Training the aging
Skills shortage and aging population needs be addressed by training
A major national training organisation has called for a targeted and coordinated approach to deal with the multiple challenges of an aging population and a skills shortage.
Chairman of Education Training & Employment Australia, Alan Hickling, said the federal government needed to look at immigration and refugee intake to address both these issues.
Mr Hickling said with a higher and aging population, the country would need more nurses and doctors with many people currently heading into retirement.
“This is why we need the dedication and enthusiasm brought to this country by refugees and immigrants,” he said.
Australia has a massive shortfall of 1300 doctors, and 13,000 nurses. Of those nurses that we do have, 20 per cent of them are aged over 55 -- which means that one-fifth of our current workforce of nurses is about to retire. The same can be said for engineering and aged care where the situation is now perilous.
A major national training organisation has called for a targeted and coordinated approach to deal with the multiple challenges of an aging population and a skills shortage.
Chairman of Education Training & Employment Australia, Alan Hickling, said the federal government needed to look at immigration and refugee intake to address both these issues.
Mr Hickling said with a higher and aging population, the country would need more nurses and doctors with many people currently heading into retirement.
“This is why we need the dedication and enthusiasm brought to this country by refugees and immigrants,” he said.
Australia has a massive shortfall of 1300 doctors, and 13,000 nurses. Of those nurses that we do have, 20 per cent of them are aged over 55 -- which means that one-fifth of our current workforce of nurses is about to retire. The same can be said for engineering and aged care where the situation is now perilous.
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