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Speaker 1: As I mentioned earlier, we know that Charles Dalwin University

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Speaker 1: has launched the CDU Tafe. It's a dedicated tafe area

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Speaker 1: focusing on future growth and job opportunities in the Northern

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Speaker 1: Territory and the more focused and streamlined structure well, it's

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Speaker 1: taken over from CDU's previous vocational education and training model,

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Speaker 1: which is the VET model. Now joining me on the

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Speaker 1: line to tell us more about the new tafe area

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Speaker 1: is CDU Tafe pro Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive Michael Hamilton.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Michael.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Katie. On this wet, wild, windy, wet season.

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Speaker 1: Days, it's pretty crazy out there, there is no doubt

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Speaker 1: about it. Michael, tell us a little bit more about

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Speaker 1: how this new tafe is going to operate.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, it's a very exciting time, not just for CDU,

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Speaker 3: but I think for Northern Territory really because we've established

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Speaker 3: ourselves in a way that we can service industry and

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Speaker 3: communities and students in a much more agile way and

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Speaker 3: very relevant and flexible to the individual needs of communities

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Speaker 3: and different areas around the Northern Territory. Because we are

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Speaker 3: the University of the Territory and look in recent years

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Speaker 3: we had contracted somewhat back to the urban environment, and

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Speaker 3: the methodology and the model that we were working within

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Speaker 3: in a very complex university system did sort of hamper

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Speaker 3: our agility in the marketplace. So we feel that the

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Speaker 3: new structure and the new CDU tape itself will service

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Speaker 3: industry so much better.

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Speaker 2: And so what makes it different to the previous.

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Speaker 3: Model, Well, I guess the biggest thing is that, as

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Speaker 3: I already mentioned, universities are quite complex in the way

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Speaker 3: that they're structured and the way that they go about

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Speaker 3: their business, and that's largely due to the self certifying

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Speaker 3: university higher education sector. And whilst you know that's to

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Speaker 3: ensure the integrity with the products that we offer in

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Speaker 3: our higher education portion of the business and with vocational

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Speaker 3: education nested within it, was also subject to the same

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Speaker 3: protocols and approval processes, which is often quite lengthy and complex.

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Speaker 3: And it's not that the new system will compromise integrity

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Speaker 3: in any way of our better offerings. It's just that

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Speaker 3: we don't need all of those checks because the vocational

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Speaker 3: sector is regulated in a much different way, and so

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Speaker 3: by having it as a dedicated portfolio with its own

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Speaker 3: specialized vocational systems. We're able to respond much quicker and

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Speaker 3: be more flexible to the requirements of industry.

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Speaker 2: And is the new model.

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Speaker 1: I know that it's been mentioned that the new model

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Speaker 1: is going to assist those living in remote and regional

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Speaker 1: areas a little bit better.

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Speaker 2: How's it going to do that?

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Speaker 3: Look, we've got to focus on reinvestment outside of Darwin

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Speaker 3: in particular. And even so, we've got as part of

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Speaker 3: the plan and part of the Tape model is to

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Speaker 3: install in places like Tenant Creek, nullam Boy and Alice

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Speaker 3: Springs certain functions and roles that have the ability to

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Speaker 3: you know, they're entrenched in the community that they understand

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Speaker 3: what's going on. They're part of the very fabric of

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Speaker 3: to provide a level of service in those areas and

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Speaker 3: respond as I said already because it's to the needs

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Speaker 1: And Michael, is there going to be new courses or

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Speaker 1: different kinds of courses for students that are wanting to study?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so, I mean we're already bringing several new courses

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Speaker 3: onto scope at the moment in cybersecurity, and there's some

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Speaker 3: it ones, but we're often I mean, we've looked to

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Speaker 3: the marketplace to develop our training profile. So we take

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Speaker 3: feedback and we work with nt government on their priority

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Speaker 3: skills list to ensure that what we offer industry and

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Speaker 3: the community is relevant and it's up to date and

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Speaker 3: it's meeting the needs of the workforce and for industry

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Speaker 3: across the region. So it's ever evolving. But what the

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Speaker 3: new structure and CDU tape will provide is that we

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Speaker 3: can do that so much quicker. We can respond very

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Speaker 3: fat yeah. Right, So if there's an immediate need, we

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Speaker 3: can put together a short skill set or a short

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Speaker 3: course if you like, very promptly under the new CDU

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Speaker 3: tape structure. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And so with some you know, I know that there

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Speaker 1: had been a federal government free Taste package or some

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Speaker 1: announcements in that space. Are there going to be some

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Speaker 1: of the courses that you'll be delivering that do fall

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Speaker 1: under that federal government free tape package.

