Workplace Development

Due to a high number of nominations still in progress and noting that the recent lockdown in Victoria may have impacted your work, the 2021 Victorian Training Awards nominations period has been extended for a further two weeks and will close on Friday 18 June 2021. If you have started an application, but weren’t able […]

The South Australian Government has conducted a review of its Skills and Development Regulations, which is expected to come into operation on 1 July 2021. It’s looking “to develop a more responsive, flexible training system that is easy to navigate and geared towards workforce needs.” What triggered this? In short, it was the key recommendations

The Victorian budget for 2021-22 is out. One focus is around funds to support the establishment of the Victorian Skills Authority proposed in the Macklin Review. Access in the papers This page on the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance site provides access to the Treasurer’s speech, an overview of the budget, the strategy and

The Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE) has just released the first feedback from its consultation process on skills reform. This first set of information is focused on better industry engagement with VET and qualifications reform. Better industry engagement The first of their ‘What we have heard” articles “highlights stakeholder responses to their discussion

This latest report and suite of other products from NCVER focuses on international approaches used to streamline the development process for vocational qualifications. So, what can we learn from overseas? The report suggests that we don’t do that badly, but there are lessons for us that will help do things better! A bit of context

Family Violence TAFE Operational Group Chisholm has been undertaking pilots in family violence response and primary prevention. As part of the pilots Chisholm is establishing a Family Violence TAFE Operational Group. This group’s purpose is to share information and experience on building the capability of TAFEs to prevent and respond to family violence across the

The Tasmanian election is done and dusted, so what will this mean for TAFE and the broader VET sector there? That’s not clear yet, but the Premier’s Economic and Social Recovery Advisory Council (PERSAC) has made a number of wide-ranging recommendations, summarised here and in a report. What are they aiming to do? PERSAC was

This recent paper from ASQA, released in April, sets out the Regulatory Risk Framework it is using to manage both sector and provider risk. As ASQA points out: “effective, integrated management of risk is critical to the successful delivery [of its] strategic objective to deliver quality training outcomes for students.” A commitment to effective risk

This big-spending budget has some news for the VET and higher education sectors. For Higher Ed there is a focus on skilling and training given our closed borders, minimal skilled migration and some labour shortages. This means training those that are already here in Australia and getting people back to work. What’s in it for

As Semester 1 of the VDC Professional Learning Program draws to a close, don’t miss out on these upcoming assessment essentials in June. These webinars will delve into RPL, candidate experience and authentic assessment, and also assessment methods for AQF level requirements. There are so many ways to conduct assessments, but is every method meeting