OECD Training Review
This week John Hart met with a group from the OECD that are reviewing the Vocation Education and Training System. The review is being undertaken by a group of experts from the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Their draft recommendations include:
· Moving to a more seamless State:Federal arrangement for the provision of training;
· Clearly making all training up to Cert. III free of charge at the point of delivery;
· Making higher level training subject to a HECS type repayment arrangement;
· Training Packages should be simplified (and reduced to basic core standards);
· Training forecasts should focus on destination trends (i.e. where trainees are getting jobs), and;
· Trainees should be able to choose the provider of their choice.
These recommendations are somewhat similar to some of the observations of the Boston Consulting Group Report discussed below.
R&CA will use both of these resources in making draft recommendations in its Skilling Australia submission being prepared in the next week or so.
