Victoria’s economy is undergoing the fastest rate of structural adjustment in Australia. To make a successful transition, businesses and their personnel will need to understand the capability requirements of the new landscape. Likewise, they will need to assess their own capabilities, promote their strengths and identify and address the gaps.
Victorian public providers – having endured a period of massive transformational change – have a vital role to play in leading and supporting Victoria’s transformational challenge. VTA members are uniquely positioned to support the new government’s social and economic agenda: providing young people with pathways to meaningful careers in dynamic new industries; up-skilling and cross-skilling existing workers to enable them to transition successfully; and partnering with industries, employers and communities through the transformational process.
The Victorian TAFE Association’s 2015 State Conference, Leading Transformational Change, is a timely consideration of the changing role of the Victorian public VET sector provider, where its have come from and where its headed.
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Conference program
Thursday 16 July
4.30pm Victorian TAFE CEO Council meeting
5.30pm Association Council meeting
6.30pm Pre-dinner drinks
7.00pm Conference Dinner
Dinner Speaker – Kim Williams AM (ex Chief Executive, News Corp Australia and FOXTEL)
Friday 17 July
7.30am Victorian TAFE Board Chairs’ breakfast meeting
8.15am Registration
8.50am Conference Opening
9.05am Welcome Address
Hon. Steve Herbert MP, Minister for Training and Skills
9.30am Keynote Address – Back to the future: Changing colleges, Changing lives
Dr David Collins CBE, Further Education Commissioner, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, UK Government
10.10am Organisational transformation: Chisholm case study Maria Peters, CEO, Chisholm Institute
10.40am Morning tea
11.10am Business transformation – Beyond the Boom
Dr John Edwards, Board Member, Reserve Bank of Australia
11.40am Panel: The student experience
Chair: Denise Stevens, CEO, VET Development Centre
- A case management approach to student success
Tracey Forbes, Director Education, Sunraysia Institute of TAFE
- Transforming the student experience
Professor Jennelle Kyd, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, Swinburne University of Technology
- A student centric approach
Frances Coppolillo, Acting CEO, Melbourne Polytechnic
| 12.20pm | Changeover |
12.25pm Workshops
1. Strategies for Change – How to move the mountain
Dr David Collins CBE, Further Education Commissioner,UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills,
2. A profile of the diversity of VET providers in Australia
Associate Professor Ruth Schubert, Associate Director, LH Martin Institute
3. Lean principles in educational delivery
Ray Griffiths, Principal, Mid-Week Consulting
1.15pm Lunch
2.00pm Taking international TAFE to a whole new level
Hon. Phil Honeywood, CEO, International Education Association of Australia
2.30pm TAFE Queensland: transformational change
Chair: Warren Tapp, Chair, TAFE Chairs’ Australia
3.00pm Panel: Changing provider landscape
Chair: Andrew Williamson, Executive Director, VTA
• Rod Camm, CEO, Australian Council for Private Education and Training
• Martin Riordan, CEO, TAFE Directors Australia
• Jeff Priday, National Projects Manager, Group Training Australia
4.00pm Close