13 November 2008
TheSkills4Work Annual General Meeting is to be held on Thursday 4 December 2008 at 4.00pm at Skills4Work, 15a Vestey Drive, Mount Wellington, Auckland AGENDA APOLOGIES CHAIRMAN'S REPORT CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S REPORT ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31ST DECEMBER 2007 APPOINTMENT OF AUDITORS ADOPTION OF RULE CHANGES APPROVAL DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION GENERAL BUSINESS...
12 November 2008
TheWellington Region Apprentice of the Year Awards 2008 was held 29 October at the Unilever Cafeteria, Petone. The Awards are an opportunity celebrate success by our apprentices at every stage of the journey and to network with other like-minded businesses. Congratulations to the Overall Apprentice of the Year winner: Curtis Nepia, Industrial Mouldings Ltd Congratulations to the year category...
22 August 2008
The Skills4Work Board is pleased to announce that Rosalie Webster has been appointed as CEO of Skills4Work. Rosalie was General Manager, Strategic Opportunities leading up to this appointment and was a member of the Skills4Work Senior Management Team. In this role, she has established the process to be used for long term strategic planning for Skills4Work, working with the Senior Management Team...
23 July 2008
TheTertiary Education Commission (TEC) has recently changed its rules around the Workplace Literacy Fund. Employers are no longer required to make a 15% contribution to Literacy and Numeracy training. What does this mean for your business? It means that your business is no longer required to make a financial contribution to Literacy and Numeracy training - instead your...
2 July 2008
Skills4WorkHead Office has moved to new premises. You can find us at 15a Vestey Drive, Mt Wellington, Auckland – just 2 minutes from the Mt Wellington exit of the Southern Motorway. You can still contact us at our free phone number: 0800 2 SKILL Or, email: info@skills4work.org.nz Fax: 09 588 5101 Payroll Fax: 09 588 5116 The new site allows for Skills4Work growth potential, with a...
2 May 2008
As you may already know a number of roles and responsibilities in Skills4Work are transferring back to Competenz. We are pleased to confirm that we’re on track to complete the transfer of functions and staff by June 1, which is a reflection of the positive way that both parties are working together. The functions, and associated staff, that are transferring to Competenz are core...
11 December 2007
Hey guys, Life down here is cruising along pretty good. It’s a pretty awesome place, when we first came down and did our compulsory Antarctic field training, (AFT its an over night camp that everyone has to do to learn a few skills about how to stay alive if caught outside), it was as cold as it has been here at winfly (September and early October). For quite some time we had minus thirty...
15 November 2007
Congratulations to the 2007 Recipients of the Ivan Fisk Scholarship. They are as follows: Nathan Wooderson - Tokoroa - studying Maintenance & Diagnostics Level 5 at Open Polytechnic Pritesh Patel - Hamilton - studying Maintenance & Diagnostics Level 5 at Open Polytechnic Douglas James - Dunedin - studying Maintenance & Diagnostics Level 5 at Open Polytechnic Nicholas Jenks - Auckland –...
17 September 2007
Top achievers in the engineering, manufacturing and food related sectors have been recognised in the third round of regional Skills in Action Awards evenings to take place around the country. The awards for the lower North Island region follow the earlier Auckland/North and Waikato/Bay of Plenty regional awards, recognising and rewarding those who go the extra mile in industry training including...
17 September 2007
New Lynn resident Nyle Buckley is a young man in a big hurry – he raced through his engineering apprenticeship before he was 21 and is now putting his skills to work building and racing his own drag car and others. Nyle’s Skills4Work sponsored Toyota Corona has come a long way from being the conservative shopping trolley New Zealanders know so well – in fact it could do the length of most...