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Until "21st century skills", especially critical thinking and creative thinking skills, are clearly identified, operationalised and explicitly taught by primary and secondary school teachers who themselves are empowered with training in how to teach these skills, the tertiary sector will remain limited in its power to really change outcomes. Tertiary education can only capitalise on what is achieved at the primary and secondary level.

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Identify work processes and skills gap. 

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Identify work processes and skills gap. 

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Delivering on the promise of renewed productivity, learners can utilise enhanced tools, services and workspaces to achieve curriculum standards.

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Explore skills transitions across an identified "skills-sector border"

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Explore skills transitions across an identified "skills-sector border"

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I have been trying to understand why skills passports never took off in Australia, despite being a topic of interest since at least 1997. In this new (just in press) paper I have sketched out how I think skills bodies like JSA could help us to overcome many of these challenges and now I want to create some proof of concept models about how the ASC would need to be enhanced to move forward.

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Will weave into nascent submission how we might set up a pilot that spans both HE and VET - will hit the phones to see who is keen to get involved!

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... HE could drive the creation of new industries

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... HE could drive the creation of new industries

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and with that, new careers, new skills and knowledge creation and transmission, etc. We could help revitalise lost sectors such as manufacturing (but green manufacturing).

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Contact CICA (Career Industry Council Australia) and bring into the conversation (collaboration😊)

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Leadership and Endorsement to explore collaborations 

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Leadership and Endorsement to explore collaborations 

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To Kate’s points, can’t be undervalued to empower institutions to lead the change

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@LizJohnson: what is the role for the Accord recommended L&T Council for the curriculum innovation this Symposium has in its title?

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Even shared languages like skills can have wildly varying semantics

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Even shared languages like skills can have wildly varying semantics

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Even within one institution we often see very different levels of curriculum information (depending on staff completing it, faculty requirements, disciplinary conventions etc.) Then if we try to describe subjects or courses in terms of skills this variety is likely to proliferate. On top of that there is no standardisation around which skills taxonomy to use (e.g. while we have the ASC here, there are also competing international taxonomies like ESCO and O*Net and then a number of proprietary ones), or how (e.g. we find different staff tagging the same courses using the ASC very differently, and different automated methods yield highly varying results). We need to find ways to make it easier to ensure that apples are indeed apples in any shared languages if we are to use a concept like skills to support things like RPL, skills passports, and lifelong learning.

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A broader connection to the career development industry will also be useful. The bringing together of skills and knowledge education can be enhanced by strong and effective career education within curriculum that supports the transportability of knowledge and individuals to ensure flexibility and resilience to the ever changing workplace and supports the individuals needs and desires.

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Workforce shortages in many sectors (but especially health and community professions) is impacting across the three sectors (HE, TAFE and industry), shortage and competition for workforce makes it difficult to put strategies in place to find alternative or strengthen current pathways for students.

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My eQuals seems to be working well.

What is its potential contribution to a Nat Skills Passport?

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Every qualification included industry training so each student completed their studies with both practical, professional and theoretical experience.

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Where does My eQuals fit in this agenda (esp re Nat Skills Passport)?

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An Office for Tertiary Teaching and Learning

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An Office for Tertiary Teaching and Learning

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A well funded Office for Tertiary Teaching and Learning would drive quality enhancement across the entire tertiary sector, building bridges between institutional and sectoral cultures, and establishing new norms that draw from the best of tertiary practice.

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Funding and regulatory paradigms push educational practices in different directions that makes collaboration more challenging.

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TAFE / HE partnerships are more effective in regional locations where industry and training needs can be pragmatically resolved

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URL: padlet.com/ATNunis/Symposium

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Ideas shared within this session, and insights from the keynote and panel discussion, will be collated and analysed by the ATN team.

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Thank you for your generosity, in sharing your time, your questions, your reflections, and your ideas. We don't take them lightly and look forward to collaborating with you again in the future!

The ATN team

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Share your ideas on:

How higher education, vocational education, and industry might better engage to build the skills and capabilities needed by the future workforce - in a joined-up skills system.

What do enhanced models for industry-education engagement models look like, and what makes them a success?

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