❓ The Minister for Education and Training outlines a six-point plan to improve vocational education and training in WA, focusing on retention rates, pathways to university, apprenticeships, TAFE network strength, job growth, and career guidance. The plan includes seed funding for job preparation and placement services.
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Apart from addressing the education issues of 15 to 19-year-olds, what are the minister’s plans for the training system within the amalgamated education and training portfolio? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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I thank the member for Girrawheen for the question and for some notice of it. I have said in the Parliament before that I think that the most important function of the State Government is the creation of educational and training opportunities for young people, so that, in a sense, opportunities are created for people in the future. We have discussed education issues previously in this House. I became the Minister for Education and Training a couple of months ago. Today I met with the managing directors of the technical and further education colleges and senior representatives of the Department of Education and Training, as it now is. We discussed a range of issues at that meeting and I presented a six-point plan for vocational education and training in this State, in which I asked the training sector to address six priority areas: first, increasing retention rates for 15 to 19-year-olds; secondly, providing easier and improved transfers between vocational education, training and universities; thirdly, increasing the number of apprenticeships and traineeships; fourthly, strengthening the TAFE WA network; fifthly, supporting jobs growth; and, sixthly, providing better career guidance and preparation for employment. I thought it was scandalous that for the best part of a decade, government high schools in Western Australia had declining retention rates to year 12. Something needed to be done about it and we did it. At the same time, the previous Minister for Training identified a major issue in the numbers of people in Western Australia taking part in apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Western Australia had skyrocketing numbers in traineeships and apprenticeships. Nothing was happening to improve the numbers in Western Australia; it was static. On the one hand, fewer of our young people were successfully completing secondary school - a decline of some five percentage points over the eight years from 1993 to 2001 - while, on the other hand, there was no growth in apprenticeships and traineeships. Once that fact was pointed out, it was obvious to everybody in Western Australia that something dramatic needed to be done, and that if we did not do something dramatic, there would be skills shortages, educational shortages, a future work force that was unsuited and unprepared for the challenges that lay ahead and individuals who were unable to become economically and socially viable citizens of the future. In discussion with the TAFE managing directors this morning, we went through the six-point plan for training to focus attention on what needs to be done and how it should be done. I was anticipating some resistance from the TAFE managers but it was quite the contrary. Just as when Mr Speaker was with us in Karratha, the TAFE staff there embraced the concept of working closer with the Department of Education in trying to pursue improved outcomes. All the TAFE managers we spoke to today embraced the concept of trying to improve outcomes, increase employability skills, develop more apprenticeships and traineeships, and work as a network rather than as autonomous institutions competing with one another, in order to complement one another’s skills provision. I was pleased to announce this morning the allocation of $650 000 in seed funding to expand the highly successful job preparation and placement service, which was piloted at Central TAFE in 2001. Funding for the employment service achieves one of the strategies detailed in the plan released this morning. It is one thing to reconfigure the resources we have, but a critical deficiency in the system of education and training so far is that we have not had adequate and comprehensive career guidance to let people know what positions are available, what skills are acquired through certain courses, and to put people on the course of success for the future. This is a very exciting development in education and training in Western Australia. We are on the brink of achieving great things. There is no reason why this State should not be the best there is anywhere in Australia or the world in providing education and skills acquisition training for young people. If we fall short of that we all fail. I was very happy to be involved in the process this morning discussing issues with the TAFE managers and providing a plan for the future. I was extremely pleased with the response and look forward to outstanding success.