{"id":635348,"date":"2026-04-28T02:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635348\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T02:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:58:10","slug":"australia-needs-more-tradies-not-university-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635348\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia needs more tradies, not university graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Industry Group (AIG) has released an <a href=\"https:\/\/cet.australianindustrygroup.com.au\/globalassets\/news\/reports\/2026\/research_note_apprenticeships_commencements_apr_2026.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alarming report<\/a> on the decline in trade apprenticeships.<\/p>\n<p>The latest data on Australia\u2019s apprenticeship system, released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), show that in the 12 months to September 2025, trade apprenticeship commencements are down almost 10%, while non-trade commencements (traineeships) are down just over 18%.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Trade-apprenticeships.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"504\" alt=\"Trade apprenticeships\"\/><\/p>\n<p>These declines are described as \u201cthe canary in the coalmine\u201d for future skills shortages.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian Industry Group (AIG) has released an alarming report on the decline in trade apprenticeships. The latest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-635348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}