I missed the ConCOVE webinar discussing the funding of vocational education which was presented a couple of weeks ago. The webinar summarised the findings and recommendations from the report.
Concove is seeking feedback on the above, closing tomorrow the 27th of June.
The report was prepared by Brenden Mischewski and Roger Smyth. It summarised a range of interviews with stakeholders across industry (mainly construction and infrastructure), tertiary education, and government. The paper also provides a brief overview of the literature review, proposes a conceptual model (five key changes).
Feedback is sought with regard to the five key changes to try to bring better effectiveness towards how funding is used, These are:
- take a people-centred approach to learning support - at present the system is dis-connected, fragmented, confusing, missing key pieces and not reaching the people who need the support.
- devolved decision-making - industry and providers are not well connected. Centralised direction is the norm at the moment but this is not necessarily efficient, especially with regard to regional and localised skill needs.
- strengthening the investment approach - to ride out the economic ups and downs which affect training provision in the workplace.
- increase work-based learner fees - to support higher completion rates.
- introduce industry training levies - small amounts from each company, can help power
The discussion paper details the issues for each of the above and proposes solutions.
Overall, an important discussion document, given that Aotearoa is a small country, with a strong need to ensure the populace is better supported for the future of work inclusively and equitability and help provide the country with skills required where it is required.
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