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Girrawheen for the question and for some notice of it. I have said in the Parliament before that I think that the most important function of the State Government is the creation of educational and training opportunities for young people, so that, in a sense, opportunities are created for people in the future. We have discussed education issues previously in this House. I became the Minister for Education and Training a couple of months ago. Today I met with the managing directors of the technical and further education colleges and senior representatives of the Department of Education and Training, as it now is. We discussed a range of issues at that meeting and I presented a six-point plan for vocational education and training in this State, in which I asked the training sector to address six priority areas: first, increasing retention rates for 15 to 19-year-olds; secondly, providing easier and improved transfers between vocational education, training and universities; thirdly, increasing the number of apprenticeships and traineeships; fourthly, strengthening the TAFE WA network; fifthly, supporting jobs growth; and, sixthly, providing better career guidance and preparation for employment. I thought it was scandalous that for the best part of a decade, government high schools in Western Australia had declining retention rates to year 12. Something needed to be done about it and we did it. At the same time, the previous Minister for Training identified a major issue in the numbers of people in Western Australia taking part in apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Western Australia had skyrocketing numbers in traineeships and apprenticeships. Nothing was happening to improve the numbers in Western Australia; it was static. On the one hand, fewer of our young people were successfully completing secondary school - a decline of some five percentage points over the eight years from 1993 to 2001 - while, on the other hand, there was no growth in apprenticeships and traineeships. Once that fact was pointed out, it was obvious to everybody in Western Australia that something dramatic needed to be done, and that if we did not do something dramatic, there would be skills shortages, educational shortages, a future work force that was unsuited and unprepared for the challenges that lay ahead and individuals who were unable to become economically and socially viable citizens of the future. In discussion with the TAFE managing directors this morning, we went through the six-point plan for training to focus attention on what needs to be done and how it should be done. I was anticipating some resistance from the TAFE managers but it was quite the contrary. Just as when Mr Speaker was with us in Karratha, the TAFE staff there embraced the concept of working closer with the Department of Education in trying to pursue improved outcomes. All the TAFE managers we spoke to today embraced the concept of trying to improve outcomes, increase employability skills, develop more apprenticeships and traineeships, and work as a network rather than as autonomous institutions competing with one another, in order to complement one another’s skills provision. I was pleased to announce this morning the allocation of $650 000 in seed funding to expand the highly successful job preparation and placement service, which was piloted at Central TAFE in 2001. Funding for the employment service achieves one of the strategies detailed in the plan released this morning. It is one thing to reconfigure the resources we have, but a critical deficiency in the system of education and training so far is that we have not had adequate and comprehensive career guidance to let people know what positions are available, what skills are acquired through certain courses, and to put people on the course of success for the future. This is a very exciting development in education and training in Western Australia. We are on the brink of achieving great things. There is no reason why this State should not be the best there is anywhere in Australia or the world in providing education and skills acquisition training for young people. If we fall short of that we all fail. I was very happy to be involved in the process this morning discussing issues with the TAFE managers and providing a plan for the future. I was extremely pleased with the response and look forward to outstanding success.
I thank the member for Girrawheen for the question and for some notice of it. I have said in the Parliament before that I think that the most important function of the State Government is the creation of educational and training opportunities for young people, so that, in a sense, opportunities are created for people in the future. We have discussed education issues previously in this House. I became the Minister for Education and Training a couple of months ago. Today I met with the managing directors of the technical and further education colleges and senior representatives of the Department of Education and Training, as it now is. We discussed a range of issues at that meeting and I presented a six-point plan for vocational education and training in this State, in which I asked the training sector to address six priority areas: first, increasing retention rates for 15 to 19-year-olds; secondly, providing easier and improved transfers between vocational education, training and universities; thirdly, increasing the number of apprenticeships and traineeships; fourthly, strengthening the TAFE WA network; fifthly, supporting jobs growth; and, sixthly, providing better career guidance and preparation for employment. I thought it was scandalous that for the best part of a decade, government high schools in Western Australia had declining retention rates to year 12. Something needed to be done about it and we did it. At the same time, the previous Minister for Training identified a major issue in the numbers of people in Western Australia taking part in apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Western Australia had skyrocketing numbers in traineeships and apprenticeships. Nothing was happening to improve the numbers in Western Australia; it was static. On the one hand, fewer of our young people were successfully completing secondary school - a decline of some five percentage