National Skills Agreement - Implementation Plans

Recognising the importance of improving student outcomes, including completions, by trialling new initiatives, building a robust evidence base, and implementing best practice approaches.

Accurate and timely access to high quality VET data and information is needed to deliver on the broader objectives of the National Skills Agreement, including to measure the achievement of outcomes and support reform within the VET system.

To support, grow and retain a quality VET workforce.

To establish a National TAFE Network that will foster collaboration between the teachers and administrators of TAFEs and public training providers to develop resources, improve the quality of teaching and learning practice, and enhance the status of TAFE.

To establish nationally networked TAFE Centres of Excellence (CoE) to partner with industry, universities and governments to grow the skills needed by high-potential and strategically important industries, and meet workforce challenges that demand a coordinated response from governments, industry and tertiary sector.

Enabling investments to support Closing the Gap, complement the broader reform and investment in the National Skills Agreement and the National Agreement on Closing the Gap that aim to address entrenched inequality faced by First Nations people.

To support Australians with low levels of foundation skills, who have left school, to access the training they need. It will improve access to and the quality of foundation skills training, noting that secondary schools deliver foundation skills to secondary school children.