A skills system that gives people the right skills for the jobs of today and helps them build new skills for the jobs of tomorrow is fundamental to growing the economy, lifting productivity and fostering innovation.
Since 2022, actions from the Skills Plans have strengthened Victoria’s skills and training system and its ability to train the skilled workers needed across many sectors including housing, construction, digital technologies and health care.
Key achievements since the 2022 Skills Plan include the examples below.
| The Victorian Government is giving Victorians the skills they need now and into the future | |
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| The Digital Jobs program is building a pipeline of talent to meet industry demand and address critical digital skills shortages with targeted micro-credentials. | ✔ |
| Victoria’s Clean Economy Workforce Development Strategy for 2023-2033 presents a 10-year planning and investment framework to prepare the state’s workforce for a net zero future. | ✔ |
| The Victorian Government established a TAFE Clean Energy Fund to build new facilities for training in wind power, electric vehicle maintenance and smart grid systems at TAFE Gippsland, South West TAFE and Federation TAFE. | ✔ |
| Victoria’s TAFE network produced the Clean Economy Prospectus to drive new connections between industry and TAFEs and support development of skills and training needed for the clean energy sector and the state’s transition towards a net zero economy. | ✔ |
| The Victorian TAFE Network co-led the development of training to better meet the demand for a digitally skilled workforce. This included new IT qualifications such as a Diploma of Information Technology traineeship and bolt-on micro- credentials to develop specialised, industry-relevant skills such as cyber security and cloud computing. | ✔ |
| The VSA's Local Skills Partnership Program and the engagement officers have supported many employers, TAFEs and community organisations to meet workforce skills needs and progress innovative place-based skills solutions across regional Victoria. | ✔ |
| Skills Solutions Partnerships support industry, TAFEs and dual sector universities to work together to design and pilot short training courses that quickly address industry skills gaps in priority sectors of the economy. | ✔ |
| The Office of TAFE Coordination and Delivery has supported the Victorian TAFE Network to establish and sustain an approach to courseware development that enables the sharing of training and assessment resources, supporting consistent, high-quality training for learners and achieving efficiencies across the TAFE Network. | ✔ |
Since the release of the 2024 Skills Plan, the Victorian Government has continued to develop a skilled and adaptable Victorian workforce that can do the jobs of today and tomorrow by:
- building the digital capability of Victorians
- developing qualifications and delivering training that meet the needs of learners and industry
- strengthening the Victorian VET workforce.
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