A highly-skilled Victorian VET workforce is essential to help learners achieve their career goals, provide industry with the skilled workers they need, and support the delivery of key government priorities.
The VSA is progressing the Victorian VET Workforce Strategy, which will deliver evidence-based recommendations to strengthen the VET workforce. The strategy will build capability and promote excellence, and is expected to be complete by 2025.
This strategy will position Victoria to align with national VET workforce reforms underway and leverage opportunities arising from the National Skills Agreement. The VSA is also supporting the Commonwealth Government to develop a national VET Workforce Blueprint.22
To support the strategy, the VSA launched a VET Workforce Lab in November 2023. Through its ongoing work (including interviews and workshops), the VSA is hearing directly from key stakeholders about the range of interconnected issues including attraction and retention, compliance, professional development and the challenges associated with meeting the needs of a diverse learner cohort.
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