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Speaker 3: Well, the uptakes from territoriums for free tape has been outstanding.

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Speaker 3: We're into week six of the free tape initiatives and

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Speaker 3: if already oversubscribed. So we've we've we've had thousands of

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Speaker 3: expressions of interest to to take enrollments in specified priority

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Speaker 3: courses and we will we will enroll those students under

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Speaker 3: the free tape methodology. But yeah, I mean it's just

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Speaker 3: been outstanding response.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome.

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Speaker 3: Thing is, yeah, on top of free tape, the actual

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Speaker 3: uptake of apprenticeships has been spectacular, which is which is

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Speaker 3: really heartening to see that industry are investing in our

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Speaker 3: own to bring more people into the into the work

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Speaker 1: I reckon, that is fantastic to hear, because you know,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't that. One of the things that you know

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Speaker 1: that COVID kind of showed us is that is that

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Speaker 1: we do need to grow our own and we do

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Speaker 1: need to invest in our young people or our mature

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Speaker 1: age students as well if they're wanting to study.

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Speaker 2: But we do need to grow our own.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. And look, there was worries, I guess,

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Speaker 3: you know, because federal sponsorship and incentives for employers to

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Speaker 3: engage apprentices actually reduced over the last twelve months, and

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Speaker 3: we thought that might impact but in fact it's gone

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Speaker 3: the other way. And I think just by the fact

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Speaker 3: that we had the pandemic and it did alter the

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Speaker 3: way people come and go from the Northern Territory. I

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Speaker 3: think they've just thought, you know what, let's just invest local,

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Speaker 3: and I think that is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that, you know, do you think that

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Speaker 1: some of these changes that are being made, and by

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Speaker 1: the offering of different courses and even the you know,

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Speaker 1: the free Tafe courses and that kind of thing, do

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Speaker 1: you think that it helps us to keep more of

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Speaker 1: our of our school leavers here in the Northern Territory

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 3: Look, I guess it's too early to tell, but you know,

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Speaker 3: just by the very nature an apprenticeship goes for four years,

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Speaker 3: and I think that's only got to be a positive

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Speaker 3: thing for the retention of skilled workers in the territory.

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Speaker 3: And we you know, we're we're quite open to looking

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Speaker 3: at other options as well to attract people to the

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Speaker 3: terror But how good is it to invest in our

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Speaker 3: own just to keep our own it's much more stable,

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Speaker 3: and you know, they're quite familiar with the territory and

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Speaker 3: the environment that they've lived in. I think investment in

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Speaker 2: I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: Now, have the facilities changed at all with the launch

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Speaker 1: of the new tape.

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Speaker 3: Look, it's business as usual. So our campuses are in

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Speaker 3: terms of infrastructure at the moment, are unchanged and it's

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Speaker 3: business as usual for existing students. I guess the difference

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Speaker 3: in the future will be our ability to be more

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Speaker 3: mobile and to provide a good level of service to

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Speaker 3: people that don't live in the urban environment, whether that's

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Speaker 3: regional or remote, and so that's where we're going to

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Speaker 3: concentrate our efforts in servicing those.

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Speaker 1: Regions and enrollments, as you said, from the get go,

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Speaker 1: they're looking good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so as that last week, because it's just changes

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Speaker 3: so much at this time in the year, day by day,

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Speaker 3: you know, just in the tasteboard file there, we've got

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Speaker 3: almost three and a half thousand enrollments, which is about

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Speaker 3: fifty percent up on the same time last year where

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Speaker 3: we had two thy four hundred. So it's up by

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Speaker 3: eleven hundred and we're only a week out of the year.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful stuff, Absolutely wonderful stuff. Well, pro Vice Chancellor and

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Speaker 1: Chief Executive at CDU TAFE, Michael Hamilton, I really appreciate

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Speaker 1: your time this morning. Thanks so much for having.

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Speaker 2: A chat with us.

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Speaker 3: Yes, thanks for your time.

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Speaker 2: Thank you