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igreen

igreen is a secondary school program which assists households in becoming more sustainable and creates opportunities for the development of green skills in young people. Watch the new 3-minute video that explains how the igreen home sustainability program works: a snapshot of the training, the work experience and the benefits from a range of stakeholder perspectives.

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MoVE

We want to know how young people become skilled at their trade and what happens during the training, work and competition stages of the journey towards skills excellence.We’re currently analyzing the data and whilst there’s more to be done one of the strongest emerging themes from the competitor data is the positive value of WorldSkills as a learning experience and opportunity to test skills and knowledge.

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Real Skills Real Work

DSF is partnering with Dare to Lead and the Ernabella Anangu School to develop a form of industry / employment in a remote indigenous community that offers local jobs that provides real pathways from school to work. This is a huge challenge because so few young boys/men even engage in the upper secondary years in their education.

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Green Team 2010

Building on the success of Green Team 2008 the WorldSkills Australia National Skills competition was again home to the Green Team!  Student volunteers from event management teamed up with students from university environmental courses to find out how sustainable are the categories at a WorldSkills competition.

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At Dusseldorp Skills Forum we believe that partnerships are key to our projects, research and advocacy work. Want to know more about who we’re working with? Click here.

As a Forum we are open to new people and new ideas. We are always on the look out for opportunities for collaboration. Interested in partnering with us or just want further information? Please get in touch.

We are keen to share our knowledge and skills. All our publications, research and resources are available online as are detailed descriptions of the projects we are involved with. You can also subscribe to our regular updates via email newsletter or follow us on twitter.

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about 12 days ago Registrations now open,NCVER Fostering enterprise: The innovation & skills nexus - http://www.tinyurl.com.au/foy
about 30 days ago excited about the new look website coming soon
28 Jul 2010 Australian Youth Mentoring Conference - now calling for abstracts http://www.tinyurl.com.au/ei8
17 Jun 2010 checking out the Evaluation of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program @ http://tinyurl.com/245o8ub
4 Jun 2010 an inspiring way to end the week! @ http://tinyurl.com/2emsqm6 - Ken Robinson
14 May 2010 Watch the GreenTeam2010 in action @ #WorldSkills http://tinyurl.com/22kj4u3
11 May 2010 Congrats to Bricklaying!- winners of 2010 Skills & Sustainability award presented by ARUP last night's@ WorldSkills Australia ceremony

Latest Resources

  • Keynote Speech - Canada-Alberta International Conference
    “Competing for Skills: Vocational Education and Training in the 21st Century”
    Keynote address: Mr. Tjerk (Jack) Dusseldorp, President, WorldSkills International “Where there’s a skill there’s a way: enabling innovation and change through...
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Latest Projects

  • Ern MacDonald Fellowship
    Start 2006 The Ern MacDonald Fellowship, in memory of a great industrial relations visionary, launches the careers of talented young tradespeople. Supported by project partners, the MacDonald family, Dusseldorp Skills Forum and WorldSkills Australia,...
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