Skills Insight is one of the ten newly established Jobs and Skills Councils (JSCs) to improve Australia’s VET sector by providing a more strategic approach to the industry. Like Skills Impact, Skills Insight will cover industries across the agribusiness supply chain, including forestry and timber, natural resource security, environmental management, textiles, clothing and footwear, and furnishing. The scope of work for Skills Insight will be broader than training package projects, including projects looking at broader skill solutions and working with stakeholders across the VET sector.
Focus on Collaboration with Industries and Stakeholders
Skills Insight’s approach will focus on collaboration with industry, registered training organisations (RTOs), unions, and other JSCs to provide strategic leadership and align efforts across industries to improve system responsiveness, build stakeholder confidence, and suggest improvements to lead high-quality outcomes for the VET sector, learners, and businesses.
New Functions of Skills Insight: Interdependence as an Important Quality
Skills Insight will enact several functions as a newly established JSC, with the roles overlapping each other:
- Workforce planning – a core role of JSCs that establishes the context of the other functions
- Training product development – ensures training materials are relevant and adaptable to the changing needs of the workforce in reference to information from the comprehensive workforce analysis
- Implementation, promotion and monitoring – align training quality with RTOs’, employers’, and learners’ needs and continuously improve training delivery in the VET system
- Industry stewardship – provides strategic advice on skills and workforce needs and the effectiveness of VET system policies and standards.
In its first year of operation, Skills Insight will also focus on building relationships with relevant stakeholders, including industry leaders and experts nationwide, and conducting workforce planning to understand current, emerging, and future workforce challenges and opportunities.
The organisation will work closely with Jobs and Skills Australia (JSC), drawing on JSA’s workforce analysis and projections to undertake planning for their industry sectors, creating a uniform understanding of the skills landscape and how to address skill gaps.
A website for Skills Insight will be available in the coming months. Overall, this will support a responsive VET system and a skilled and resilient national workforce by addressing system-wide barriers and adding value across the economy and all education pathways.
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