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"Life changing skills start here." ETC helps people build skills for the future they want employment, training and community, all in one place.
This National Skills Week, life changing → nationalskillsweek.com.au (RTO 6998)
Aug 17
Women make up just 9% of apprentices in New South Wales. Building and construction are still male-dominated but the opportunities are there, they`re well-paid, and they`re wide open. If you`d rather build something real than sit behind a desk, the trades want you.
This National Skills Week, life changing → nationalskillsweek.com.au
Aug 17
"Skills Queensland needs." Training for the industries the state relies on — TAFE Queensland is where they start.
This National Skills Week, life changing → nationalskillsweek.com.au
Aug 16
"Where skills meet research." Applied science and engineering built on real-world skills — at UQ, the lab and the workshop speak the same language.
This National Skills Week, life changing → nationalskillsweek.com.au
Aug 15
Some people walk into the Basement Soup Kitchen in Toowoomba for a meal. They walk out with a qualification.
Base Services runs Second Shot, delivering accredited hospitality training to people facing homelessness, addiction, family breakdown and mental ill health, supported by the Queensland Government’s Skilling Queenslanders for Work program.
Co-Founders Nat and Tiffany Spary put it best: “Now people might come in for a meal, but they end up doing a traineeship and serving someone else a meal. What’s even better is that they go on to work somewhere else.”
More than 300 people have come through Second Shot in ten years. It was named the 2025 Queensland Training Awards Community Initiative of the Year.
This year’s National Skills Week theme is Life Changing. At a community level, this is exactly what that looks like.
Link in bio for more on Skilling Queenslanders for Work.
#NationalSkillsWeek #NationalSkillsWeek2026 #LifeChanging #VET #SkillingQueenslandersForWork Toowoomba Hospitality SecondChances QueenslandJobs Traineeship
Aug 15
Some people walk into the Basement Soup Kitchen in Toowoomba for a meal. They walk out with a qualification.
Base Services runs Second Shot, delivering accredited hospitality training to people facing homelessness, addiction, family breakdown and mental ill health, supported by the Queensland Government’s Skilling Queenslanders for Work program.
Co-Founders Nat and Tiffany Spary put it best: “Now people might come in for a meal, but they end up doing a traineeship and serving someone else a meal. What’s even better is that they go on to work somewhere else.”
More than 300 people have come through Second Shot in ten years. It was named the 2025 Queensland Training Awards Community Initiative of the Year.
This year’s National Skills Week theme is Life Changing. At a community level, this is exactly what that looks like.
Link in bio for more on Skilling Queenslanders for Work.
#NationalSkillsWeek #NationalSkillsWeek2026 #LifeChanging #VET #SkillingQueenslandersForWork Toowoomba Hospitality SecondChances QueenslandJobs Traineeship
Aug 15
Four years on, the message hasn`t aged. A universe of skills, a thousand ways in — and a country that still needs every one of them. National Skills Week 2026 runs August 24–30. Life Changing → nationalskillsweek.com.au
Aug 15
"The right start." School-leaver or career-changer, MEGT pairs the right opportunity with the right support, so the beginning actually leads somewhere.
This National Skills Week, life changing → nationalskillsweek.com.au
Aug 14
