Swinburne University of Technology

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Swinburne University of Technology
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• No Shortage of Skills
• Sheila Fitzgerald

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Victorian Skills strategy designed to complement
the national reform agenda Skilling Australia
New Directions for Vocational Education and
Training
http//www.otte.vic.gov.au/pdf/MaintainingAdvantag
eSkilledVictorians.pdf
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Key actions are to

• Provide greater opportunities for students to
  participate in vocational education and training
  while at school Starting earlier
• Encourage people to aim higher and extend their
  skills throughout their working life Learning
  longer
• Open up employment opportunities that demand
  higher-level skills Getting smarter
• Provide better information about career pathways
  and training opportunities and make the training
  system more responsive Making it easier.

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Key challenges identified

• Ageing population
• Increased global competition and growth in
  economies like China and India
• Skills shortage
• Maintaining increasing the skills of existing
  workers and mature-age workers
• Falling workforce participation rates
• Unemployment and under-employment

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Addressing Victorias skill challenges

• Population ageing

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Addressing Victorias skill challenges

• Unemployment and under-employment
• 20 of people not in the labour force want work
• 5 of labour force unemployed
• 6 of part time workers want more hours
• Disadvantage
• Early school levers at a greater risk of
  unemployment, under-employment, insecure
  employment, incarceration, ill-health and social
  exclusion
• Similar risks for Indigenous Australians, people
  from diverse cultural and language backgrounds,
  people with disabilities and parents returning to
  work

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3 Ps population, participation, productivity
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Current areas of skills in demand

• Issues of falling enrolments in training for many
  of these occupational areas
• Why?????

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Addressing Victorias skill challenges

• Employment growth in higher skilled occupations

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Employment growth
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Growth in occupations
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Addressing Victorias skill challenges

• Changing skill content of jobs
• Increasing through social, technological and
  regulatory factors
• Overseas competition
• Risks for low skilled workers
• Need for more value-added activity, especially in
• Biotechnology
• Advanced manufacturing
• Design
• Information and communications technologies
• Environmental technologies

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Printing industry example
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Apprenticeships and traineeships
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Apprenticeships and traineeships

• Nationally 49 of yr 11/12 take-up VET in Schools
• In Victoria it is 32.3 and also shows
  significant regional variations

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Swinburnes response

• More pre-apprenticeship programmes
• Greater emphasis on apprenticeships and
  traineeships
• Higher levels of workplace delivery and
  assessment
• Higher level qualifications
• Dual qualifications trade and business
• Improved pathways
• Accelerated delivery

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Scale of complexity for skill categories

• Swinburnes skills passport our emphasis on
  generic skills
• Work- integrated learning
• Problem based learning

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