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 21st century vocational education.”
Monday 31 August, 2009.
I would like to acknowledge a debt of gratitude to Dr Helen Smith for [...]

After a huge week of dedication, activity, focus and determination the 2009 WorldSkills International competition closed last night!  A fantastic ceremony with near enough to 4,000 people in the historical hockey ground at Stampede Park here in Calgary.  Check out WorldSkills TV to get a better idea of the noise, colour and jubilation from the [...]

I am a third year student of the Mount Royal University Environmental Science Program. As my summer work term I have been working with WorldSkills Calgary 2009 and obtaining credits for my program. WorldSkills Calgary has been an excellent place to work and learn, and I have gained some valuable experience. I started at WorldSkills [...]

OECD. Capitalising on WorldSkills, the OECD held a one day conference/showcase titled “Competing for Skills: VET in the 21st Century”. What the presentations from member countries clearly showed was that the global policy agenda has coalesced around a set of very similar ideas about how VET can be deployed to help solve economic problems. This [...]

In 2008 at the WorldSkills Australia National Skill Competition held at Darling Harbour and team joined the world of WorldSkills for the first time ever and it was the Green Team!  Teams of Event Management students from TAFE joined with Environmental Management students from university, under the guidance of a lead auditor, to assess the [...]

Its the beginning of Day 4 here at WorldSkills, Calgary and its been an truly amazing experience up till now.  Don’t think of it as a Trade Show or even as something like an Olympics - it really is a world of its own.
The Calgary Stampede Park is a huge, spread out venue and everyday [...]

Worldskills is just around the corner, check out what’s happening on the DSF website to celebrate here

Over the past week there’s been lots of attention on green jobs - I went to the launch of the report ” Who are the Green Collar Workers?”, then was part of a workshop discussion at Powershift 2009 on “What is a green job?”. Through the Trade Secrets project we’ve been capturing the [...]

More good news for Y Greeners! It looks like the Victorian Govt will follow in the footsteps of the ACT Govt and require all homeowners to have a home  sustainability assessment before they sell their house. Hopefully it’s only a matter of time before all States follow suit. This means guaranteed ongoing work for all [...]

Great news - just heard from Sustainability Victoria (owners of the TAFE course that Y Green participants complete) that they are currently mapping their course against the Green Loans course with a view to upgrading tit so that participants will be dual accredited …and able to be registered as Green Loans Assessors. From my [...]