Download - VET Products for the 21 st Century
VET Products for the 21st Century
Luke BehnckeProject Manager
National Quality Council
Policy Issues
COAG reform agenda designed to:
Increase demand-driven training
Improve efficiency, reduce duplication
Create greater workforce mobility
Improve quality of training outcomes
Enhance social inclusion
Increase pathways to and from VET
Reform Agenda
• COAG policy direction: … “reform .. to meet a more client driven system”
• Competency standards: still a great concept, identifying outcomes not the way to achieve them.
• 10+ years on: TPs have adapted but become too dense, complex, inconsistent
• Change is needed: stretch the concept to keep pace with changing client needs and expectations
Reform to VET products
Review:
COAG/NQC report - VET products for the 21st Century endorsed by Ministers June 2009
Key elements of reform:
Flexibility
Streamlining
Competency and knowledge
Foundation skills
Roles and responsibilities
Managing and implementing reform Ministerial Council overseeing COAG agenda
National Quality Council
TVET/DEEWR – NQC project management
ISCs – Training Packages
STAs – systems and services
RTOs – training that responds to client needs
Other reforms
VET products reform in the context of other reforms
AQTF and AQF New requirements – new RTOs, financial
viability, capability in assessment
Comprehensive review of AQF
Australian Skills Quality Authority
National Standards Council
Competency and knowledge
Competency and knowledge
New requirements:• Explicit, allowing for knowledge and preparatory units in
all TPs• Consistency across Training Packages
Updated definition:• “… consistent application of knowledge and skill to
the standard of performance required in the workplace.”
• Competency and knowledge are inseparable• Knowledge is a key element of competency
Flexibility
Flexibility
It’s all about choice and options: New packaging rules to allow widest possible
choice of elective units
New measure for volume and source of electives
Volume – 1/3 or more electives, built into TP design
Source – up to 1/6 of total units can come from elsewhere, choice for RTO and/or client
Completed by June 2011, some exemptions
Flexibility - examples
Example 1
24 Units
16 Units
8 Units
4 Units 4 IMPORTABLE ELECTIVESOne sixth of total units
Example 2
4 IMPORTABLE ELECTIVESOne sixth of total units
8 ELECTIVESOne third or more of total units
16 ELECTIVESOne third or more of total units
16 CORE 8 CORE
Flexibility - analysis
Qualifications analyzed: 1519 total qualifications
Exempt and excepted qualifications 372 (25% of total) qualifications nominated as
exempt 31 (3% of total) qualifications are exceptions
Compliance: Of remaining 1116 qualifications, 949 now comply
- 85% of all eligible qualifications (at 31 Dec 2010)
Streamlining
Streamlining
It’s all about making TPs simpler, shorter:
Getting back to essentials
Putting the emphasis on the end user
Creating clear categories of information
Separating two elements of the package:
Performance standards and requirements – endorsed by NQC
Supporting information – guidance for implementation
Streamlining Training Packages
Units of Competency RTO Implementation Guidance
Assessment Requirements Learning Strategies
Qualifications Knowledge Guidance
Credit Arrangements Assessment Strategies
Endorsed by NQC Quality assuredcompanion volume
Streamlining
Performance Standards and Requirements
New TP design model
TRAINING PACKAGES(Endorsed by NQC) CONTENT / TEMPLATE
Credit ArrangementsProvide articulation and credit
Articulation for Diploma and Advanced DiplomaAgreed credit arrangements
Qualifications Detail the qualifications contained in the training package
Qualification codeQualification titleQualification description
Packaging rules: core and elective unitsLink to qualification mapping information
Units of CompetencyProvide specifications of applied performance standards
Assessment RequirementsDescribe the assessment requirements at the unit of competency
Unit codeUnit titleApplicationPrerequisite units
Assessment evidence:•Performance•Knowledge
Competency fieldUnit sectorElementsPerformance criteria
Foundation skillsRange of conditionsLink to unit mapping information
Assessment contextAssessment condition
Companion Volume
New design model - Companion Volume
COMPANION VOLUME(QAd) CONTENT / TEMPLATE
Overview informationImplementation informationLinks
RTO Implementation GuidePurpose: Provide information to assist RTOs in interpreting and understanding the endorsed components of the training package.
Learning Strategies GuidePurpose: Introduce and describe diversity of learners and learning strategies.
Learning approachesLearning environmentContextualisation
Learner outcomesLinks
Knowledge GuidePurpose: Identify contextual information including knowledge requirements and resources.
Broad discipline informationIndustry-specific information
Applied knowledgeLinks
Assessment Strategies GuidePurpose: provide guidance on implementation of assessment requirements in the endorsed components of a training package.
Assessment and training packageAssessment methodsAssessment conditions
Evidence adviceAssessment validationLinks
Foundation skills
Foundation skills
Benefits of reform National standards for foundation skills training
ACSF, LLN & employability skills
Foundation Skills Training Package
Many product options to meet diverse needs - MIXING and MATCHING, INTENSIVE or INTEGRATED
Units can be used by ISCs or RTOS across Training Packages
Embedded within units and qualifications
Relative balance between vocational and foundation to suit need
BUT – products can only fix so much…
Vocational Units of
Competency
Vocational Units of
Competency
Foundation Skills Units of Competency
Foundation Skills Units of Competency
Foundation skills
Vocational Qualifications Foundation Skills Qualifications
Foundation Skills Units of Competency
Vocational Units of
Competency
MIXING and MATCHING
Embedded Foundation Skills
Impact and benefits – RTOs
Core business: You know your clients
You want flexibility, room to innovate, more scope to tailor services to match client needs
New products: Simpler TPs, easier to understand
More support for training and assessment strategies
More flexible packaging
More straightforward compliance standards, clearer audit process
Next Steps Discussion
Timeline
What’s happening in 2011?
Where are we up to?