Transcript Higher Education and Skills Group Participation Branch Learn Local: Provider Forum October 2013

Higher Education and Skills Group
Participation Branch
Learn Local: Provider Forum
October 2013
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Contents
1. Learn Local: Focusing on the Future
2. Data
3. Purchasing Arrangements for 2014
4. Questions and Answers
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Learn Local: Focusing the Future
Development overview
Learn Local: Focusing on the Future
Key features
Next steps
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Overview
Jointly developed by the Adult, Community and Further Education Board and the Department
of Education and Early Childhood Development.
Developed through consultation with the Learn Local sector, including peak bodies and over
200 Learn Local providers at regional forums across the state.
Recognises the valuable role of Learn Local organisations in the Victorian vocational training
sector.
Sets out the actions that government should take to help the sector meet its potential,
sharpen its focus and improve its sustainability and responsiveness.
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There are significant challenges for adult vocational training in Victoria
• Victoria faces significant challenges in raising the vocational and employability skills of
the adult population. For example:
 There are around 625,000 Victorians aged 15-64 who are unemployed, not in the
labour force or in low-skilled jobs
 Around half of 15-74 year olds fall below the minimum literacy and numeracy
levels considered necessary to cope in modern society
• Victoria will need to address the following challenges to improve adult vocational
outcomes in the coming years:
Increasing
participation and
improving outcomes
for low skilled and
disadvantaged
Victorians
Meeting demand for
vocational education
in some parts of the
state
Ensuring consistently
high quality
vocational education
across providers
Improving the
efficiency of cost
structures,
regulation, oversight
and governance
The Learn Local Strategy will contribute to all four of these objectives
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Learn Local: Focusing on the Future
Development overview
Learn Local: Focusing on the Future
Key features
Next steps
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Learn Local: Focusing on the Future
The Learn Local Strategy contains three strategic directions for the Learn Local sector:
Strategic direction 1
• Refocusing and refining the role of Learn Local
Strategic direction 2
• Promoting durable networks and co-location of services to
improve pathways and sustainability
Strategic direction 3
• Building the Learn Local sector’s capability to deliver high quality
education services
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Learn Local: Focusing on the Future
Development overview
Learn Local: Focusing on the Future
Key features
Next steps
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Key features
The Strategy affirms existing commitments to:
Pre-accredited
training, highlighting a
record $14 million
commitment in
2013-14
The Capacity and
Innovation Fund, with
an additional
$1 million to
incentivise
partnerships
Digital literacy, with
continued access to
internationallyrecognised course
content and 20 %
target for preaccredited delivery
Professional
development for the
sector, with targeted
opportunities to build
on existing offerings
The Strategy announces new commitments to:
Expand and realign
governance,
planning and
advisory functions,
including the roles of
the ACFE Board and
Regional Councils
Support
intergenerational
learning and reduce
barriers to
participation
through family
learning
partnerships and a
redesigned Family
Learning Support
Program
Streamline preaccredited
registration and
contracting to
support the
establishment of
durable
partnerships,
networks and
organisational
consolidation
Improve access to
training market data
to assist Learn Local
providers
Transfer
responsibility for
promotion and
marketing of the
Learn Local brand to
peak bodies.
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Learn Local: Focusing on the Future
Development overview
Learn Local: Focusing on the Future
Key features
Next steps
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Next steps
What’s underway?
What’s coming up?
Funding for professional development.
Comprehensive consultation with the sector
20 per cent of pre-accredited 2013-14 delivery
budget invested in digital literacy.
Transfer marketing functions to the sector
Improving alternative settings for school aged
young people.
Support for Learn Local organisations participation in
communities of practice.
Family Learning Partnership trials to support
intergenerational learning.
Improving access to information:
• Supporting better business intelligence
• Providing better access to training and labour market
data for Learn Local clients
Re-designed Family Learning Support Program.
Improving career advice
Implementation of whole-of-government Common
Funding Agreement for pre-accredited delivery.
