Building a skilled and adaptable workforce

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Preliminaries: Cover, Copyright and publication detail, Transmittal letter, Terms of reference, Disclosure of interests, Acknowledgements and Contents

Executive summary

Recommendations

About this inquiry

• 1. Equitable access to the best teaching resources to improve school student outcomes
  • Australia’s education challenge
  • Supporting teachers with high-quality instructional materials, edtech and professional development
  • Implementation considerations
• 2. Enabling tertiary education pathways
  • Effective credit transfer and RPL processes can support students, but reform is required
  • Concrete steps towards a national credit and RPL system
  • Considerations for improving and streamlining credit transfer and RPL processes
• 3. Boosting work-related training to build skills and adaptability
  • Australia’s low training rates are a missed opportunity
  • Financial incentives with advice can help SMEs develop a culture of training
  • A pilot program should build in evaluation to gather evidence on what works to increase training
• 4. Fit-for-purpose occupational entry regulations
  • OERs are designed to protect workers and consumers
  • OERs are not always the right tool for the job
  • Replacing OERs with more efficient alternatives
  • Targeting qualification requirements to risk
  • Expanding entry pathways while ensuring competence
  • Governance is vital to reducing inappropriate OERs
• Appendices
• A. Public consultation
• B. Occupational entry regulations — case studies and jurisdictional differences
  • B.1 Overly stringent occupational entry regulations
  • B.2 Qualification requirements are being reviewed for some occupations
  • B.3 State and territory differences in OERs may identify excessive restrictions
• C. Technical appendix
  • C.1 Modelling the economy-wide impacts of providing high-quality instructional materials and adopting edtech in school education
  • C.2 Enabling tertiary education pathways
  • C.3 Work-related training in small and medium enterprises
  • C.4 Analysis of occupational entry regulations
  • Attachment A: Review of ‘estimating the labour productivity effects of easing OER stringency
• Abbreviations
• References

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