Employability Skills replacing Key Competency Information
In May 2005, the National Quality Council endorsed the approach to explicitly embed Employability Skills into Training Packages. Since then, the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), formerly DEST, has been working with Industry Skills Councils (ISC) to ensure that Employability Skills are integrated into all nationally endorsed Training Packages.
Employability Skills are considered to be explicitly embedded when units of competency are written in a manner which makes the relationships between Employability Skills and the other performance requirements clear and readily identifiable.
Following the endorsement of Employability Skills, Industry Skills Councils (ISC) began working with training package developers to map and embed the eight Employability Skills. In order to achieve this, every ISC used the Employability Skills Framework from the Employability Skills for the Future report as a starting point. In many cases, the Framework was further modified to capture industry specific requirements. These requirements were then mapped to existing Training Packages and embedded and strengthened in units of competency.
Employability Skills - From Framework to Practice, DEST, 2006.
