Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

I can happily give guarantees that pilots will, of course, have to operate within existing industrial relations arrangements. Where they are delivering qualifications, they will have to deliver qualifications that deliver upon the competencies within those qualifications. I am very happy to give Senator Cameron the assurances he might seek in relation to the fact that industrial arrangements will be met and skills will be against the competencies that are required for qualifications that are delivered as part of apprenticeship frameworks.

Importantly, this program is about the Turnbull government recognising that we need people trained in vocational education and apprenticeships, that the reality is that we have had a downturn in numbers, which started under the previous Labor government, and that we want to trial different methodologies to see whether we can get an apprenticeship model that encourages both employers and young people to increase their participation in apprenticeships into the future.