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From the desk of the CEO-February 2017

February 2017-Newsletter address


The February newsletter is our last release branded as SkillsDMC and I want to invite all of you to stay with us and continue following our journey. From the 1st of March, SkillsDMC will evolve into the new Sustainable Skills brand and the www.skillsdmc.com.au website will move to www.sustainableskills.org, which includes a totally re-designed e-shop offering the entire range of learning and assessment SkillsDMC resources.

To be part of our community sign up to the new sustainableskills.org website, and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter

After 20 years’ history as the Industry Skills Council for the Resources and Infrastructure Industries, five years ago SkillsDMC decided to extend this expertise to the development of vocational education and training (TVET) systems worldwide. Since then, we have helped a number of countries to improve their TVET systems including Mozambique, Zambia, Vietnam, The Philippines, and Timor Leste. We want to continue down this path, applying our proved methodology across a broader range of industries and sectors.

We believe that our expertise together with the Australian TVET best practice can support the development of successful vocational education systems, particularly in emerging countries, to ensure equal access to quality education, lifelong learning, and job opportunities for all.


To pursue our new goals, I spent most of this month travelling to different African countries. I took the opportunity to visit the Mining Indaba exhibition in Cape Town, where I observed an increased attention to the critical role of vocational education in the development of the mining sector in Africa.

The exhibition has been a great opportunity to set up inspiring meetings, such as the one with Moses Njeru, Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya Chamber of Mines.  Kenya needs to develop a technical and vocational education and training (TVET) system able to form highly skilled local workforces, ready to face the challenge of new technologies that are currently transforming local industries from manufacturing to agriculture. The discussion has continued in Nairobi, where I met with Dan Kazungu, Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Mining, to explore how  SkillsDMC can assist the Ministry with capacity building within the Technical Vocational Education & Training System.


During the first week of March, I’ll be part of a mission to Indonesia, organised by Austrade, as a stage in the negotiations process for the  Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement. On the occasion, we’ll officially launch Sustainable Skills as our new brand and, once again, we hope you will stay with us.

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