NCVER: Australian VET: An overview

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Australian Vocational Education & Training

The development of an industry-led training sector

The development of new strategies to ensure that the skills developed in training programmes are highly relevant to existing and future needs of industry is an essential feature of any effective training system.

Australia has embarked upon developing an industry led vocational education and training system of several levels. These include:

the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) being established with an industry board in the early 1990’s to promote the national development of Australia’s vocational education and training sector
each State/Territory training authority has a high-level industry-based training board
ITABs incorporated across all industries and States and Territories into the process of developing industry standards for the competencies required by each industry at each level of training
and more recently, TAFE institutes and local training providers that work directly with local employers and industries to provide training programmes that more directly meet their needs.

	Index
	National policy
	Lifelong learning
	Skills training
	Competency-based training
	Industry-led training
	Flexible delivery
	Competition
	Public training institutions
	National recognition
	Focus on outcomes
	Research & evaluation

The latter is currently the least developed area in Australia. This presents a great potential for further developing a system which better meets employer needs and which provides individuals with vocational education and training programmes that will maximise their job prospects in the future. This needs to be complemented with measures to encourage greater industry investment in training (see Robinson 1998b).

These pages are an extract from the publication: Australian Vocational Education and Training: An overview