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NATIONAL EDUCATION
DTC Benefits from SADI Changes
May 2021 Defence Business
New Shipbuilding Course
of education and training courses to help job seekers
Guidelines have been amended to broaden eligibility
secure employment in the growing shipbuilding sector.
requirements for skilling and training and for training
It contains 80 short courses from 28 national education
providers under the Skilling Australia’s Defence Industry
and training providers, including bridging and specialist
(SADI) program.
courses, and 600 entry-level courses that are offered
The aim is to give defence industry businesses greater
in universities or TAFEs in every state and territory.
access to grants, which are designed to grow the skills
Australia’s Naval Shipbuilding Enterprise will employ
of Australia’s defence industry.
more than 15,000 people – with trades to PhDs – to
Businesses can now apply for grants for a number
design, build, integrate and sustain Australia’s future
of activities to help Australian businesses to become
fleet of naval vessels.
‘defence ready’. As a result of the changes, the Defence Teaming Centre is using a SADI grant to provide a Diploma of Digital Technologies course. The current intake comprises
In addition, the College has developed a catalogue
HMAS Ballarat patrols her assigned search area during the search for missing Indonesian submarine KRI Nanggala.
STEM Renewal The Schools Pathway Program – which aims to boosting interest in STEM subjects – will continue until 2021-22,
16 participants who represent 14 different Australian
A new naval shipbuilding ‘taster course’ endorsed by
the government has announced. The Program is a key
defence SMEs.
Australia’s defence industry has been rolled out to its
initiative of the Defence Industry Skilling and STEM
The Skilling Australia’s Defence Industry (SADI) program
first cohort of students across Australia. The Introduction
Strategy and is designed to improve access for secondary
offers grants of up to half a million dollars to support
to Naval Shipbuilding course was developed by the
students to defence industry career pathways by
the skilling needs of eligible small to medium businesses.
Naval Shipbuilding College and industry and will be
engaging in interactive STEM-based activities.”
SADI can now support defence industry in technical
delivered through TAFE SA. The online course is offered
Initiatives being funded through the program include the
and trade skills training, improved human resources
by TAFE SA but will be available to students across
SUBS in Schools challenge, a national challenge in which
practices, apprenticeship supervision, and on-the-job
Australia to learn about the Government’s National
school teams design and build operational Remotely
training. Other types of eligible training include design,
Naval Shipbuilding Enterprise – including key concepts,
Operated Vehicles or submarines. The Schools Pathway
engineering, project/program management and logistics.
terminology and projects. This will put the students
Program will also fund the Advanced Technology
It also includes training to enhance understanding
on a pathway to gaining employment within the
Program, which links schools with defence industry
of Commonwealth Government processes, such as
enterprise. The focus is on preparing students for
through Space education. More than 189,000 students
procurement services and Defence operations, and
the shipbuilding jobs of the future and ensuring they
from metropolitan and regional areas have engaged
support services, including information technology
have the appropriate skills and experience as the
with defence industry organisations through their
and cyber security.
Enterprise expands.
participation in the program.
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