People across NSW are being encouraged to explore and celebrate everything vocational education and training offers during National Skills Week, which starts on Monday, 21 August.
The Skills Week theme, "What are you looking for?", highlights the exciting education and career opportunities offered through Vocational Education and Training (VET) pathways.
NSW Department of Education Secretary Murat Dizdar said Skills Week aimed to overturn out-of-date perceptions about the opportunities vocational education offered.
"Our job market is changing rapidly, and the vocational education sector has a key role to play in future-proofing existing and emerging industries," Mr Dizdar said.
"Vocational education will continue to support the traditional trades but is also crucial for new and emerging industries. For example, our clean energy future will provide terrific jobs based on many of our current trades."
Mr Dizdar said the line between a university, or a vocational education and training pathway was increasingly being blurred.
"Vocational education and training sits alongside university as an equal partner in the tertiary education sector and the future lies in increased collaboration between these two," he said.
