Annual Update for Skills Forecasts on the Way

Our Role Establishing Skills Insight JSC

Skills Impact held a Skills Service Organisation (SSO) role between 2016 and 2022. In 2023 we established one of ten Job and Skills Councils (JSCs), after a submission to move into the role was backed by over 200 letters of support from a broad range of industry stakeholders. This new JSC, Skills Insight, has a broader scope to deliver outcomes that support a responsive VET system and a skilled and resilient national workforce. The industry coverage of Skills Insight is similar to our past coverage as a Skills Service Organisation.

Annual Updates to Skills Forecasts, including proposed project work for 2020 – 2021 will soon be available for feedback on the Skills Impact website.

Skills Forecasts suggest improvements to national skills standards and qualifications. They also outline opportunities and challenges for industry engagement with the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector. The information is gathered through the conversations, interactions, and feedback with so many of you, and supported with desktop research. The time and resources you share are greatly appreciated.

This year, an Annual Update for each Skills Forecast will be published, following a decision by the AISC that a comprehensive Skills Forecasts is only required once every three years, with abridged annual updates the two years between.

Full Skills Forecasts will describe industry skills gaps, emerging markets and changing work methods. They propose a four year plan for reviewing and developing relevant units, skill sets, and qualifications. They are created once every three years.
Annual Updates will identify any specific changes to the industry environment, and to address current priority issues.

This year’s Annual Update will include information about employers’ use of training packages and qualifications, barriers to hiring apprentices and trainees, and reasons behind non-completion rates. It will also look at alternative training being delivered, some of which draws on the training package, but is not delivered by registered training organisations.

Your feedback on these topics is encouraged, as well as the training package projects that have been proposed. The AISC continues to draw on the information from the Annual Updates to Skills Forecasts to create their National Schedule of training package projects and to determine future training package projects.

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Our Role Establishing Skills Insight JSC

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Annual Update for Skills Forecasts on the Way

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