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Convergence, competition and collaboration –the emerging tertiary environment

Emeritus Professor Denise Bradley AC. Convergence, competition and collaboration –the emerging tertiary environment. Coverage. What is needed? What is agreed? What are the hindrances? What changes can we see already? Underlying questions.

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Convergence, competition and collaboration –the emerging tertiary environment

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  1. Emeritus Professor Denise Bradley AC Convergence, competition and collaboration –the emerging tertiary environment

  2. Coverage • What is needed? • What is agreed? • What are the hindrances? • What changes can we see already? • Underlying questions

  3. Principal characteristics of a fully effective tertiary system - 1

  4. Principal characteristics - 2

  5. Principal characteristics - 3

  6. National context – need for reform agreed • Acceptance of relationship between productivity and tertiary skills levels • Concerns about international competitiveness • Education exports critical for economy • Industry wants a more effective national approach to • Identification of needs • Educational responses to needs • Regulation of quality

  7. But way forward not clear

  8. Way forward not clear - 2

  9. Way forward not clear - 3

  10. Scope: defining layers of VET governance and regulation Entities Instruments Products Funding lines Accountability lines Process lines 1. authorising and oversight layer State & Territory VET Ministers Commonwealth VET Minister MCTEE NQC AQFC State & Territory Training Authorities TVET NISC NSOC DEEWR Skills Australia State & Territory VET Departments 2. legal, advisory and policy layer NCVER NTSC State & Territory legislation ISCs HESA (VET FEE HELP) AQTF AQF S/T based regulatory guidelines Contracts for Program delivery Contracts for Apprenticeships Training packages VET provider guidelines 3. product and provider regulation layer Qualifications Accredited courses State & Territory registering and/or accrediting bodies NARA ACT NSW QLD NT SA TAS VIC WA Businesses Providers Students learning resources assessment credential 4. market layer provides information to NCVER Notes: ‘Process ‘is defined broadly. Funding lines are left deliberately incomplete in layers 1 and 2 to simplify the map.

  11. The education industry is changing • Growing divergence of approaches to VET provision in the states • Growth of private provision in HE and VET in response to government policy • Blurring of public and private divide in both VET and HE • Consolidation of providers into large for-profit companies which deliver both VET and HE

  12. Education industry is changing - 2 • Concurrently entry of small for-profit players into VET market with no industry experience • No agreement about the reasonable costs and the benefits of a strong public provider in VET • Further contestability of government funds for education and training on agenda nationally in VET

  13. Education industry is changing - 3 • Contestability of funds for teaching in HE inevitable • Other changes to VET system as year 12 credentials encompass VET modules or qualifications • Focus on teacher quality as major determinant of student outcomes in schools and higher education but little attention in VET at present

  14. Issues under debate

  15. Issues under debate - 2

  16. In the mix and critical to outcomes • Respective roles of Commonwealth, States, Industry bodies, Industry partners, and institutions in planning and meeting demand • Respective roles of Education departments and central agencies in shaping a new system – MCTEE and COAG

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