3rd Wave Reform

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3rd Wave Reform
Qualifications and Skills for
Tasmania Tomorrow
NCVER No Frills 08 CONFERENCE
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3rd Wave Reform
2010s - Market
1990s Industry/National
1970s Access for Individuals
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• Demographic Change
• Climate Change
• Skill Shortages
• Disengagement
• Productivity

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Qualifications and Skills for Tasmania Tomorrow
Issues

• Individuals
• Why do so many young people vote with their feet?
  
• Employees
• Why is only 10 of employers training spent in
  TAFE?

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Individuals
Qualifications and Skills for Tasmania Tomorrow
Retention Rates

• Apparent retention 76.1
• Completion Year 12 67
• Continue Study at Uni/TAFE PY12 54

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Individuals

• Australias yr 12 retention is disappointing
• Australias education and training for young
  people is mediocre by international standards
  there will be pressure to change structures.
  There is a need for clearer Government direction,
  for a vision, so that fewer young people continue
  to fall through the cracks.
• Focus on young people fragmentation and
  institutional territorialism becomes absurd and
  unjustified.
• Review of Post-Compulsory Pathways, Victoria 2003

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Individuals

• VET in Schools
• VETiS has increased significantly, however, areas
  closest to traditional academic subjects such as
  IT, management and commerce dominate, regardless
  of student interest or job opportunities. (NCVER)
• Years 11 and 12 students do not have access to
  quality VET. Quality VET requires industry
  standard equipment, teachers with the skills and
  industry experience to deliver courses to
  industry standards, on-the-job learning, and
  access to flexible pathways. (ACCI)

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Individuals

• A Clear Post-School Choice?
• Higher education is the goal of most (90),
  with only one-quarter attracted to TAFE. Many
  school-leavers are poorly informed and
  unrealistic in their aspirations. VET does not
  have a high profile, and TAFE courses do not
  enjoy status. (NCVER)
• Easy to Use Post-School Pathways?
• The linear Year 12 and go to university is
  easy, but for many young people pathways
  involving VET are a lot less straightforward.
  (NCVER)

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International

• Australias goal 90 by 2020
• Singapore 93. Between 1990-2000, residents with
  no qualification reduced from 31 to 19
• Finland 93 with 55 in academic institutions,
  35 in VET, and 3 in school 83 complete
  post-compulsory qualifications.
• Ireland 81 complete second level (VET)
  qualifications and 61 go on to higher education.

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EMPLOYEES

• SME in Manufacturing, Retail, Tourism
• From 1 to 45 Staff in 6 years
• Many business awards
• Staff trained/ing in 43 National Quals
• Training culture 50 staff involved
• Partnered on-site.

The business wouldnt be the success it is
today without training. Igor Van Gerwen
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Employees

• VET Paradox
• Effective Productive and profitable (NCVER)
• Valued Around 74 of employers with a VET
  graduate - training pays for itself through
  increased worker productivity. (NCVER)
• Demand Increase to 18 over the next 10 years.
  (COAG)

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Employees

• Employers spend 2.5b on training
• TAFE only gets 10 / 226m (ABS/NCVER)
• TAFE generates around 5 of its revenue from
  industry (NCVER)

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Employees
How do we attract more enterprises to train, and
to invest in national qualifications for their
staff?
TAFE STUDENTS
TAFE DELIVERY
TAFE REVENUE
We need a fundamental shift in the way we skill
adult workers. They have different needs to
school leavers. (Australian Industry Group)
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Employees
Wave One Access Individuals
Wave Two Industry / National
Wave Three Productivity

• ENTERPRISE
• PRODUCTIVITY
• RE-LEARNING
• CUSTOMISED
• BUSINESS CONDITIONS

• WORKPLACE
• COMPETENCE
• LEARNING
• INDIVIDUALISED
• SCHOOL PLUS

INSTITUTION CURRICULUM TRAINING STRUCTURED
SCHOOL CONDITIONS
The Paradigm Shift Training professionals
working with multiple clients, in multiple
contexts, in multiple learning sites, to
integrate learning and work. (Review NTPs)
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CURRENT
INDIVIDUALS (CAREER)
INDIVIDUALS (UNIVERSITY)
SENIOR COLLEGES
EMPLOYEES (EMPLOYERS)
INDIVIDUALS (CAREER)
TAFE TASMANIA
Pathway Planning Yrs 8-10
NEW
Training Tasmania
Tasmanian Academy
Tasmanian Polytechnic
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International

