Victorian Skills Plan for 2022 into 2023

• Victorian Skills Plan explainer video

  Learn more about the Victorian Skills Plan.

• A message from the Victorian Skills Authority

  New skills priorities are emerging in Victoria. The Victorian economy is rebounding strongly from the pandemic. Our skills system must act now to provide the skills for Victoria’s economic recovery.

• A new era for skills

  The Victorian Skills Plan represents a new approach to connecting industry, learner and community insights and provides evidence for the provision of training and skills across Victoria.

• The Vocational Education and Training system has been rebuilt, with stronger foundations

  The Government is committed to providing world-class skills and training that meets the needs of Victoria’s employers, industries and communities.

• Focus and structure underpin the system

  The Victorian Skills Authority is leading economic opportunities through skills and training.

• The COVID-19 pandemic presents us with opportunities

  The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Victorian training and skills sector, but challenges bring opportunities.

• The Victorian economy is resilient

  Victoria has led the nation in job creation from the time of the state’s second COVID-19 peak, with over 300,000 jobs created since September 2020.

• The way forward

  The VSA brings together the key stakeholders of the skills sector – industry, employers, providers, unions, communities and learners – to provide skills-led solutions, drive reform and work together.

• Using the Victorian Skills Plan

  The Skills Plan identifies actions the VSA will undertake – partnering with government, industry, employers, training providers and learners – to address priorities in skills provision.

• Better alignment of education and training with labour market demands through the provision of 'best in class' data insights

  The Victorian Skills Authority wants to ensure the Victorian investment in training and education achieves the best possible outcomes.

• Improving outcomes through a better-connected system

  VSA drives effective collaboration between the education and training community, learners and industry, leading to a richer experience for all players.

• TAFE: better than ever

  TAFEs are central to the vocational education system and play a key role in delivering vocational education to school students, as well as international and higher education.

• TAFE: the road ahead

  The Office of TAFE Coordination and Delivery (OTCD) and TAFEs are enhancing the delivery of vocational qualifications.

• Growing jobs in regional Victoria

  Communities across Victoria are rebuilding their industries and communities after the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Realising growth across regional Victoria

  Victoria’s regions are well positioned to reap the benefits of the return of tourists, infrastructure investments and significant demand for locally made products.

• Government investments in infrastructure and social recovery

  The Government has invested billions of dollars in its economic and social recovery agenda, with a focus on getting people back to work.

• Victoria's Big Build

  The Big Build Apprenticeships program is increasing the supply of apprenticeships, better leveraging government procurement and improving the quality and accessibility of training.

• Digitisation and new opportunities

  Digitisation, digital tools and automation are changing the way Victoria operates – and creating new opportunities.

• Early Childhood: Best Start, Best Life

  The Victorian Government has an ongoing commitment to strengthening early childhood education.

• Towards 2025: The future of work

  The Skills Plan segments demand into 13 industry clusters that, between them, are forecast to need around 373,000 more workers over the next three years.

• Our plan for action

  If Victoria is to thrive in a rapidly changing world, it needs to draw on the strengths of everyone who contributes to the training and skills sector.

• Action 1: Start the VET journey at school

  Victoria’s standing as the Education State, and the quality of its talent pool will be strengthened through new approaches to vocational education for senior secondary students.

• Action 2: Enable learners and workers to make informed skilling and career choices

  All learners benefit from understanding the pathways to a career or further study, while employers need advice on how they can link up with new graduates and skill-up their existing workers.

• Action 3: Expand opportunities and approaches for students to put theory into practice during their course

  Work-integrated learning is increasingly seen as an approach that brings teaching and learning to life. Work placements are a prominent feature of many vocational and higher education qualifications.

• Action 4: Build foundation skills to enhance workforce participation

  Foundational skills in language, literacy and numeracy underpin participation in education and employment.

• Action 5: Bridge the gender gap

  Diversity in workforces means women are offered more opportunities for success in work and careers.

• Action 6: Build skills to support Victoria’s clean economy intentions

  Victoria’s workforce needs new skills and capabilities to enable the state to achieve its target of net zero emissions by 2050.

• Action 7: Create innovative solutions to support future skills development

  The industries and jobs of today will not necessarily be the same tomorrow, as innovation and disruption lead to new products, services and changes to work and lifestyles.

• Action 8: Align qualifications to new needs

  Skilling is more successful and longer lasting if students are prepared for upskilling and ongoing learning through their careers, including during times of change.

• Action 9: Build the VET Workforce

  Skills shortages are being experienced by the vocational education and training workforce and this is having the effect of limiting training delivery to varying degrees across the State.

• Action 10: Expand reskilling and upskilling opportunities through skill sets

  Skill sets and micro-credentials developed with industry will play an increasing role in helping employers to get the skills into their workforces to meet urgent needs.

• Action 11: Drive for higher skills and progression through education and training

  The increasing sophistication in the application of skills and knowledge today and the rate of change in work will also require the ability to learn and adapt on-the-job.

Updated 29 January 2024