Mark Tyler and Darryl Dymock from Griffith University have been looking at how VET practitioners get recruited and what keeps them in the role.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0presentation<\/a>\u00a0at the recent No frills conference gives us some of the preliminary findings from a report that will hopefully be released later this year.<\/p>\n

The short answer is that getting \u2018em and keeping \u2018em ain\u2019t that easy!<\/h2>\n

Using a small number of interviews (n=27) and an online survey with over 300 responses Mark and Darryl\u2019s\u00a0presentation<\/a>\u00a0at the recent No Frills conference looked at why people go into VET teaching, but also found that there were issues in retaining them once they had joined.<\/p>\n

When new practitioners go into teaching the sorts of things they think about before \u2018signing on\u2019 are getting off the tools, a motivation to give back to industry, the working conditions as well as the life style they want (sometimes associated with their stage of life or career point),\u00a0 remuneration and the requirements to get the Cert IV TAE.<\/p>\n

While they may be positively motivated to go into VET teaching because they have a passion for VET and teaching, there can be barriers. Remuneration is one, with pay levels for some discipline areas being lower than those available in industry. This can be overcome and sometimes providers have discretion to pay over the odds, and others will do it because they have to in order to have staff. Alternatively, they may use other incentives rather than money to try to compensate \u2013 such as working hours.<\/p>\n

The TAE is another stumbling block to recruitment. The presentation noted that a respondent said that \u201cThe TAE does not teach anyone how to be a trainer. It teaches them how to be a pen pusher, a bureaucrat for evidence.\u201d Another noted that compliance requirements were like \u201cclimbing Mount Everest backwards.\u201d Industry currency can be an issue too, with someone pointing out that:<\/p>\n

\u201c[the] notion of being a dual professional or dual practitioner I think in some cases \u2026 the individual who came from industry didn\u2019t realise \u2026 how much work there was around the quality and compliance aspect.\u201d<\/p>\n

In short, it\u2019s hard to find someone \u201cwith necessary industry qualification, experience AND currency.\u201d It\u2019s \u201can ongoing campaign for RTOs.\u201d The continual upgrading of the TAE has also been seen as a burden and, maybe, skill sets could be used more effectively.<\/p>\n

It can be hard to keep staff too. Another quote from Mark and Darryl\u2019s points out that:<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone joins, really enthusiastic, love it to start with and then \u2026 they start to see the cracks \u2026 after about nine months, it becomes a pivotal point where they sort of become very upset, throw the dummy out of the pram. \u2026. They either accept where they are \u2026 or they say, \u201cStuff this,\u201d and they go back to industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

I concur with this. In work I am doing at present, one interviewee describes a similar circumstance with teachers at their institution \u201closing the will to live.\u201d Compliance requirements and levels of administrivia has a lot to do with this.<\/p>\n

So, how do you keep \u2018em? Mark and Darryl found that keeping practitioners means that RTOs need to consciously provide a supportive culture, offer structured mentoring and provide, or otherwise support, professional development.<\/p>\n

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