November 2008
National Training Information Service (NTIS)
The NTIS has been managed by Commander Communications on behalf of DEEWR for over two years. On 8 August this year, Commander announced that they had been placed into receivership by their creditors. The receivers, McGrath Nicol, then offered Commander’s business units for sale.
Commander continued to support NTIS throughout the period of the receivership.
Commander’s managed services business unit (responsible for NTIS) has now been purchased by CSG Pty Ltd, an IT company based in the Northern Territory. DEEWR are in the process of concluding a contract with CSG for the ongoing management of the NTIS. This contract will run until NTIS is replaced by training.gov.au in May 2009
Training.gov.au Project Update
Stakeholder Consultation
Stakeholder consultation has been a main focus for the project team this past month with trips to WA, SA, NSW, QLD, VIC and TAS completed, the ACT currently taking place and NT in the pipeline.
Members of the project team have been presenting to a variety of stakeholders including State and Territory Governments, Industry Skills Councils and Registered Training Organisations.
These meetings provide stakeholders with an update on the progress of the project, what to expect over the coming months and how to prepare, as well as providing a forum to have their questions answered.
The project team is committed to keeping users informed about the project and has employed a new team member to be the fulltime Stakeholder Engagement Manager for the Training.gov.au project.
System Integration
System Integration (Web Service) specifications have been distributed to stakeholders, including RCABs, STAs and RTOs for comment. The Department is working with these bodies to finalise these specifications, ensuring that they:
- Comply with nationally agreed data standards;
- Are compatible with data provider/consumer systems;
- Minimise the development effort data providers/consumers will be required to invest to support the new interface; and
- Align with data provider/consumer business processes.
Following finalisation of these Web Service specifications, the Department will work with affected stakeholders to determine if there are any obstacles to them making the necessary changes to their systems within the required timeframes.
Data Migration
After a few delays, a data migration company have now been engaged to migrate all the regulatory information and national training data from both NTIS and Training.com.au to the new system in time for the launch in May next year.
There are over 330,000 pages of training package data alone that needs to be migrated and the project team will be working closely with the supplier to ensure the work is aligned with the transition plan endorsed by the NPMC and NQC.
Contextual Content
A final round of photography was shot in Sydney on the 17th of November which brings the total of number of career paths photographed to 50. The final shoots included Qantas Engineers, Virgin Blue flight attendants, Graphic Design Studios, an Events Management Company, Toni and Guy Hairdressing, Sydney Buses and NSW Maritime.
The content team will now concentrate on writing up the real life stories of the people photographed and adding an inspirational element to be featured on yourtraining.gov.au and trainyourpeople.gov.au
Project Blog
For further information on the development of Training.gov.au, please visit our project blog where we regularly post new project information and progress updates. http://blog.training.gov.au.
Training.com.au
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NTIS Gazette:
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Contact Us
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Training.com.au feedback@training.com.au.