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 … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]