Final Report of the Queensland Skills and Training Taskforce | 6 November 2012 Analysis presented to the Taskforce identified that the current employment model for TAFE teachers reflects the conditions of secondary teachers that existed when TAFE systems separated from secondary and technical school systems in the 1970s and 1980s. Since that time, major shifts have occurred in delivery models (e.g., online and mobile learning) and in the demands of learners and employers (e.g., delivery at a client’s factory floor or corporate office). These have impacted significantly on the expectations of the work undertaken by TAFE workforce. A common finding of all recent reviews of TAFE … [Read more...]
Qld TAFE network and institutional rationalisation
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Final Report of the Queensland Skills and Training Taskforce | 6 November 2012 The Taskforce was attracted to the recommended [by the Queensland department of education and training] rationalised structure of TAFE institutes under a TAFE Queensland parent entity in Figure 18 (page 68). Under this structure there would be an initial five geographically focused institutes (including a single Brisbane Metropolitan institute) plus SkillsTech Australia as the new parent entity’s lead subsidiary on trade skills training. Recommendation 3.12: A rationalised structure of TAFE institutes under a TAFE Queensland parent entity that could have the following characteristics (as presented to … [Read more...]
Role of the Queensland Skills Commission
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Final Report of the Queensland Skills and Training Taskforce | 6 November 2012 The proposed functions of the Skills Commission would be to: Provide skills and workforce policy advice and recommendations to the Minister and Government, including strategic skills policy leadership and engagement at state and national levels. Re-evaluate and improve the information brokerage arrangements of the Industry Skills Bodies Network and ensure their activities align with an industry driven training market. Gather, elicit and synthesise industry intelligence through multiple sources such as expert research, local communities and industry skills bodies. Map the current and … [Read more...]
TAFE Queensland “parent entity” role
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Final Report of the Queensland Skills and Training Taskforce | 6 November 2012 The TAFE Queensland parent entity would provide the following for the network of subsidiaries it leads: streamlined interface with the Minister (owner) for the purposes of managing the network of public providers from a state-wide perspective eliminate the need for a departmental function that has responsibility for collating a statewide view of the public provider in terms of performance and outcomes a lean administrative centre which incrementally transitions-in historically centralised departmental functions and support mechanisms relevant to TAFE Queensland an ability for state-wide and … [Read more...]
