Publications
Bradley Review of Higher Education (May 2009)
Click here for the Australian Government's Review of Higher Education Report.
Skills Reform Policy Paper (September 2008)
Click here for the Victorian Government's statement, Securing Jobs for Your Future - Skills for Victoria
Victorian TAFE Providers - ‘Extending the messages’: A management response to the most common mental health problems in the workplace (February 2008) (144 KB)
Report describing the responses of TAFE Executive Teams to a sector wide training program delivered by beyondblue: the national depression initiative for the Victorian TAFE Association. The Executive Teams were asked:
1. How can you best promote these messages in your organisation?
2. What challenges or issues are ‘barriers to action?’
3. What are the ‘first steps’ of your ‘management response?’
Taking the Lead on Skills Recognition Final Report (January 2008) (254 KB)
The Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development, on behalf of the Victorian Learning and Employment Skills Commission, contracted with the VTA to provide services to enhance the strategic knowledge, skills and capabilities of TAFE senior management to lead effective change strategies that increase and improve RPL in TAFE Instiutues/Universities with TAFE Divisions. The VTA produced a report on the outcomes of this project.
Response to the DIIRD Better Regulation Project (September 2007) (109 KB)
VTA's response to the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development's Better Regulation Project to identify areas of regulation that are considered unnecessarily burdensome for the TAFE sector.
TAFE Directions: Balancing Tertiary Education – The TDA 2007 Election Manifesto (September 2007)
TAFE Directors Australia released Balancing Tertiary Education: an Election Manifesto from TAFE Institutes Detailing a Response Framework to the Skills Crisis for the incoming Australian Government at the recent TDA 2007 National Convention staged in
"Qualifications and the Future Labour Market in Australia", CEET, Monash University (November 2006) (368 KB)
This report has been prepared for the National Training Reform Taskforce to report on the future supply of, and requirements for, vocational education and training (VET) qualifications in Australia. It is intended to inform the next stages of reform of the sector to be considered by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG).
Paper from Dahle Suggett, Deputy Secretary, Office of Learning and Teaching, "Post-compulsory provision for young people: new arrangements, new options" (24 August 2006) (150 KB)
This discussion paper was presented to the VTA Association Council, August 24, 2006. The discussion summarises the drivers of policy in this area, highlights the key data around the importance of youth transitions, suggests a framework for understanding the strategies in place in Victoria and internationally and proposes possible scenarios for future provision in post compulsory education and training. The suggestion is there are important choices to be made by policy makers and practitioners in how we proceed to meet the education and training goals for young people.
Report of the AiGroup: World Class Skills for World Class Industries - employers' perspectives on skilling in Victoria (July 2006)
Click here to go Australian Industry Group (AiGroup) reports page to access their July 2006 report World Class Skills for World Class Industries - employers' perspectives on skilling in Victoria.
Auditor-General's Report on VET: Meeting the skill needs of the manufacturing industry (July 2006)
The audit examined how well Victoria's publicly-funded vocational education and training is meeting the skill needs of the manufacturing industry. Three sectors in the manufacturing industry – vehicle manufacture, engineering and pharmaceutical manufacture were selected for particular attention. Specifically, the audit examined to what extent does Victoria's purchase of publicly-funded VET meet the skill needs of the manufacturing industry, and do Victorian TAFE institutions have sufficient capacity and capability to provide for the skill needs of the manufacturing industry?
Click here to go Victorian Auditor-General's Office webpage.
Maintaining the Advantage: Skilled Victorians (April 2006)
The Victorian Government announced in March 2006 a $241.47 million investment in Victoria's vocational education and training sector. The investment, outlined in 'Maintaining the Advantage: Skilled Victorians' articulates the Government's key vocational education and training priorities to increase the skills of existing workers and adult learners, as well as apprentices and trainees.
Click here download the pdf.
"TAFE Institutes and the Requirements of the Higher Education Support Act - Issues and Options for Consideration" (Peter Noonan, December 2005) (104 KB)
The VTA has undertaken a feasibility study on the issues and options to enable Victorian TAFE Institutes to meet the Federal Government's requirements for Fees Help under the Higher Education Support Act (HESA) and in anticipation of further developments in the national and international full fee student markets.
Peter Noonan was engaged by the VTA to undertake this Project and produced the attached "Issues and Options for Consideration" Paper.
NCVER - A Well-Skilled Future: Tailoring VET to the Emerging Labour Market - Research Overviews
A well-skilled future: Tailoring vocational education and training to the emerging labour market' has been undertaken by a consortium of researchers from the National Institute of Labour Studies at Flinders University and the Centre for Post-compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of Melbourne. The 13 survey reports overview changing work skill needs and work organisation arrangements, and their implications for the vocational education and training sector.
Page updated 9 July 2009