points over the eight years from 1993 to 2001 - while, on the other hand, there was no growth in apprenticeships and traineeships. Once that fact was pointed out, it was obvious to everybody in Western Australia that something dramatic needed to be done, and that if we did not do something dramatic, there would be skills shortages, educational shortages, a future work force that was unsuited and unprepared for the challenges that lay ahead and individuals who were unable to become economically and socially viable citizens of the future. In discussion with the TAFE managing directors this morning, we went through the six-point plan for training to focus attention on what needs to be done and how it should be done. I was anticipating some resistance from the TAFE managers but it was quite the contrary. Just as when Mr Speaker was with us in Karratha, the TAFE staff there embraced the concept of working closer with the Department of Education in trying to pursue improved outcomes. All the TAFE managers we spoke to today embraced the concept of trying to improve outcomes, increase employability skills, develop more apprenticeships and traineeships, and work as a network rather than as autonomous institutions competing with one another, in order to complement one another’s skills provision. I was pleased to announce this morning the allocation of $650 000 in seed funding to expand the highly successful job preparation and placement service, which was piloted at Central TAFE in 2001. Funding for the employment service achieves one of the strategies detailed in the plan released this morning. It is one thing to reconfigure the resources we have, but a critical deficiency in the system of education and training so far is that we have not had adequate and comprehensive career guidance to let people know what positions are available, what skills are acquired through certain courses, and to put people on the course of success for the future. This is a very exciting development in education and training in Western Australia. We are on the brink of achieving great things. There is no reason why this State should not be the best there is anywhere in Australia or the world in providing education and skills acquisition training for young people. If we fall short of that we all fail. I was very happy to be involved in the process this morning discussing issues with the TAFE managers and providing a plan for the future. I was extremely pleased with the response and look forward to outstanding success.
I thought it was scandalous that for the best part of a decade, government high schools in Western Australia had declining retention rates to year 12. Something needed to be done about it and we did it. At the same time, the previous Minister for Training identified a major issue in the numbers of people in Western Australia taking part in apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Western Australia had skyrocketing numbers in traineeships and apprenticeships. Nothing was happening to improve the numbers in Western Australia; it was static. On the one hand, fewer of our young people were successfully completing secondary school - a decline of some five percentage points over the eight years from 1993 to 2001 - while, on the other hand, there was no growth in apprenticeships and traineeships. Once that fact was pointed out, it was obvious to everybody in Western Australia that something dramatic needed to be done, and that if we did not do something dramatic, there would be skills shortages, educational shortages, a future work force that was unsuited and unprepared for the challenges that lay ahead and individuals who were unable to become economically and socially viable citizens of the future. In discussion with the TAFE managing directors this morning, we went through the six-point plan for training to focus attention on what needs to be done and how it should be done. I was anticipating some resistance from the TAFE managers but it was quite the contrary. Just as when Mr Speaker was with us in Karratha, the TAFE staff there embraced the concept of working closer with the Department of Education in trying to pursue improved outcomes. All the TAFE managers we spoke to today embraced the concept of trying to improve outcomes, increase employability skills, develop more apprenticeships and traineeships, and work as a network rather than as autonomous institutions competing with one another, in order to complement one another’s skills provision. I was pleased to announce this morning the allocation of $650 000 in seed funding to expand the highly successful job preparation and placement service, which was piloted at Central TAFE in 2001. Funding for the employment service achieves one of the strategies detailed in the plan released this morning. It is one thing to reconfigure the resources we have, but a critical deficiency in the system of education and training so far is that we have not had adequate and comprehensive career guidance to let people know what positions are available, what skills are acquired through certain courses, and to put people on the course of success for the future. This is a very exciting development in education and training in Western Australia. We are on the brink of achieving great things. There is no reason why this State should not be the best there is anywhere in Australia or the world in providing education and skills acquisition training for young people. If we fall short of that we all fail. I was very happy to be involved in the process this morning discussing issues with the TAFE managers and providing a plan for the future. I was extremely pleased with the response and look forward to outstanding success.
