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The Industry View, part 1: skill standards – more than just a name
One of the first priorities for the new National Cabinet Reform Committee on Skills, being the old Skills Ministers forum, is to identify a reform direction for Training Product Design and Development. In the first of four articles, I put forward industry’s view on what that reform could look like, and what path it should not go down.
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Interesting piece. I look forward to the following parts.
We keep hearing how awful Training Packages are but I’m still waiting for details of what will replace them.
The names do not really bother me but it continues to amaze me how often critical aspects of the VET architecture get left out of these discussions. The biggest elephant in the room is the $6bn+ of taxpayers money that is spent in the system.
Anyone can train anyone in anything at a full market price. It only becomes interesting when we start to look at how much ‘rent’ is available via governments to pay for / subsidise training to provide ‘industry’ with the workforce they desire. Or from the other side of the coin (pun intended) how much money is available to assist / encourage potential or upskilling employees to train.
There is certainly a role for taxpayer support in work force development. The real question is how that system of support is designed and implemented to best drive Australian competitiveness on the global stage.