Call for Submissions - Industry Expectations of VET Assessment
Assessed as Competent - What does industry expect?
The quality of the assessment process and outcomes are critical to ensuring ongoing confidence in the vocational education and training (VET) system. In the last couple of years issues relating to the outcomes of the VET assessment processes have been raised in a number of industry forums. As a consequence the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) on behalf of the National Quality Council Training Packages Standing Committee (NQCTPSC) is undertaking an investigation into industry perceptions and expectations of VET assessment processes and outcomes.
Precision Consultancy has been contracted to undertake this project. As part of the research the consultants will solicit views from a wide range of businesses and organisations across Australia to ensure representation from all industry sectors. There are a number of ways for business and organisations across the country to give their views and expectations about VET assessment processes and outcomes.
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), the Australian Industry Group (AIG), the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and other peak bodies are part of the working group to oversee the project that will report and make recommendations to the NQC based on its findings.
What’s the focus of the project?
The project will investigate:
- industry (including employer/employee) perceptions
and expectations, across non-licensed industry sectors, around VET assessment
processes and outcomes
- examples of best practice around industry engagement
in VET assessment processes
- strategies for increasing industry confidence in VET
assessment; and
- the level of industry support for various strategies for increasing industry confidence in VET assessment.
The project will gather data between January and April 2008 and produce a final report for the NQC.
How you can be involved
If you:
- have staff who are undertaking VET qualifications,
including traineeships and apprenticeships
- hire VET graduates who have been trained off-the-job
- are a representative from an industry association
the researchers would like your views.
You can:
- Participate in a telephone survey. Ring Gulcan Hasan
at Precision Consultancy on 039606 0118 to schedule a date and time that will
suit you.
- Complete an online survey. Go to www.precisionconsultancy.com.au and complete the questions
online. There is one survey for employers and industry representatives and
another for employees with recent VET qualifications and apprentices and
trainees.
- Provide a written response. Ring Gulcan Hasan at
Precision Consultancy on 039606 0118 for further details or go to www.precisionconsultancy.com.au to obtain a copy of
the Call for Submissions.
- Provide details for case studies of best practice for industry engagement in assessment.
For further information about the project, please contact:
Rosalie Flynn
Precision Consultancy
Suite 2, Level 5, 167 - 169
Queen Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
p: 03 9606 0118
e: rosalie@precisionconsultancy.com.au
Submissions close 17 March 2008.
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