All but one of the ten new Jobs and Skills Councils (JSCs) are now officially up and running after the announcement of a further five was made recently.
The JSCs are tripartite, industry-led organisations that will address the country’s skills and workforce needs. “JSCs will identify skills and workforce needs for their sectors, map career pathways across education sectors, develop contemporary VET training products, support collaboration between industry and training providers to improve training and assessment practice and act as a source of intelligence on issues affecting their industries.” They will also work closely with Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) and draw on JSA’s workforce analysis and projections to help with their planning.
The latest five JSCs are:
Powering Skills Organisation (covering energy, gas and renewables)
HumanAbility (covering early educators, health and human services)
SkillsEQuipped (covering arts, personal services, retail, tourism and hospitality)
Public Skills Australia (covering public safety and government), and
Future Skills Organisation (covering finance, technology and business)
These new five build on four that were announced earlier. These were:
Manufacturing Industry Skills Alliance (covering manufacturing)
Industry Skills Australia (covering transport and logistics)
Mining and Automotive Skills Alliance (covering mining and automotive)
Skills Insight (covering agribusiness)
The final JSC, BuildSkills Australia, (covering building, construction and property) will be fully operational in the near future.
More details about each can be found through the links above or through this fact sheet. Another fact sheet provides information about their engagement arrangements including the roles and responsibilities of the various stakeholders in the process.