11 SEPTEMBER 2019
EDITION 16 - 2019
CEO Message – Vic Teacher/Trainer of the Year Award goes to GOTAFE
The VET Development Centre is the proud sponsor the Teacher / Trainer of the Year Award at the annual Victorian Training Awards. The awards were held at the Palladium at Crown Melbourne on Friday 6 September 2019. I would like to extend my congratulations to Jodi Rechsteiner-Sanders from GOTAFE who took out this year’s award as well as acknowledge the outstanding achievements of the other finalists in this category, Roeland Trietsch from Melbourne Polytechnic and Brenda Fithall from Federation University Australia.
It wasn’t until her mid-thirties, university and trade-qualified, that Jodi realised teaching was a great career choice, as it allows Jodi to combine her skills as a qualified chef and her enjoyment of science. Jodi teaches in the Hospitality and VCAL departments and her unwavering passion for achieving outcomes for all her students, by ensuring her program delivery, resources and their format are all governed by what works best for her them, made her the perfect choice for this year’s award.
Jodie will now go on to join other state and territory training awards winners as finalists at the Australian Training Awards to be held in Brisbane on 21 November 2019.
Martin Powell
Chief Executive Officer, VDC
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Expert VET review panel established
The Australian Government has established an expert advisory panel to “provide independent strategic advice to the Government on key reforms flowing from the Joyce Review ‘Expert Review of Australia’s VET System’, released in April 2019.”
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ASQA targets trainer and assessor capability
August 2019 saw the release ASQA’s regulatory strategy for 2019 to 2021.
As the CEO’s message in last issue of VDC News reported, one of the strategy’s key target areas is the capability of VET’s trainers and assessors
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A better vision of VET?
In early 2019 a Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting was held in Cairns.
The communique from that meeting covers a lot of ground, but this time it had a bit to say about VET and a ‘vision’ of its role in skills development in Australia.
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NCVER launches first two landmark essays
The VOCED Plus website contains a series of landmark reports which have had a major influences in the development of Australia’s VET sector.
The first two ‘essays’ explain the impact and influence of these documents and have just been published. Both have a policy focus.
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UPCOMING VDC PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