In discussion with the TAFE managing directors this morning, we went through the six-point plan for training to focus attention on what needs to be done and how it should be done. I was anticipating some resistance from the TAFE managers but it was quite the contrary. Just as when Mr Speaker was with us in Karratha, the TAFE staff there embraced the concept of working closer with the Department of Education in trying to pursue improved outcomes. All the TAFE managers we spoke to today embraced the concept of trying to improve outcomes, increase employability skills, develop more apprenticeships and traineeships, and work as a network rather than as autonomous institutions competing with one another, in order to complement one another’s skills provision. I was pleased to announce this morning the allocation of $650 000 in seed funding to expand the highly successful job preparation and placement service, which was piloted at Central TAFE in 2001. Funding for the employment service achieves one of the strategies detailed in the plan released this morning. It is one thing to reconfigure the resources we have, but a critical deficiency in the system of education and training so far is that we have not had adequate and comprehensive career guidance to let people know what positions are available, what skills are acquired through certain courses, and to put people on the course of success for the future. This is a very exciting development in education and training in Western Australia. We are on the brink of achieving great things. There is no reason why this State should not be the best there is anywhere in Australia or the world in providing education and skills acquisition training for young people. If we fall short of that we all fail. I was very happy to be involved in the process this morning discussing issues with the TAFE managers and providing a plan for the future. I was extremely pleased with the response and look forward to outstanding success.
I was pleased to announce this morning the allocation of $650 000 in seed funding to expand the highly successful job preparation and placement service, which was piloted at Central TAFE in 2001. Funding for the employment service achieves one of the strategies detailed in the plan released this morning. It is one thing to reconfigure the resources we have, but a critical deficiency in the system of education and training so far is that we have not had adequate and comprehensive career guidance to let people know what positions are available, what skills are acquired through certain courses, and to put people on the course of success for the future. This is a very exciting development in education and training in Western Australia. We are on the brink of achieving great things. There is no reason why this State should not be the best there is anywhere in Australia or the world in providing education and skills acquisition training for young people. If we fall short of that we all fail. I was very happy to be involved in the process this morning discussing issues with the TAFE managers and providing a plan for the future. I was extremely pleased with the response and look forward to outstanding success.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Girrawheen for the question and for some notice of it. I have said in the Parliament before that I think that the most important function of the State Government is the creation of educational and training opportunities for young people, so that, in a sense, opportunities are created for people in the future. We have discussed education issues previously in this House. I became the Minister for Education and Training a couple of months ago. Today I met with the managing directors of the technical and further education colleges and senior representatives of the Department of Education and Training, as it now is. We discussed a range of issues at that meeting and I presented a six-point plan for vocational education and training in this State, in which I asked the training sector to address six priority areas: first, increasing retention rates for 15 to 19-year-olds; secondly, providing easier and improved transfers between vocational education, training and universities; thirdly, increasing the number of apprenticeships and traineeships; fourthly, strengthening the TAFE WA network; fifthly, supporting jobs growth; and, sixthly, providing better career guidance and preparation for employment. I thought it was scandalous that for the best part of a decade, government high schools in Western Australia had declining retention rates to year 12. Something needed to be done about it and we did it. At the same time, the previous Minister for Training identified a major issue in the numbers of people in Western Australia taking part in apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Western Australia had skyrocketing numbers in traineeships and apprenticeships. Nothing was happening to improve the numbers in Western Australia; it was static. On the one hand, fewer of our young people were successfully completing secondary school - a decline of some five percentage points over the eight years from 1993 to 2001 - while, on the other hand, there was no growth in apprenticeships and traineeships. Once that fact was pointed out, it was obvious to everybody in Western Australia that something dramatic needed to be done, and that if we did not do something dramatic, there would be skills shortages, educational shortages, a future work force that was unsuited and unprepared for the challenges that lay ahead and individuals who were unable to become economically and socially viable citizens of the future. In discussion with the TAFE managing directors this morning, we went through the six-point plan for training to focus attention on what needs to be done and how it should be done. I was anticipating some resistance from the TAFE managers but it was quite the contrary. Just as when Mr Speaker was with us in Karratha, the TAFE staff there embraced the concept of working closer with the Department of Education in trying to pursue improved outcomes. All the TAFE managers we spoke to today embraced the concept of trying to improve outcomes, increase employability skills, develop more apprenticeships and traineeships, and work as a network rather than as autonomous institutions competing with one another, in order to complement one another’s skills provision. I was pleased to announce this morning the allocation of $650 000 in seed funding to expand the highly successful job preparation and placement service, which was piloted at Central TAFE in 2001. Funding for the employment service achieves one of the strategies detailed in the plan released this morning. It is one thing to reconfigure the resources we have, but a critical deficiency in the system of education and training so far is that we have not had adequate and comprehensive career guidance to let people know what positions are available, what skills are acquired through certain courses, and to put people on the course of success for the future. This is a very exciting development in education and training in Western Australia. We are on the brink of achieving great things. There is no reason why this State should not be the best there is anywhere in Australia or the world in providing education and skills acquisition training for young people. If we fall short of that we all fail. I was very happy to be involved in the process this morning discussing issues with the TAFE managers and providing a plan for the future. I was extremely pleased with the response and look forward to outstanding success.
