Chamber of Minerals and Energy

Education and Training

The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia (CME) are focussed on ensuring a high quality and appropriately skilled workforce for the resources sector. Through advocacy, research, strategic alliances and partnerships the CME seeks to provide for the needs of the resources industry.

Minerals Training Council (MTC)
The Minerals Training Committee is an advisory group made up of member company representatives that was created to ensure the resources short term and long term training needs at an operational level are met.

Australian Minerals Industry National Skills Shortage Strategy

The National Skills Shortage Strategy (NSSS) was announced by the Prime Minister in 2004 as a joint industry and government initiative to look into skill shortage issues relating to the trade and semi professional fields. The project is funded by the Department of Education Science and Training.

The first phase of the project was the contracting of research to the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) and the National Institute of Labour Studies (NILS) who undertook a study into employment, job vacancies, attraction and retention, and education and training in the minerals sector.

Click here for a copy of the Executive Summary of Prospecting for Skills: The Current and Future Skill Needs in the Minerals Sector

Click here for a copy of the full report, Prospecting for Skills: The Current and Future Skill Needs in the Minerals Sector

As result of recommendations from the above research, further research was undertaken to investigate the barriers to apprenticeships, skilled migration and labour force outlook to 2015.

Click here for a copy of Addressing Barriers to Employment and Training of Traditional Trade Apprentice in the Australian Mining Industry

Click here for a copy of Brain Drain, Brain Gain: Accessing the Required Skills

Click here for a copy of The Labour Force Outlook in the Minerals Resources Sector: 2005 to 2015 (to be released shortly)

Reframing the Future
In February the Australian Government announced its Reframing the Future projects, a Department of Education, Science and Technology (DEST) initiative, which is directly related to the training and TAFE area.

CME in conjunction with member companies, WA TAFE Colleges and universities have been successful in receiving funding for Goal Area 4 – Effective Networking. Within this initiative the CME seeks to facilitate the sharing of learning experiences between TAFE lecturers, university lecturers and industry professionals. This will provide up to date, appropriate context for their teaching and learning processes through raising their understanding and knowledge base of the resources sector.