The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations has released a Jobs and Skills Australia discussion paper. The paper is an opportunity for interested parties to provide their views to the Australian Government about the ongoing arrangements of JSA, ahead of permanent arrangements being finalised.

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Version 5 of the TAE Training Package was approved by the Australian Industry Skills Committee on 8 November 2022 and endorsed by Skills Ministers on 18 November 2022.
This version includes a new TAE40122 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, which supersedes and is equivalent to TAE40116 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.
The Trainer and Assessor qualification requirements in Schedule 1 of the Standards for Registered Training Organisations remain unchanged. There is currently no requirement for existing trainers and assessors to attain the new TAE40122 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.

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The latest VET student outcomes report shows that in 2022, 65.0% of VET qualification completers had an improved employment status after completing their training, up by 4.4 percentage points from 2021.

Among the qualification completers who were not employed before training, 49.6% got a job after their training (up 6.3 percentage points from 2021).

For qualification completers employed before training, 17.3% were employed at a higher skill level (up by 0.8 percentage points from 2021) and 37.1% were in a better job (down 1.7 percentage points from 2021) after training.

Satisfaction with training was similar to that reported in 2021, with 88.9% of qualification completers citing that they were satisfied overall with their VET training.

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A total of 415,240 apprentices and trainees were in-training as at 30 June 2022, an increase of 21.6% from 30 June 2021.

Non-trade occupations contributed most to the increase in in-training numbers, up by 38.3% or 47,995 when compared with the same time in 2021. Clerical and Administrative Workers and Community and Personal Service Workers had the highest absolute increases in the number of apprentices and trainees in-training for non-trade occupations.

In trade occupations, 241,860 apprentices and trainees were in-training as at 30 June 2022, an increase of 11.8% when compared with the same time in 2021. By industry, the largest absolute increases in in-training numbers were in the Construction, Accommodation, and Health care and social assistance sectors.

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In June 2021 the Australian Industry and Skills Committee Secretariat commissioned PwC’s Skills for Australia to research and analyse the expected workforce and skills needs in order to gain a better understanding of the skills and capabilities required to support Australia’s emerging Hydrogen industry. The Developing Australia’s Hydrogen Workforce report provides some early analysis and evidence on emerging job roles, and the skills and training needed to support a safe and effective hydrogen economy in Australia across six key supply chain areas including; production; storage; transport and distribution; export; hydrogen as a transport fuel; and blending hydrogen into gas networks.

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Late last year, the VOCEDplus team released an improved version of the Glossary of VET.

As well as browsing terms and acronyms, you can now search the glossary.

The Glossary of VET is a compilation of current and historical Australian VET terms, concepts, acronyms, and other abbreviations found in Australian VET research, policy, and data.

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Competency-based training (CBT) has been fundamental to how accredited VET is delivered in Australia for the last three decades or so and over this time it has garnered both advocates and critics. This research examines the strengths and weaknesses of CBT as it is currently applied to the Australian VET system and whether there is cause to consider a broader approach to defining and describing competence and hence considering how best teaching and learning in VET is delivered and assessed.

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Industry Profiles have been updated with August 2022 ABS Labour Force data. Explore and discover an array of up-to-date labour market information for 19 broad industries, including:

Total employment (including a 20-year time series)
Employment outlook
Employment by industry sector
Weekly earnings
Gender share
Full-time share
Largest employing occupations within each industry
Occupations related to each industry by skill level
Downloadable Excel files

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The total number employed has been updated with August 2022 ABS Labour Force data, for 4-digit ANZSCO occupations.

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The following training packages have been updated on training.gov.au:

LMT07: Textiles, Clothing and Footwear Training Package – 22/12/2022
MSF: Furnishing Training Package – 21/Dec/2022
CHC: Community Services – 30/Dec/2022

ASQA has recently approved an extended transition period for the qualification TLI50816 Diploma of Customs Broking for all ASQA registered RTOs with scope for delivery for continuing students only.

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