Skills Queensland definition

Skills Queensland means the same as specified in the Vocational Education, Training and Employment Act 2000, as amended from time to time.
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Skills Queensland means the state’s statutory body which provides strategic advice to the Minister on current workforce development and skilling issues and performs executive functions in the recognition of group training organisations, the apprenticeship and traineeship system (including apprenticeship and traineeship contracts) and vocational placements in Queensland.
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Examples of Skills Queensland in a sentence

  • The Taskforce has therefore called for the transformation of the previous State Labor Government’s Skills Queensland model to assist in achieving the targets and objectives of the LNP Government and of industry.

  • The options of continuing with the Skills Queensland model and DETE in their current roles, or reversion of industry engagement back to DETE, are not supported by the Taskforce.

  • Skills Queensland was established in 2010 in response to industry peak body recommendations to the previous Premier to establish a state Skills Commission to lead on all future skills and workforce development issues for the State and industry.

  • The VET sector is currently regulated and funded by a number of State and Commonwealth Government agencies, including the Queensland Department of Education, Training and Employment; the Training Employment and Recognition Council; Skills Queensland; the Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations; and the new Australian Skills Quality Authority.

  • From many quarters, establishment of Skills Queensland was hampered by essentially excising and rebranding a large component of the training bureaucracy from the department.

  • In short, the predominant view is that the Skills Queensland model as implemented has not been effective in addressing the fundamental strategic skills needs of industry and there is an opportunity to look at how this important role can best be achieved in the future.

  • As it has been constituted, Skills Queensland lacks the statutory independence, a sufficiently commercial and appropriately representative industry board, funding control, skills planning authority and capability mix necessary to fulfil the role and deliver the outcomes required of a Skills Commission, outlined above as being the Taskforce’s preferred model.

  • The Taskforce recognises that there is a regulatory function to Skills Queensland that has not received Taskforce consideration.

  • Under the current model, the role of Skills Queensland has been largely limited to providing advice to Government through DETE, with the department having no obligation to see that this advice was actually implemented.

  • This approach restricted the resources available to the Skills Queensland entity and its flexibility to restructure and recruit the personnel needed to drive a genuine skills outcome-focused entity for government and industry.

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