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Engineers Australia
Unless Australia’s skilled migration program is overhauled, and more support provided to migrants and employers, our nation’s engineering capability is at risk.
That is the warning from Engineers Australia in its submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration inquiry into Australia’s skilled migration program.
Engineers Australia CEO Dr Bronwyn Evans said that while demand for engineers was high, the outcomes for migrant engineers proved the current system was no longer working.
“We desperately need skilled migration to fill the gap between the number of engineers required and what universities and the local market can supply. Yet once here, overseas-born engineers experience higher unemployment (7.6%) than their Australian-born peers (3.7%), and only 40.9% end up working in an engineering role,” Dr Evans said.
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Learning and collaboration key to unlocking innovation
Australian workers and their businesses are at high risk of getting left behind unless employers make significant changes to their workplaces post-COVID, according to a first of its kind Australian survey by the Centre for the New Workforce at Swinburne University of Technology.
In this unprecedented era of disruption, the survey found that more than half of Australian workers do almost no learning at work (less than an hour a week), despite three in five workers saying are concerned they don’t have the skills required for the next five years.
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