Geoff Gwilym, the CEO of the Skills Council, highlights the key points.
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By Talc Admin on
17/05/2010 8:31 AM
Industrial relations and workplace issues such as wages, working conditions and supervision are never far away from politics in Australia. In spite of the best efforts of the media and some social commentators, the concerns of workers and their situation in local and national politics keeps coming back.
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By Talc Admin on
11/05/2010 9:36 PM
The Commonwealth Budget 2010 is a milestone in integrated thinking between skills and infrastructure. For the first time, and after ten years of advocacy and research, industry has "got the message" across that skills and infrastructure are intimately linked. Now the real work can begin. Transport and Logistics stakeholders can start to take up the Government's programmes around their areas of concern - training, learning and workplace development.
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By Talc Admin on
4/05/2010 12:08 PM
Growth in the level and complexity of transport and logistics activity has placed a strong focus on the recognition and development of the industry’s professionals. Five prominent membership-based professional associations have responded by introducing a unified and standard approach to professional certification across Australia, under the auspices of the Transport and Logistics Certification Council.
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By Talc Admin on
21/04/2010 10:18 AM
The Faculty of Business and Economic at Macquarie University presents the Women, Management and Work Conference to be held in Sydney on 29 and 30 July 2010.
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By Talc Admin on
16/03/2010 5:36 PM
In a few short years the facts of climate change have been distorted, the science denigrated and the scientists chased and hounded by lobbyists and religious zealots. From a groundswell of possible reform and sensible policy, we have been placed in a corner from which my children and my grandchildren will pay a terrible price. It cannot be allowed to stand.
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By Talc Admin on
18/02/2010 8:31 PM
We know that there is a link between productivity and skills at the individual, enterprise, industry, sector and national level. More skills generally equals more productivity. Just how much and what is the benefit-cost analysis for T&L in terms of investment in education and training are the questions that need answers. There must be an answer somewhere. In 2003 TALC asked a PhD economics student to think about it and this is some of the response from that student.
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By Talc Admin on
29/01/2010 1:06 PM
Come along to The Industrial Relations Research Centre's Seminar on Truckers, Turnover and Accidents: Links to Cognitive Skills, Economic Preferences and Strategic Behaviour. Read on for more information!
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By Talc Admin on
17/01/2010 3:52 PM
W Edwards Deming remarked along these lines over 30 years ago. His words ring out in 2010 as true as they did then. If you can't measure, record, analyse and assess processes and systems in terms of real data, you cannot hope to manage or improve them. The alternative is guess work, blind faith and personal prejudice.
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