Industry Partners

At Ntec we work with local industry sectors, industry training boards, the Inner Northern Local Learning and Employment Network (INLLEN), schools, unions, TAFEs and Group Training companies to facilitate students' entry into apprenticeships, traineeships and further education, in particular at TAFE institutes, on completion of their courses.

For a significant period of time, industry and secondary education sectors have tended to work in isolation from each other.
At Ntec we have broadened the traditional notion of 'industry', i.e. the companies and the 'shop floor', to include related sectors, in particular employment agencies, TAFEs, Job Pathway Programs, unions, Industry Training Boards
and industry associations.
Ntec will work directly with industry through the formation of local industry groups. The initial groups (Auto, Furnishing and Engineering) are in the process of formation.

This engagement and partnership with local industry and allied groups seeks to:

* Provide a means for education and industry to respond to each other's needs and concerns on the basis of a partnership founded on mutual respect and shared interests.
* Ensure the flow of skilled and motivated young people into industry sectors of strategic local, regional and state importance.
* Ensure that young people who decide on employment in these sectors do so as a first option based on real information, have clearly developed employable skills and are conscious of how their careers might develop.
* Under-pin long-term regional skills needs and economic development potential
* Develop close partnership with local TAFEs so as to guarantee that there will be no duplication of resources or efforts in this transition process.
* Broaden the responsibility for the learning needs and outcomes for students to include local industry sectors.
* Actively encourage local industry responsibility for the definition and resolution of their skill shortages.
* Create a sustainable and 'seamless' school-to-work and training process. Genuine industry-school partnerships provide the base for the sustainability of Ntec programs and their best practice objectives.

For more information contact Daniel Knott, Ntec@nsc, Tel. 9478 1333
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Reference Group
· Michael Grogan, CEO, Sutton Tools Australia & NZ - Chair
· Noel Benton, Chairman, Northern Stainless Steel Skills Development Group
· Shane Infanti, CEO, Australian Manufacturing Technology Institute Ltd (AMTIL)
· Tony Coppola, Executive Officer, Northern Area Consultative Committee
· Andrew Rimington, Senior Policy Advisor, Employment, Education and Training, Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce and Industry
· Ian Bridger, Manager, Manufacturing Development, Office of Manufacturing
· David Redfearn, Industry Officer, Inner Northern LLEN
· Sue La Greca, Manager Economic Development, Darebin City Council
· Frank Spranger, Economic Development Officer, Darebin City Council
· Cara McLaughlin, School Development, Later Years, Northern Region, Dept of Education and Training
· Mark Kelly, Executive Officer, Victorian Furnishing Industry Training Board
· Peter Canavan, Project Manager, Engineering Skills Training Board
· Wayne Theisinger, Head of Department Mechanical Manufacturing, NMIT
· Peter Harrison, General Manager, Industrial Technologies, Kangan Batman TAFE
· Trish van Lint, Manager, Northern Interactive Education Coordinated Area Program, RMIT
· Garry Hansen, Chair, Northern Melbourne Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group
· Graham Atkinson, Manager, Koori Employment Support Network
· Ralph Gwynne, CEO, Apprenticeships Plus
· Michael Howley, Services Manager, Mission Australia, Preston
· Mick Butera, Executive Director, NIETL / NORTH Link
· Leigh Hubbard, Secretary, Victorian Trades Hall Council
· Gayle Tierney, AMWU, Assistant State Secretary, Vehicle Division
· Raffaela Galati-Brown, Principal, Northland Secondary College
· Daniel Knott, Project Coordinator, Community Industry Partnerships, Ntec@nsc Michael Grogan Chair, Ntec@nsc