21 OCTOBER 2020
EDITION 20 - 2020
Focusing on Industry Engagement
The 2020 VDC Virtual Teaching & Learning Conference focuses on an area within the VET sector that is often seen as challenging, Engagement. VDC has listened to your feedback and designed highly interactive virtual workshops on engaging with industry.
The Keynote Presentations and Professional Learning Sessions with the theme of VET teaching and learning strategies for engaging with industry are:
Online Learning – Here for Good. So, what is ‘Good’?: A global pandemic has thrust online learning into our lives whether we were ready for it or not. In his Keynote address, Ryan O’Hare will explore the brief history of online learning, it’s effectiveness, institutional needs in this day and age, and the increasing consumer expectations post-COVID.
Utilising Effective Industry Engagement Strategies: In this session Kerri Buttery will review the current compliance requirements and provide a range of industry engagement strategies for different RTO settings and industries.
Enhancing Industry Engagement: This keynote from Julie-Anne Sheppard will delve into the ‘black box’ of successful industry engagement, and how organisations can enhance their industry engagement in practical and strategic steps.
Captivate – Getting Onside and Aligned with the Online World: Best selling author and speaker Donna McGeorge will lead a session about conducting engaging, effective and purposeful online sessions that enable all participants to feel safe and involved.
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The Federal Budget 2020-21: Support to take on and keep apprentices and trainees
The recent Budget and VET? It’s mostly all about support for apprentices and trainees as we highlight the treasurer’s speech and a number of the budget papers.
But there are other things there too.
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A skills-led reboot for Australia post COVID?
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) suggest that, pre-COVID-19, “Australia was already in a prolonged productivity slump.”
They believe that’s set to worsen unless the nation upskills – and fast!
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Rationalising VET’s qualifications?
Is there an argument for rationalising the number of VET qualifications?
This recent publication from NCVER looks at international approaches to this process and asks what can we learn from this.
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New VOCED Landmark report released
Griffith University’s Steven Hodge has authored a paper that provides an overview of training and assessment issues covered in the VET sector’s landmark reports highlighted on VOCEDPlus.
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WAVE’s interactive OctoberVET webinar
Join Women in Adult and Vocational Education (WAVE) for an interactive OctoberVET webinar focusing on gender, disability, VET and careers.
Thursday 29 October 2020 1.30pm to 3:30pm (AEDT)
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2020 Victorian International Education Awards
The Victorian International Education Awards (VIEA) are an initiative of the Victorian Government to support the international education sector and raise awareness of the sector’s benefits to the broader community.
Applications are now open until 11.59pm on Friday 13 November 2020.
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