Augment the Capacity and Innovation Fund with an
additional $1 million in 2014 to promote partnerships
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Next steps
Where do we want the Learn Local Sector to be in 10 years time?
The Learn Local Strategy is designed to be implemented over the medium term to long term.
Implementation
Engagement
• Roles and responsibilities for specific
commitments
• Timeline and phases for implementation
• Evaluation framework
• ACFE Board, Regional Councils, Learn Local
organisations and the sector more broadly
• Continuing engagement to support effective
and efficient implementation over the longer
term
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Contents
1. Learn Local: Focusing on the Future
2. Data
3. Purchasing Arrangements for 2014
4. Questions and Answers
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Higher Education and Skills Group
Participation Branch
Purpose of briefing:
• Outline the rationale and arrangements for
purchasing pre-accredited training in 2014.
• Provide a basic introduction and overview of preaccredited funding
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Higher Education and Skills Group
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To receive funds for pre-accredited programs in 2014 you
must:
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Be registered with the ACFE Board; &
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Have an agreement with the ACFE Board
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Have a current BVA. (RTO’s with contract to deliver VTGP do
not need to complete BVA)
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Submit an acceptable pre-accredited delivery plan; and
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Have signed an Activity Schedule that identifies the number
of pre-accredited student contact hours purchased by the
ACFE Board
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Higher Education and Skills Group
Participation Branch
Purchasing Principles:
Purchasing of programs that support higher needs learners to:
 Develop workforce and employability skills
 Improve language, literacy and numeracy skills
 Acquire specific vocational skills relevant to the economic /
employment development of their community
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The ACFE Board will purchase programs:
• that engage the most educationally disadvantaged
learners and initiate pathways for them to work or further
learning.
• for people with higher learning needs
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Purchasing Priorities: Programs that meet the needs of:
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early school leavers
people from CALD backgrounds
Aboriginal people
workers with low basic skills
young people disengaged from school or work
unemployed or underemployed people
people with a disability
older men
people who need improved digital literacy
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A targeted curriculum area identified :
• 80% of funding for programs targeted to improving
pathways to education and employment for higher
needs learners.
• 20% of funding for digital literacy for these learners.
(ie Intel Easy Steps)
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Higher Education and Skills Group
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Digital Literacy - Intel® Learn Easy Steps program option
 Basic digital literacy course piloted & evaluated by the ACFE
Board in 2012.
 Includes a range of supports at no cost, including personalised
training, customised curriculum & training support materials.
 Delivered –
 stand-alone course or combined with other locally
developed course content.
 At least three Intel® Learn Easy Steps modules to be
included.
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Higher Education and Skills Group
Participation Branch
Program categories:
• Adult Literacy and Numeracy (including ESL)
• Employment Skills
• Vocational Programs
• Digital Literacy (20% area of specific emphasis)
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Regional Priorities:
Demographics
• SEIFA ranking
• Evidence of need against demographics and delivery
data
• Proximity to other training provision – ie TAFE, Private
RTOs and other Learn Local Providers delivering in the
area.
• Skill Shortage areas
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Higher Education and Skills Group
Participation Branch
Regional Priorities:
Organisational Capacity:
• Delivery expertise and type of program offered
• Demonstrated pathways
• Risk / Capacity of organisation
• Percentage of hours allocated within a LGA proportional
to the ACFE Boards target population
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Higher Education and Skills Group
Participation Branch
Other Considerations:
Providers may receive a reduction in the SCH where
they have:
• A history of under delivery
• Cannot demonstrate a capacity to develop courses to
engage the priority learner groups;
• Where there is a reduction in population based on
ABS data
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Participation Branch
A-Frame arrangements:
• Pre-accredited programs are locally designed programs
developed for learners using the ACFE Board’s A-frame
• On request providers must provide copies of the A-frame
documents for any pre-accredited programs purchased by
the ACFE Board for delivery in 2014
• A-frame documents for all new pre-accredited programs
purchased by the Board in 2014 must be forwarded to your
regional office at the time you submit your 2014 Delivery
plan.
