VDC NEWS

7 December 2022

EDITION 23 - 2022

Surfing Legend Layne Beachely AO: VDC Teaching & Learning Conference 2022

Introducing Keynote Speaker: Layne Beachely AO VDC is honoured to have secured Keynote Speaker Layne Beachley for the VDC Teaching & Learning Conference (online 17 & 18 Nov 2022). Layne is regarded as the most successful female surfer in history. Her dedication to success sees her as the only surfer, male or female, to claim six consecutive world titles between 1998 and 2003. Layne went on to win a 7th world title in 2006 before retiring from the World Tour in 2008. Her genuine leadership style blazed a trail for equality at the beach, on the waves and in the boardroom. She shares her stories and powerful authentic voice in the recently released documentary Girls Can’t Surf, highlighting the chauvinistic and sexist culture of the surfing world in the 80’s and 90’s and how she was able to overcome these challenges to influence and celebrate pay equity in 2018. Find full program details and registration links here.

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Taking Care of Business – skills and workforce need

The Australian industry Group’s (AiG) Centre for Education and Training has just released its 2022 Skills Survey. It shows that VET-qualified people and programs are right at the heart of addressing skill shortages and needs.

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Improving support for apprenticeship services

Australia’s Governments are committed to improve the apprenticeship system and drive-up completions. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) has released a discussion paper which explores the existing services and supports and seeks views on opportunities address three key issues facing the Apprenticeships System: falling completion rates, a lack of diversity in the make-up of apprentices and growing areas of skills shortage.

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Inclusion, Localism, Horizontals and Meaning in work and life.

VDC News had the privilege of attending the Community Colleges Australia conference in Sydney a little while ago. One of the keynote speakers was the CEO of the Victorian Skills Authority (VSA), Craig Robertson. This is what Craig had to say.

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Messages from the top – Skills Ministers’ meeting

Australia’s Skills Ministers met on November 18. The communique from that meeting highlights their priorities for VET reform. These include improving VET quality and relevance, strengthening tripartite and cross portfolio engagement, and delivering more meaningful evidence to inform skills policy. Jobs and Skills Australia has been established to help with this process.

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Government VET funding up in 2021

In early November NCVER released Governments’ VET expenditure figures for 2021. Australian and state and territory governments spent $10.4 billion on vocational education and training (VET) during the year which showed a $2.9 billion increase and up 38.6% from 2020. Of these funds, $5.4 billion was for direct VET delivery and $3.7 billion provided employer assistance to engage in VET – up over 150% from 2020 levels.

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A quick update on the TAE training package

Many of you may have received this email, but in case you haven’t and are interested, PwC’s Skills for Australia advise that:

“the Case for Endorsement and accompanying documents for Version 5 of the TAE training package were approved by the Australian Industry Skills Committee (AISC) on 8 November 2022 and endorsed by Skills Ministers on 18 November 2022.”

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