The Success of SA Reform

The Challenge for SA

Skills for All

Overview • Focus on Training for Jobs• Focus on increasing qualification levels

(Productivity)• Focus on those not in the labour market

(Participation)• Focus on quality• Controls to target funding • Increase overall investment in skills

development

Key Elements

• Changes to public funding: contestability• Student eligibility• Entitlement• Approved providers and quality• Funded Training List• Payment of providers• Steerage and control measures• Access and pathways

Skills for All:Progress to Date

Full year enrolments increased by 43%. An increase of 67% for private providers

Training Take Up

TAFE SA Private providers

010,00020,00030,00040,00050,00060,00070,00080,00090,000

100,000

2011-20122012-2013 (pre-lim. date at 15 August 2013)

Qualification Levels for 147,100 enrolments

1,4541,9761,454Cert I and IICert III and IVDip and Adv Dip

Skills for All

Shows change (in percentage terms) for enrolments under Skills for All for selected groups

Fleurieu and Kangaroo Is-land

Far North

Yorke and Mid North

Murray and Mallee

Adelaide Hills

Barossa, Light and Lower North

Eyre and Western

Limestone Coast

0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000

Under Skills For All

Semester 2 2011

Skills for All – Regions

Skills demand and Skills for All investment

Bus. & Fi

n. Servi

ces

Health &

Comm. Servi

ces

Whole., R

etail & Pers.

Servi

ces

Building &

Constructi

on

Electrotech

nology

Tourism &

Hosp

italty

Transp

ort & St

orage

Primary

Manufactu

ring

Mining &

Engineering

Public Admin. &

Safety

Cultura

l & Recre

ation

Automotive

Education &

Training

0

5,000

10,000

15,000

20,000

25,000

30,000

35,000

0.0

5.0

10.0

15.0

20.0

25.0

30.0

35.0

Projected Demand for VET Qualifica-tions in the Five Years to 2015-16

Investment in VET Qualifications in the Three Quarters to the March Quarter 2013

Com

pleti

ons

Source: DFEEST, TaSC

Higher level Qualifications

ABS data indicates the proportion of working age South Australians with a Certificate III or

above has increased 8.5% points from 44.5% in 2006 to 53% in 2012.

Managing the system: ongoing consultation

and refinements

Tough sanctions on Skills for All Training Providers for breaches of their Contract

Guidelines to ensure clear expectations on enrolment of students

Regular information sessions with training providers and extensive website information

Professional development opportunities to increase the understanding and use of bridging units, RPL and foundation skills, general support and services to students.

Quality & Capacity Building

Consultation with stakeholders

• Website refreshed• Approx 200 courses with no provider

removed• New entrants restricted to courses with no

or few providers• Simplified entitlement• Reductions in subsidies• Caps to 62 courses (6% of the FTL)• A new system of funding limits

Issues and Opportunities

• Public VET v Total VET• Fiscal envelope• Market and system development• Provider quality and capability• Information and choice• The VET ‘product’• Industry and Enterprise engagement

Skills are the key….