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INDUSTRY TRAINING
ROVE decisions announced, smooth transition the key
FOLLOWING A SHORTISH
period of consultation, the Minister of Education, Chris Hipkins, revealed the Government’s final decisions on the major proposals for the Reform of Vocational Education (ROVE).
Due to be phased in over the next
three years, there are seven key changes towards creating a new unified vocational education system:
1. Workforce Development Councils
(WDCs) – Up to 7 new industry- governed bodies will “give industry greater leadership across vocational education”.
2. Regional Skills Leadership Groups
– Will advise the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC), WDCs and local vocational education providers about their regions’ skills needs.
3. Te Taumata Aronui – A new group to help ensure that ROVE “reflects the Government’s commitment to Maori Crown partnerships”.
4. New Zealand Institute of Skills & Technology (NZIST) – Unifies the existing 16 Institutes of Technology and Polytechs (ITPs). NZIST will
be established in April 2020 but will initially keep the 16 ITPs as subsidiary companies and will only gradually take over industry training.
5. Workplace learning support – To shift from ITOs to the new NZIST
and “other providers” which would support workplace-based, on-the-job training as well as delivering education and training in classroom-based settings.
6. Centres of Vocational Excellence
(COVEs) – COVEs will bring together the NZIST, other providers, WDCs, industry experts and researchers to “grow excellent vocational education provision and share high-quality curriculum and programme design across the system”. The first COVE announced is for the primary
sectors, including forestry, and the Government will request proposals before the end of the year to establish where in the vocational educational national network the centre will be located and what functions it will include.
7. A unified vocational education funding system – A new unified funding system will apply to all provider-based and work-integrated education at Certificate and Diploma
qualification Levels 3-7 (excluding
degree study) and all industry training. Of course, with much detail design and implementation still to be ironed
out, none of this will happen overnight and Chris Hipkins freely admits that “a transformation of this size will take a number of years to complete”.
To kick all this along, the Vocational Education Reform Bill has now been introduced into Parliament with the changes outlined above coming into force on 1 April 2020, followed by a transition period until 31 December 2022.
Until then, potential learners and apprentices are being encouraged to enrol as normal.
https://conversation.education.govt. nz/conversations/reform-of-vocational- education/ n
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