Workplace Development

Late last month Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) released its National Skills Taxonomy Discussion Paper.  In it they note that “a skills taxonomy is the practice of organising skills into distinct categories or clusters based on their definition. Skills taxonomies can vary in their detail, structure, and definitions. The features of a skills taxonomy are […]

The 2024 VET National Teaching & Learning Conference is now only 4 weeks away and tickets are almost sold out! Don’t miss out – Register today. Let’s introduce Keynote Speaker: Shelley Ware, Education Consultant, Author & Teacher. Shelley will be joining us on Day 2 of the conference with her keynote presentation, ‘Culture is Life’.

In the recent past we have highlighted the federal and Victorian budgets as well as the skills plan for Queensland. Now it is South Australia’s turn. Their budget was handed down on 6 June last. The skills budget summary points out that State and Commonwealth Governments’ will make a total investment of $2.3 billion over

A recent TDA TAFE Talks presentation focused on the impact of the last two decades of research of VET policy on TAFE and examined the future of TAFE and the sector in light of the current policy agenda and the 2024/25 Federal budget. It featured presentations by NCVER’s CEO, Simon Walker along with comments from

One of the recently minted Jobs and Skills Councils (JSCs) – Future Skills – has developed a paper entitled ‘Building an AI-Empowered Workforce: Priority Framework.’ There is also a couple of associated resources: the report itself and a webinar. They can be accessed here. How will AI transform VET? | VDC

There are two reports that are worth a look at on this issue. The first is by Dina Bowman and Ursula Harrison and looks at the insights gained through the Brotherhood of St Lawrence’s ‘Insights from the Life Chances Study’ running from 1990 to 2024. It followed 167 infants born in two inner-Melbourne suburbs who

VDC Director Clive Driscoll passed away on Sunday 16 June. His memorial service was held at the Melbourne Cricket Club members dining room on Monday 24 June. Clive was an outstanding contributor and dedicated supporter to the VDC over many years, joining the VDC as an independent director of the audit committee in 2009 and

Skills Ministers met in Sydney on 24 May, and released a communique covering a wide range of topics. These included discussing “Australia’s inaugural National Skills Plan under the National Skills Agreement and the draft Vocational Education and Training (VET) Workforce Blueprint.” What’s in the Skills Ministers’ latest communique? | VDC

With the rise in importance of recognising non-formal and informal learning here in Australia, particularly amongst employers, it’s useful to highlight what the thinking is in Europe. Recently CEDEFOP has published one of its overview papers on this topic. Validating informal and non-formal learning: Some insights from Europe | VDC

Queensland recently released its skills strategy for 2024 to 2028. Entitled Good Jobs, Great Training, it aims to set “the direction for the state’s training system to support the state’s growing and changing workforce over the next 5 years” in its 24 pages. They also published a 12 page summary paper. A new skills strategy