Completed actions from the 2022 Skills Plan
Start the VET journey at school
- Provide up-to-date information to students about occupations in demand
- Work with industry to identify future job opportunities
- Use the VSA’s employment forecasts to inform VET in school offerings
Enable learners and workers to make informed skilling and career choices
- Work with Skills and Jobs Centres to support local learners and workers
- Provide advice through the Victorian Skills Gateway to highlight training pathways into local occupations in demand
- Develop a tool to show core and transferable skills for future jobs
Expand opportunities and approaches for students to put theory into practice during their course
- Facilitate industry roundtables to support work placements
- Identify placement shortfalls in selected courses and occupations
- Review work placements and provide alternatives where applicable
Bridge the gender gap
- Conduct a Gender Impact Assessment of the Skills Plan
- Monitor the education and employment outcomes of women who enrol in training
- Identify barriers to participation for women from diverse backgrounds
- Partner with agencies to identify gender-based barriers to training and employment
- Work with industry to reduce gender segregation across industries
Build skills to support Victoria’s clean economy intentions
- Develop Victoria-wide workforce tools to inform training delivery
- Embed clean economy workforce priorities in the Skills Plans
- Develop programs for new clean economy skills with the Office of TAFE Coordination and Delivery
Expand re-skilling and up-skilling opportunities through skill sets
- Support skilling in priority areas using the Training Needs List
- Facilitate recognition of micro-credentials for new areas of learning
- Use the Workforce Skill Set Fund to develop industry relevant skills
- Identify links between skill sets, employment and full qualifications
Completed actions from the 2023 Skills Plan
Meet the motivations and aspirations of learners through an inclusive VET system
- Provide a stronger student voice in education and training reforms
- Enhance connections of school-aged learners with employers and industry
- Collaborate with NCVER to better understand learners’ vocational pathways
Prepare VET for the jobs of tomorrow
- The VSA continues to work on future skills needs of Victoria
Actions underway
(discussed in the Skills Plan Implementation Update)
- Create innovative solutions to support future skills development
- Align qualifications to new needs
- Develop a VET workforce strategy for Victoria
- Drive for higher skills and progression through education and training
- Pursue VET qualification redesign
- Empower self-determination for First Nations peoples
- Improve opportunities for Victorians with disability
- Deliver the skills Victoria needs through an integrated postsecondary school system
- Embed applied research in the vocational education model
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