VET INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SKILLS PROJECT

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VET INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SKILLS PROJECT

• VET Sector Breakfast Consultations 9 April 2008

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Project

• Consortium of IEAA, TDA and ACPET
• Aim to develop a series of seminars to enable
  Australian VET providers to develop/enhance their
  business skills so as to increase their offshore
  operations and bring export returns to the
  Australian economy.
• The seminar series will have a range of
  supporting products/materials and available to
  the sector.

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Focus

• Systems development
• Sale and delivery of customised training offshore
• Professional development of overseas VET trainers
• International student recruitment, both onshore
  and offshore

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Phase 1

• Identify priority needs and gaps in provision of
  business skills professional development
  offerings for VET
• Determine the characteristics (especially job
  roles and key competencies) of the priority
  target groups
• Identify the need for ongoing provision of
  professional development offerings in workshop
  format, or other suitable formats, possibly
  leading to award qualifications.

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Phase 2

• Development of a series of national
  seminars/workshops in areas of identified and
  agreed priority.
• If industry consultations suggest, propose other
  forms/modes of delivery to achieve the desired
  objective

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Methodology

• Industry consultations with stakeholders in the
  public and private VET sectors, and with relevant
  professional groups, RTOs and government
  organisations providing PD
• Audit of existing PD relevant to the project

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Phase 1 Preliminary Results

• Findings need to be segmented
• Public/private differences
• Work levels/responsibilities (junior, middle
  management, executive)
• Levels of experience of staff (new, intermediate,
  advanced)

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Phase 1 Preliminary Results

• KEY FINDING 1
• Wide variety of experience, capability and focus

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Phase 1 Preliminary Results

• KEY FINDING 2
• Approach to PD to date has been ad hoc
• Quality of current provision needs to be improved

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Phase 1 Preliminary Results

• KEY FINDING 3
• Desire for formal and informal learning

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Phase 1 Preliminary Results

• KEY FINDING 4
• Formal learning through more effective
  professional development workshops
• with
• the option to acquire formal qualifications

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Phase 1 Preliminary Results

• KEY FINDING 5
• However, opportunities for informal learning
  also desired
• through
• networking/communities of learning

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Phase 1 Preliminary Results

• KEY FINDING 6 - Topic Priorities
• Gaps, or needing improvement
• Business/market intelligence
• Business planning/project management
• Planning, managing and delivering TNE
• Intercultural training for teaching and
  administrative staff (on and offshore)
• Training for staff going offshore
• Contract negotiation
• Export development planning

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Phase 1 Preliminary Results

• KEY FINDING 7 - Modes of Delivery
• Workshops
• On-line forums
• Communities of learning/practice
• Access to information and resources (e.g.
  clearinghouse of PD offerings business
  templates, e-news, market information
  benchmarking)

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Phase 1 Preliminary Results

• KEY FINDING 8 - Build on whats there
• Current general business skills provision, adding
  specialist, targeted concrete skills training
  workshops/networks
• Experience/knowledge of the higher education
  sector
• Aggregate effort and focus to facilitate and
  deliver
• Promote PD opportunities in more coordinated way

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Facilitated Discussion