The eleven Industry Skills Councils have prepared this joint response to the Australian Government's 'Skilling Australia for the Future' Discussion paper.

SKILLING AUSTRALIA DISCUSSION PAPER

RESPONSES

ISCs RESPONSE

Summary
The Industry Skills Councils believe that the Discussion Paper represents a watershed in Australia’s vocational education and training history.

It recognises that long overdue reform is needed to the way in which we access and deliver skills to industry, the workforce, and those wishing to gain employment. It challenges many strongly held beliefs and traditional approaches that dominate the current VET landscape, and which are now increasingly at odds with the dynamic work environment faced by Australian industry and its workforce.

In simple terms, the policy echoes industry’s long held position that a demand driven VET system is the only way in which Australia will:

• Raise industry and individual investment in skills and workforce development so as to maximise Australia’s latent human capital
• Ensure real outcomes that raise productivity and participation to levels capable of sustaining a strong economy
  

Its legacy will be a system that intuitively understands and has the capability to respond to industry demand, a system that no longer highlights pockets of excellence as demonstration of its abilities, but which can look across the system and with confidence point to all training providers as organisations invaluable to Australia’s future economic growth.

Environmental scans (all Industry Skills Councils)

Reform of vocational education and training

Membership of the Board of Skills Australia

Skills website 

Reform Road Map 

Productivity Places Register