I thank the member for Girrawheen for the question and for some notice of it. I have said in the Parliament before that I think that the most important function of the State Government is the creation of educational and training opportunities for young people, so that, in a sense, opportunities are created for people in the future. We have discussed education issues previously in this House. I became the Minister for Education and Training a couple of months ago. Today I met with the managing directors of the technical and further education colleges and senior representatives of the Department of Education and Training, as it now is. We discussed a range of issues at that meeting and I presented a six-point plan for vocational education and training in this State, in which I asked the training sector to address six priority areas: first, increasing retention rates for 15 to 19-year-olds; secondly, providing easier and improved transfers between vocational education, training and universities; thirdly, increasing the number of apprenticeships and traineeships; fourthly, strengthening the TAFE WA network; fifthly, supporting jobs growth; and, sixthly, providing better career guidance and preparation for employment. I thought it was scandalous that for the best part of a decade, government high schools in Western Australia had declining retention rates to year 12. Something needed to be done about it and we did it. At the same time, the previous Minister for Training identified a major issue in the numbers of people in Western Australia taking part in apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Western Australia had skyrocketing numbers in traineeships and apprenticeships. Nothing was happening to improve the numbers in Western Australia; it was static. On the one hand, fewer of our young people were successfully completing secondary school - a decline of some five percentage points over the eight years from 1993 to 2001 - while, on the other hand, there was no growth in apprenticeships and traineeships. Once that fact was pointed out, it was obvious to everybody in Western Australia that something dramatic needed to be done, and that if we did not do something dramatic, there would be skills shortages, educational shortages, a future work force that was unsuited and unprepared for the challenges that lay ahead and individuals who were unable to become economically and socially viable citizens of the future. In discussion with the TAFE managing directors this morning, we went through the six-point plan for training to focus attention on what needs to be done and how it should be done. I was anticipating some resistance from the TAFE managers but it was quite the contrary. Just as when Mr Speaker was with us in Karratha, the TAFE staff there embraced the concept of working closer with the Department of Education in trying to pursue improved outcomes. All the TAFE managers we spoke to today embraced the concept of trying to improve outcomes, increase employability skills, develop more apprenticeships and traineeships, and work as a network rather than as autonomous institutions competing with one another, in order to complement one another’s skills provision. I was pleased to announce this morning the allocation of $650 000 in seed funding to expand the highly successful job preparation and placement service, which was piloted at Central TAFE in 2001. Funding for the employment service achieves one of the strategies detailed in the plan released this morning. It is one thing to reconfigure the resources we have, but a critical deficiency in the system of education and training so far is that we have not had adequate and comprehensive career guidance to let people know what positions are available, what skills are acquired through certain courses, and to put people on the course of success for the future. This is a very exciting development in education and training in Western Australia. We are on the brink of achieving great things. There is no reason why this State should not be the best there is anywhere in Australia or the world in providing education and skills acquisition training for young people. If we fall short of that we all fail. I was very happy to be involved in the process this morning discussing issues with the TAFE managers and providing a plan for the future. I was extremely pleased with the response and look forward to outstanding success.
