RMT Blog

ABC Radio - River Murray Training - School-based Apprenticeships

barbmc — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:51:40 +0000

Better times see growing interest in farming careers
ABC Online
ABC national radio this week interviewed Barb McPherson from River Murray Training on Ag training aand the benefits of school-based traineeships. One of River Murray Training’s trainees was also interviewed. River Murray Training is an RTO, providing nationally recognised training in Ag, at Certificate III, IV, Diploma and Advanced Diploma.

Diversification - Adv Dip of Ag

barbmc — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:46:38 +0000

Click her for FLYER Diversification - Advanced Diploma of AgricultureOur application on behalf of 14 R’Land Primary Producers, for Existing Worker Productivity Places Program (EW PPP) funding was successful. An information session was held on Oct 13, to explain the program and how it would be run. Robyn Cain Director of the Task Force spoke about the Riverland Futures Sustainabilty Funding grant criteria. The program will involve a group get together on the 2nd Thurs of every month, and a couple of guest speaker presentations around THurs Lunchtimes the following weeks.As a couple of early registrations of interest have decided to not go ahead, there are a limited number of vacancies. It this program is of interest do call the RMT office or view the attached flyer for more information (more…)

Trade School feature

barbmc — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:55:39 +0000

The Riverland Weekly last week had a feature on Trade Schools, and on RMT.Australian School Based Apprenticeships (ASBAs) offer a great alternative career pathway for students. We have students currently undertaking ASBAs in Agriculture, Irrigation, Production Horticulture, Business Administration, Business Administration (Education). Many will continue in their work role full time when they leave school. Others are using their ASBA as a means of gaining skills and to show their employability to get into TRADE apprenticeships such as automotive, welding and plumbing. Some parents who have a business or farming property are employing their child or a relative thus giving them a head start in employment. Some students are using the School based apprenticeship (sometimes called a traineeship) to gain practical experience and using it as a pathway into a university or tertiary program for example a Certificate III in Agriculture before applying to do an Agriculture Science undergraduate program.To find out more about Trade Schools and ASBAs contact Riverland Trade School 85952676

RMT Showcasing at the E-Dayz Conference

gilliani — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:59:21 +0000

RMT is one of 14 projects from a range of industries and Registered Training Organisations who won funding in 2009 to develop innovative products, practices and processes for embedding e-learning into their organisations. These projects will be showcased at the E-Dayz Conference on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th November. They are funded by the national training system’s e-learning strategy, the Australian Flexible Learning Framework. To keep up to date with our project check out the following link: http://trainingo2.net/eli/projectprofile22009.php?pid=2218

RMT presents at the Building VET Business Capability Forum

barbmc — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:17:34 +0000

Congratulations Taylors Wines

barbmc — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:44:48 +0000

Taylors Wines was recently named the best winery at America’s largest and most prestigious San Franciso International Wine Show. This is the second time in three years. River Murray Training (RMT) is proud to be associated with Taylors Wines, providing partnered training services for over 10 years. That Taylors Wines can so consistently win international and Australian wine awards is testament to the quality systems they have in place. Here is a company that has a strong training culture and embedded the nationally accredited wine industry competency framework into their workforce development strategy. Their investment in employee training and development certainly pays off. Well done to all Taylors Wines employee. You can be very proud of your award-winning achievements.

Irrigation - online

barbmc — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:06:58 +0000

Please share your experience in doing irrigation studies online with RMT.

RMT, TAA - Online

barbmc — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:59:24 +0000

Please share your thoughts on doing TAA online with RMT.

Resources

gilliani — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:21:31 +0000

Have checked out a couple of resources that have already been developed in the hope that we can use them for our delivery.

The Dryland Horticulture toolbox has material for the unit RTC2705A Work Effectively in Industry but will not be suitable for our purposes. It is more for retail and is specific for indigenous trainees.

The NSW Farmers Association Chemical Card Training covers the learning for two units:
RTE3704A Prepare and apply chemicals
RTE3705A Transport, handle and store chemicals

It is an e-learning demonstration developed for the Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Is quite comprehensive but needs to be customised for our use…is a bit too ’sheep’ orientated and also laws covered are for NSW. Needs additional instructional design.

Will check out a few more toolboxes. Need to put together some activities for an induction unit.

Gill

Social & Collaborative Learning Tools

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:11:50 +0000

I have been looking into different social and collaborative networking tools that we can incorporate into out project. These are some of the tools that we have looked at so far:

While we have looked at all these tools we feel that Moodle offers many of them in one location. I would like to invite comments from people who have used any of these tools in comparison with Moodle.

Dearne