Engaging with India:

Skills

Megan Lilly

Head of Workforce Development

Australia Industry Group

Overview

• Transnational occupational standards– Context

– Potential benefits

– Exemplar

– Further considerations

• Environmental Scans– Purpose

– Drivers

– Key characteristics

Transnational Occupational Standards – the context

• Most countries have unique ways of describing their occupations, skills, vocational qualifications and TVET outcomes

• Mapping qualifications is inherently difficult because of differences in: Terminology, expression and their understanding

Qualification frameworks

Curriculum vs competencies

Whether or not there is formal on-job experiential learning (such as structured internships or apprenticeships) required

• However, the work in many occupations is essentially the same across countries

• Transnational occupational standards can work as a “skills translator” between countries and across regions

Transnational Occupational Standards – potential benefits

• Mobility of workers

• Aligning TVET outcomes to meet the needs of a range of countries and regions

• International benchmarking, both for TVET and industry/enterprises

• Assisting migration – for short term and long term migrants

• Provide for great skills availability/certainty and confidence for companies with multi-national operations or off-shoring

• Easily understood by employers who can identify with the skills and knowledge as described

How transnational occupational standards can work (example)

Transnational occupational

standards

AustraliaTraining Packages

Vietnamoccupational competency standards or curriculum

Indonesiaoccupational competency standards

PhilippinesTraining Regulations

XXXXXnational occupational standards

KoreaNational Competency Standards

IndiaNational Occupational Standards

Transnational Occupational Standards: the parameters

The standards must: • reflect the complexity of skills and

knowledge, and the range of activities undertaken

• contain functions that would normally be completed by one person (including when working in a team)

• be manageable for the purposes of training, recognition and assessment

• not be influenced by external factors such as the time required for training

Transferability of skills

• standards should not include units that specify or are dependent on a single product, form of work organisation, or particular process or technology

• the standards should embrace an appropriate range of industry-relevant products, organisational options, processes or technology

Performance measures are not included

Including performance measures greatly restricts the cross-recognition because of the differences between countries in describing skills/TVET as well as local expectations

Further considerations for occupational standards?

What are the variables?

• Scope of knowledge

• Scope of skills

• Degree of autonomy

What is the comparative level of work performed - high, low … ?

Transnational occupational standards: Descriptor

Title and descriptor for each standard that forms the occupation

A simple summary of the work, what is performed, some parameters on scope and autonomy

Examples of occupational standards

Environmental scans – purpose

• Environmental Scans provide governments and all stakeholders with a

comprehensive, real-time picture on what is happening in Australian

industry sectors

• They deliver critical intelligence for policy and planning decisions at

regional, state and federal levels, and aim to help

secure the skills needed in a

vibrant economy

• Based on real-time industry views

and evidence from across Australia,

they act as an ‘early warning system’

to the VET sector and enable readers

to understand how well the products of

Australia’s training system are responding

Environmental scans – drivers

• Ensuring products and services meet industry’s skills needs

• Providing real-time feedback to governments on whether industry skills

and labour needs are being met under a competitive market/

entitlement system

• Supporting evidence-based policy formation

• Providing a central point for industry

parties and enterprises to articulate

their key messages

Environmental scans – what are they?

They:

• draw on contemporary advice from industry

• are informed by the year-round, grass roots conversations with people

doing the job and managing the organisations

• are not about reproducing historical data

and other already published statistics

• have been a formative and critical

component of the Training Package

development and endorsement process

Environmental scans – key characteristics

• A broad analysis of recent intelligence and the external environment

• Identify skill shortages and needs, changes and trends through a point

in time snapshot

• Focus on:

Macro-environment

Micro- and Industry environment

VET ‘market’

Development process for E Scans

Industry Environmental

Scan

Feedback synthesised with policy & data analysis

WebinarsSemi-structured interviews

Call for written submissions

Online surveys

Nationwide consultation session

Industry intelligence collected over the year