• Countries with a strong increase in
  participation, qualifications, and productivity
• Genuinely embrace VET as a pathway
• Improve the range of courses in a supportive
  culture
• Develop applied learning - connect to work.

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Individuals

• Merge VET and Education
• Integrate schools and TAFE colleges, with
  employability skills developed through
  relationships with employers. The cognitive and
  intellectual skills of VET will be better
  regarded, and VET learning will be informed by
  rigorous grounding in social sciences and arts.
  (Eric Sidoti)
• Closer links between vocational education and
  higher education are vital in developing learning
  pathways and providing greater access to
  education. Internationally, education systems
  have been reformed and developed to strengthen
  these linkages. (NCVER)

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QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS
PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYEES
Industry Community Leadership
Tasmanian Academy
Training Tasmania
Tasmanian Polytechnic
UNIVERSITY
QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, INVESTMENT, EMPLOYMENT
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Industry Enterprise

• To partner with me, you need to
• Listen carefully to my needs
• Respond quickly to my needs
• Understand my business
• Be flexible
• Deliver quality outcomes
• Understand my need to be profitable
• Be open for business on my terms

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POLYTECHNIC EDUCATION From Year 11 On
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AQF to A/Diploma
Coaching
TCE Courses
Flexible pathways
Applied Blended Learning
Mentoring
Learning community
Industry Standard Teachers/Equipment

• Our adults?
• productive, responsible for themselves, and
  compassionate toward others a society of
  personally responsible, highly skilled and
  altruistic people.
• Don Aitkin

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS
LEARNING SUPPORT
Career Plans
Entry/Bridging programs
Personal Support
Literacy, Numeracy ICT
Structured Work Placements
Qualifications and Skills
Generic Employability Skills
Sense of Community
Team Member
Lifelong Learner
ATTRIBUTE DEVELOPMENT
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Confident
Arts
Mobile
Health Wellbeing
Work Ready
Events
Campus Environment
Communication
THINK
BE
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• TCE
• TE score

Degree

• Diploma of Accounting
• Work experience

Degree

• TCE

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• Understand - I seek a career, not just a job
• Make sure that industry value my qualification
• Status is important to me you need to grow it
• Give me the best teachers
• Be flexible just for me
• I am an individual - treat me as one
• Treat me as your customer

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QUALIFICATIONS SKILLS PATHWAYS 2009

• University Entrance
• Tasmanian Curriculum/IB
• Professional/Commnty Board
• Holistic Education
• Academic Achievement

UNIVERSITY
ACADEMY
SCHOOL
WORKPLACE/ ENTERPRISES
PATHWAY PLANS (Yrs 8-10)

• Applied Learning
• VET Qualifications
• Academic Options
• Uni Articulation
• Training/Curriculum
• Industry Board
• Learning Community
• Supportive Environment

POLYTECHNIC
(Career Changers)

• Employers/Employees
• Productivity
• Workplace Training
• Industry Board
• Flexible Delivery

TRAINING ENTERPRISE
CKNetwork

• Literacy
• Numeracy
• Adult Educn
• Online Access
• Libraries

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SKILLS TASMANIA (Strategy Purchaser)
TASMANIAN QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY (Regulator)
productive employees enterprises
meaningful pathways and qualifications
BOARD
BOARD
BOARD
training enterprise
academy
polytechnic
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My guess is that 99 of those who go to
university and a rather smaller percentage of
those who go to VET institutes do so to acquire
skills that will bring in an income. But thats
not enough. Where does the rest come from? Don
Aitkin
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3rd Wave Reform
NCVER No Frills 08 CONFERENCE