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Skills and Workforce Development Agreement: Issues paper

The National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development (NASWD) sets out goals for skills attainment through vocational education and training, and commitments to reforms ensuring the VET system is accessible, produces high quality services and operates efficiently for all Australians.

The Productivity Commission has been asked to investigate the following matters with a view to improving the performance of the VET system:

• options for coordinating and streamlining governments’ support for the VET system
• options for nationally-consistent funding and pricing arrangements
• options for promoting consistency in funding and loan arrangements between VET and higher education
• options to ensure that government investment in VET encourages increased participation in training, and is commensurate with the outcomes and benefits derived by beneficiaries
• the potential for funding arrangements to achieve further targeted reforms, such as extending foundational learning programs and other recommendations made by the Strengthening Skills: Expert Review of Australia’s Vocational Education and Training System (the Joyce Review) (Joyce 2019)
• options to improve performance reporting, data and information sharing to assess the effectiveness of VET investment and delivery.

Read the discussion paper from the Analysis & Policy Observatory here.

Date posted Dec 5, 2019