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Moderation & Verification:
• Promotes a shared understanding of quality course
design, delivery and outcomes for learners
• Ensure high quality delivery
• Sample at least once in three years.
• Feedback provided on quality indicators
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Section A
Summary - ACFE Program Categories
Pre-accredited
Region
Da te
Delivery
P r ovider
Plan
ABN
TO I D
2014
RTO s ta tu s
Conta ct P er s on
ACFE category
Planned 2014
(SCH)
Vocational
0
Adult Literacy &
Numeracy
0
Employment
Skills
100
Digital Literacy
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Total
120
% of total 2014
planned delivery
0%
0%
83%
17%
100%
Conta ct phone
Conta ct e-ma il
Deliver y P la n
Ver s ion No
Section B
$7.19 per SCH
Grand Total SCH
$
120
863
10. Total Student
Contact Hours (SCH)
11. Total
payment
Check with your Regional ACFE office for the Delivery Plan submission date
Please itemise each individual pre-accredited program - one row per program
1. Local Code
2. Local name
3. Field of Education
(FoE)
080905 Practical
4. ACFE
Program
Categories
5. Learning Outcomes inc Pathways
6.
LGA of
Delivery
7.
Anticipated
Term/s of
Delivery
8. Program
Scheduled Hours
(Must be at least 20
Hours)
9. No. of Students
Digital literacy
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1
20
$144
120599 Employment Skills
Employment
50
2
100
$719
Programmes, n.e.c.
Skills
#N/A
0
$0
#N/A
0
$0
#N/A
0
$0
#N/A
0
$0
#N/A
0
$0
#N/A
0
$0
#N/A
0
$0
#N/A
0
$0
Computing Skills
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Participation Branch
Contract Arrangements in 2014
• Common Funding Agreement
• SCH in each of the 4 Program Categories only
• Courses must be a minimum of 20 scheduled hours.
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Participation Branch
Reporting pre-accredited student activity:
• Ensure you have the most up-to-date version of your
student management system
• Minimum of quarterly statistical uploads
• Upload entire year data on each upload.
• Report pre-accredited and accredited data in same
report (not separately)
• Use funding code ACE for pre-accredited
• VET Flag to “Y”
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Higher Education and Skills Group
Participation Branch
Reporting pre-accredited student activity - Coding
• Digital Literacy Programs- 080905
• Module Codes – Local code (LETTERS and numbers)
• Funding Source State – ACE
• Fee concession – record to receive concession
• Outcomes:
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90 – Result not yet available
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81- Satisfactorily completed non-assessed
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82- Participated & withdrawn, or not satisfactorily completed
non-assessed.
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Action
Due date
Download 2014 delivery plan
From 3 October 2013
Provider Forums
Between 7 – 18 October
Delivery plans approved.
8 November 2013
Schedules e-mailed to you
2 December 2013
Print then sign two copies of the Schedule - 13 December 2013
return 2 copies to Department
First payment to you
Last Tuesday in January 2014
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Contents
1. Learn Local: Focusing on the Future
2. Data
3. Purchasing Arrangements for 2014
4. Questions and Answers
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Higher Education and Skills
Group
Participation Branch
Learn Local Data Report
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State-wide major findings
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2012 was a year of increased delivery;
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Generally consistent program composition from 2011
into 2012;
3.
More learners in total, and proportionately more of
them reported one or more factors of disadvantage.
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Information to support future planning For planning future programs that target identified
local community and learner population needs, refer to the following:
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Data Packs:
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/training/providers/learnlocal/Pages/datapacks.aspx
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•Regional Training Market Trend Reports (DEECD)
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/training/providers/market/Pages/regionaltrends.aspx
•Victorian Training Quarterly Market Reports (DEECD)
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/training/providers/market/Pages/reports.aspx
•LLEN Environment Scans
•Local Government economic development and strategy publications
•National Regional Profile data (ABS)
http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/nrpmaps.nsf/NEW+GmapPages/national+regional
+profile
•Socio-Economic Status (SEIFA) information (ABS)
http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/censushome.nsf/home/seifa
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