I thought it was scandalous that for the best part of a decade, government high schools in Western Australia had declining retention rates to year 12. Something needed to be done about it and we did it. At the same time, the previous Minister for Training identified a major issue in the numbers of people in Western Australia taking part in apprenticeships and traineeships, while the rest of Western Australia had skyrocketing numbers in traineeships and apprenticeships. Nothing was happening to improve the numbers in Western Australia; it was static. On the one hand, fewer of our young people were successfully completing secondary school - a decline of some five percentage points over the eight years from 1993 to 2001 - while, on the other hand, there was no growth in apprenticeships and traineeships. Once that fact was pointed out, it was obvious to everybody in Western Australia that something dramatic needed to be done, and that if we did not do something dramatic, there would be skills shortages, educational shortages, a future work force that was unsuited and unprepared for the challenges that lay ahead and individuals who were unable to become economically and socially viable citizens of the future. In discussion with the TAFE managing directors this morning, we went through the six-point plan for training to focus attention on what needs to be done and how it should be done. I was anticipating some resistance from the TAFE managers but it was quite the contrary. Just as when Mr Speaker was with us in Karratha, the TAFE staff there embraced the concept of working closer with the Department of Education in trying to pursue improved outcomes. All the TAFE managers we spoke to today embraced the concept of trying to improve outcomes, increase employability skills, develop more apprenticeships and traineeships, and work as a network rather than as autonomous institutions competing with one another, in order to complement one another’s skills provision. I was pleased to announce this morning the allocation of $650 000 in seed funding to expand the highly successful job preparation and placement service, which was piloted at Central TAFE in 2001. Funding for the employment service achieves one of the strategies detailed in the plan released this morning. It is one thing to reconfigure the resources we have, but a critical deficiency in the system of education and training so far is that we have not had adequate and comprehensive career guidance to let people know what positions are available, what skills are acquired through certain courses, and to put people on the course of success for the future. This is a very exciting development in education and training in Western Australia. We are on the brink of achieving great things. There is no reason why this State should not be the best there is anywhere in Australia or the world in providing education and skills acquisition training for young people. If we fall short of that we all fail. I was very happy to be involved in the process this morning discussing issues with the TAFE managers and providing a plan for the future. I was extremely pleased with the response and look forward to outstanding success.
In discussion with the TAFE managing directors this morning, we went through the six-point plan for training to focus attention on what needs to be done and how it should be done. I was anticipating some resistance from the TAFE managers but it was quite the contrary. Just as when Mr Speaker was with us in Karratha, the TAFE staff there embraced the concept of working closer with the Department of Education in trying to pursue improved outcomes. All the TAFE managers we spoke to today embraced the concept of trying to improve outcomes, increase employability skills, develop more apprenticeships and traineeships, and work as a network rather than as autonomous institutions competing with one another, in order to complement one another’s skills provision. I was pleased to announce this morning the allocation of $650 000 in seed funding to expand the highly successful job preparation and placement service, which was piloted at Central TAFE in 2001. Funding for the employment service achieves one of the strategies detailed in the plan released this morning. It is one thing to reconfigure the resources we have, but a critical deficiency in the system of education and training so far is that we have not had adequate and comprehensive career guidance to let people know what positions are available, what skills are acquired through certain courses, and to put people on the course of success for the future. This is a very exciting development in education and training in Western Australia. We are on the brink of achieving great things. There is no reason why this State should not be the best there is anywhere in Australia or the world in providing education and skills acquisition training for young people. If we fall short of that we all fail. I was very happy to be involved in the process this morning discussing issues with the TAFE managers and providing a plan for the future. I was extremely pleased with the response and look forward to outstanding success.
I was pleased to announce this morning the allocation of $650 000 in seed funding to expand the highly successful job preparation and placement service, which was piloted at Central TAFE in 2001. Funding for the employment service achieves one of the strategies detailed in the plan released this morning. It is one thing to reconfigure the resources we have, but a critical deficiency in the system of education and training so far is that we have not had adequate and comprehensive career guidance to let people know what positions are available, what skills are acquired through certain courses, and to put people on the course of success for the future. This is a very exciting development in education and training in Western Australia. We are on the brink of achieving great things. There is no reason why this State should not be the best there is anywhere in Australia or the world in providing education and skills acquisition training for young people. If we fall short of that we all fail. I was very happy to be involved in the process this morning discussing issues with the TAFE managers and providing a plan for the future. I was extremely pleased with the response and look forward to outstanding success.
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