News & Updates

Key Apprenticeship Program: New Funding Available

News • 3 Jul 2025

Building the Workforce of the Future The Key Apprenticeship Program (KAP) is a vital government initiative aimed at supporting and growing the skilled workforce in…

Work & Training’s Hadi Rezaie honoured at prestigious awards

News • 8 Nov 2024

From his earliest years, Hadi Rezaie nursed an ambition to excel in dentistry. Today, that dream is a reality, with recently winning the exclusive Lance…

IntoWork reinspires career journey for long-time disability worker

News • 8 Nov 2024

After two decades in the disability sector, Melinda Harris knew it was time for a shift. Her rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis served as a catalyst, prompting…

Tassie Trainee to Join Esteemed Emerging Leaders’ Program in Canberra

News • 1 Nov 2024

Work & Training trainee Lukas Burns has been selected as one of just 25 young people from across Australia to participate in the prestigious National…

New Tourism & Hospitality Essentials Program Launches in Southern Tasmania 

News • 24 Jul 2024

In response to the growing demand for skilled workers in the hospitality sector1, Work & Training* has teamed up with Workforce Australia provider Workskills to…

In the news: National team nod more than just an opportunity to play rugby for Darcy

News • 24 Apr 2024

By Jacob Bevis, originally published in The Advocate 18 April 2024. Picture by Eve Woodhouse. For Darcy Beaven-Duncan, playing rugby with other people suffering from…

Solution to Tasmania’s Aged Care worker shortage

News • 24 Jan 2024

In a bid to help Tasmania’s critical healthcare worker shortage, a new program in Northern Tasmania and Launceston will help upskill migrants into Aged Care.…

Apprenticeships and traineeships celebrated at graduation ceremony

News • 1 Dec 2023

Leanne Wallace, Work & Training CEO, spoke to Triple M Breakfast host Tubes about the importance of apprenticeships and traineeships and the hundreds of Tasmanians…

Work & Training’s Maryam Azizi honoured at Tasmania’s top dental trainee

News • 14 Nov 2023

Listen to Maryam Azizi chatting to ABC Hobart recently HERE. Seven years ago Maryam Azizi arrived in Hobart knowing only one word of English. Now…