Reframing the Future is a major initiative of the Australian and State and Territory Governments. Its aims are to assist in building the capacity of the Australian VET sector to facilitate the achievement of a national training system.

Mission
To assist VET practitioners to become highly skilled, and VET organisations to
become high performing to enable Australian industry to thrive in the local and global economy.

Vision
The fully integrated national VET system will be acknowledged worldwide as a key contributor to Australia's economic growth and social well-being.

Goal 1 - Skills Development for VET Practitioners
Sub-program Skills Development for VET Practitioners

To enable VET practitioners to become highly-skilled in implementing the national training system.

Objectives for 2006

To develop VET practitioners' capability in implementing key areas of the national training system, such as new and revised Training Packages, workplace teaching, learning and assessment strategies and the requirements of the Australian Quality Training Framework and collaborative industry/provider relationships.

To develop the capability of different groups of VET practitioners to implement the national training system, from core teaching staff to previously overlooked groups such as casual staff, middle level managers and workplace trainers and assessors.

Goal 2 - Strategic and Change Management for Improvement
Sub-program 2a Strategic and Change Management

To enable VET managers to develop new skills in leading strategy-making and strategy-implementation so their organisations become high-performing in responding to the needs of the national training system.

Objectives for 2006

To enable VET organisations to use strategic management and/or change management strategies to develop continuously improved, industry-led, demand-driven, and outcomes-focused cultures supportive of the national training system and satisfying the needs of learners.

To enable VET organisations to determine appropriate organisational structures, cultures and strategies to implement the Training and Assessment Training Package in order to underpin continuous improvement in teaching, learning and assessment.

To enable managers in VET organisations to provide effective leadership that incorporates strategic management and/or change management in order to review and redesign their structures and staff roles, hence become high-performing in supporting the implementation of the national training system.

To enable VET practitioners to build their capabilities as change agents within the VET sector, to bring about changes required to implement the national training system.

Objectives for 2006

To enable individual change agents to assist colleagues in their own and other VET organisations to implement the national training system.

To enable the change agents to model an increased client focus among VET practitioners.

Goal 3 - Engaging VET Practitioners
Sub-program Engaging VET Practitioners

To enable VET personnel and stakeholders to engage in constructive debate about how to continuously improve practices in implementing the national training system based on learning from both practice and theory.

Objectives for 2006

To establish an ongoing forum for knowledge sharing and generation among VET stakeholders and practitioners in making effective professional judgments about a range of complex issues in teaching, learning and assessment.

Goal 4 - Effective Networking
Sub-program 4a Communities of Practice

To enable VET practitioners to develop communities of practice - reaching across organisations, industries and borders - to better implement the national training system.

Objectives for 2006

To establish communities of practice focused on issues related to the implementation of the national training system such as quality practice and the AQTF, or the implementation of Training Packages including attention to the quality and consistency of assessment, or other industry/community training issues.

Sub-program 4b Industry Training Networks

To enable VET practitioners to establish innovative and effective networks between industry and providers and other stakeholders, to improve the implementation of the national training system.

Objectives for 2006

To build training partnerships by developing networks between different stakeholder groups that are involved in the training industry, such as providers and industry clients, with the emphasis on creating a partnership that previously did not exist or was under-developed.

To network for growth by developing partnerships which are specifically focused on increasing the quality and quantity of training, for instance, in a specific industry, community or region.

Sub-program 4c Teaching and Learning Networks and Assessor Networks

To enable VET practitioners to establish innovative and effective networks between VET teaching and learning practitioners and/or assessors, to support the implementation of the national training system.

Objectives for 2006

To establish a range of different means for knowledge sharing and knowledge generation among VET teaching and learning practitioners in order to improve the quality and consistency of teaching and learning strategies in VET.

To establish a range of mechanisms for knowledge sharing and knowledge generation among VET assessors, or between industry and assessors, in order to improve the quality and consistency of assessment in VET.

Goal 5 - Applying Information and Research
Sub-program Applying Information and Research

To enable VET practitioners to develop skills in accessing and applying information and research findings.

Objectives for 2006

To provide VET organisations with linkages to current VET research and best practice models.

To market to VET personnel leading-edge insights into VET customer and client needs and expectations and establish mechanisms for applying the insights to practice.