NECA has announced it is now in the ‘establishment’ phase of the ‘Electrical Innovative Delivery and Pathways Project’ – referred to as the Alternative Pathways Project or APP.

The association says it hopes to be well into the implementation phase by the end of October.

NECA has developed a comprehensive flyer outlining the nine elements involved in the APP which can be found here.

NECA does not support either fully-institutionalised training or two-year apprenticeships – neither of which feature is in this project.

This is an exciting development as the APP is the realisation of all the hard work that went into “MAPS” – where the organisation engaged with 500 employers and a range of other stakeholders at the conclusion of the project. The Employer Engagement strand of MAPS drew views from apprentices, employers and a broad cross-section of training institutions to fully understand what people thought was working and/or could be further enhanced in apprentice training and development.

NECA believes the current mix of on-the-job training and theoretical training should go hand-in-hand throughout an apprentice’s training and development.  And this pilot builds on that model – which is supported by the Australian Government Department of Education & Training, under Apprenticeship Training.