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Catherine Lye: Advancing Manufacturing Aotearoa on the new work experience programme for students · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So hands on experience qualifications and they get a paycheck.
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  Speaker 1: These are all on off as to high school students
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  Speaker 1: under a new program directly connecting them with the manufacturing industry.
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  Speaker 1: It's part of the effort to reduce our skills shortage.
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  Speaker 1: And the pilot has launched in the White Cattle and
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  Speaker 1: Advancing manufacturer. Our tail Row CEO Catherine lies with me
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  Speaker 1: now Hello Catherine.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Hello Andrew. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm very good. How does this work?
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  Speaker 2: So we yeah, So we launched the program yesterday. So
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  Speaker 2: we welcomed twenty students into the thirty week program. And
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  Speaker 2: so it really started. I'll sort of take a step back.
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  Speaker 2: It really started as out as a seed of an
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  Speaker 2: idea a couple of years ago between a group of
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  Speaker 2: world class whitecaddow manufacturers to address their biggest challenge, as
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  Speaker 2: you say, the attraction and development of the workforce. So
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  Speaker 2: we quickly assembled a team to design and develop and
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  Speaker 2: endorse the New Zealand Certificate of Manufacturing. So we brought
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  Speaker 2: together Hunger A Thou, the Workforce Development Council for Manufacturing
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  Speaker 2: and Engineering, because we need them to endorse the program
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  Speaker 2: to ensure we get the NZQA approval. We brought together
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  Speaker 2: wind Tech who would actually help assist industry with the
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  Speaker 2: design and development of the program. We brought together WEKKA,
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  Speaker 2: who are the Wykatto Engineering Careers Association, who would promote
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  Speaker 2: and market this opportunity to twenty three high schools throughout
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  Speaker 2: the why Cato region, and of course ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: So what do they learn? What do they learn, and
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  Speaker 1: what do they earn? And how do they do this?
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  Speaker 1: And who's payment?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Yeah, So this is a thirty week program. They
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  Speaker 2: will spend two days in the classroom at wind Tech
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  Speaker 2: and then three days per week for ten weeks with
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  Speaker 2: one manufacturer. Then for the next ten week block they
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  Speaker 2: will move to a other manufacturer for experience, and then
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  Speaker 2: for the final ten week block they'll have experience with
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  Speaker 2: another So they'll each student will gain experience and exposure
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  Speaker 2: into three different manufacturing businesses and they will earn that
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  Speaker 2: the businesses have all agreed to commit to pay these
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  Speaker 2: students that are our full time students with wind Tech
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  Speaker 2: the minimum wage plus one dollar. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: That is so good, Catherine, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: keeping our kids here. That's Catherine Lai from Advancing Manufacturing
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