Empowering Business Education - Where Are We Headed?

Greetings! I am updating this on behalf of Leon, our industry liaison for this project. So, how are we going with our business partner, Pace Print in this project..

Well, Pace Print has experienced unprecedented volumes of production work during late May, June and July. To meet these demands the whole workforce has been stretched to the limit to cope with these seasonal demands. On top of all this, Greg and wife, Amelia (partner in the business) endured moving house and a serious accident with their little boy. It seems that thankfully the worst is over now and we wish the Pace family our sincere best wishes.

On a brighter note, Greg indicated that his printing operator was quite excited to be given the opportunity to be upskilled with a Certificate III in Printing and Graphic Arts (Pre-press). He has emphasised the need for Pace Print to keep "pace" (no pun intended) :) with the lightning speed of technological change. Moving forward Greg is confident that the proposed training will make Pace Print much more flexible in production and more importantly his staff will be much more resourced to cope with further expansion.

On the expansion note because of our E-Learning innovation Greg is expected to apprentice at least one person (possibly two) before the start of our program.

Leon will be attending a IBSA ICP10 Printing and Graphic Arts Training Package Professional Development Workshop on 25th August 2010. This is a face-to-face hands on workshop training that is available for the printing industry i.e. qualifications, where are we up to regarding modern training methods related to current competencies and qualifications, how to structure your training / qualifications to meet your commercial needs and the current status of traineeships / apprenticeships. This workshop will be useful in understanding further where Graphic Pre-press is headed. After recent industry consultation we have come to understand that traineeships / apprenticeships in Graphic Pre-press have in recent times become less popular. The professional development workshop may be useful to educate and unify thinking within the printing industry allowing us more opportunity to understand and meet the changing training requirements.

Exciting times ahead...full of challenges yet it is not impossible to achieve what we have set out to do.