2015
GLOBAL AND
NATIONAL
TRENDS
central
policy decisions and impacts on
IN S T I T U T E O F T EC H N O LO G Y
GLOBAL TRENDS
HIGHER EDUCATION
GLOBALISATION
vocational education and higher education
HIGHER EDUCATION
CHALLENGES
EMERGING
SOLUTIONS
CHALLENGES
Hosted by the Centre for Training Excellence and the LH Martin Institute
Lecture Theatre S127, Level 2, 25 Aberdeen Street
Northbridge, Western Australia
OVERVIEW
HIGHER EDUCATION
GLOBAL TRENDS
HIGHER EDUCATION
GLOBALISATION
The symposium addresses the
impacts of global trends and national
policies on vocational education and
higher education by providing a series
of interactive presentations from a
select group of distinguished keynote
speakers. The expert speakers will
share their unique perspectives on
the Australian tertiary education
sector and in depth understanding
of current policy debates. The
symposium will highlight the impact
and implementation challenges of
past and present decisions of State
and Federal governments, and offer
insights into the emerging solutions
proposed by governments and policy
makers.
The symposium will provide an
understanding of the increasing
globalisation of tertiary education
and the establishment of major
international education providers.
The impact of mass participation
across the world and the rise of Asia
as a major provider of education
services will be considered, as well
as the threats and opportunities
for Australia. The symposium will
address national and historical
perspectives of funding models
and new thinking on tertiary
entitlements from Certificate 3
upwards. The advocacy role of TAFE
Directors Australia will be outlined
with a special focus on the emerging
common consensus between TDA
and ACPET around quality provision,
and the opportunities for vocational
education providers to deliver
higher education. The Victorian
experience of major VET reforms will
be explored along with initial findings
and recommendations of the VET
Funding Review. Finally the impact
of the Western Australian reforms
and the future challenges for WA will
be discussed. The symposium will
provide opportunities for considered
debate and exploration of the real
questions facing providers in the
current environment.
PROGRAM AIMS
The Symposium will provide the
attendees with:
- An overview of the complex external
factors influencing the vocational
education and higher education
sector in Australia;
- An understanding of the historical
and proposed funding models for a
tertiary entitlement model across
vocational education and higher
education;
- A perspective on the impact of
national policy and its implication for
TAFE and the VET sector across the
States;
- An insight into current developments
shaping TAFE and the VET sector in
Victoria and Western Australia.
CHALLENGES
EMERGING
SOLUTIONS
CHALLENGES
PROGRAM
Wednesday, 27th May 2015
09.00
09.30
Registration tea and coffee
Welcome & Introductions
Neil Fernandes
Managing Director,
Central Institute of Technology
Assoc. Professor Ruth Schubert
Assoc. Director, LH Martin Institute
09.45
Global trends in tertiary education
• Increasing participation and the consequences
• Globalisation – the integration of markets and engagement with Asia
• Technology transforming the business and experience of tertiary education
10.30
Morning Tea
11.00
Alternative perspectives on funding models for a tertiary entitlement
• Historical perspectives and the Bradley Review
• Funding shifts in the last 10 years
• A new model for funding a tertiary entitlement
• Progress on the modelling
Professor Peter Noonan
Mitchell Institute for Health and
Education Policy
Victoria University
11.45
National policy debates and impact - a view from TAFE Directors Australia
• Common challenges for TDA and ACPET
• What is happening in TAFE and VET across the States
• The importance of quality and higher education in TAFE/VET
Mr Malcolm White
A/CEO
TAFE Directors Australia
12.30
Lunch - Central Gallery Courtyard, 12 Aberdeen Street
13.15
The Victorian experience and implications for other jurisdictions
• Impact of the reforms on TAFE and the VET sector in Victoria
• Initial findings of the VET Funding Review
Mr Bruce Mackenzie
Chair – VET Funding Review
Former CEO Holmsglen and Chair
TDA
14.00
The WA experience and direction
• The challenges for WA
• Future Skills WA
• Progress of the reforms
Mr Simon Walker, Executive Director,
Policy Planning and Innovation
14.45
Afternoon tea
15.15
Panel Q@A
• Where to from here a short statement from the panel members
• Interactive panel and audience discussion and debate
16.15
Reflections and what next…
Professor Leo Goedegebuure
Director, LH Martin Institute
Professor Leo Goedegebuure
Professor Peter Noonan
Mr Malcolm White
Mr Bruce Mackenzie
WA Department Rep TBC
Dr Derek Swarts - A/Executive
Director Strategy and Development
Central Institute of Technology
Assoc. Professor Ruth Schubert
Assoc. Director, LH Martin Institute
16.30
Program concludes - Networking with light refreshments
Central Gallery Courtyard, 12 Aberdeen Street
PRESENTERS
Ruth Schubert joined the LH Martin Institute in
Mr Malcolm White commenced his TAFE career
as a teacher at Launceston Technical College
in 1980. After 6 years teaching he returned to
industry working in senior engineering roles with
Hamersley Iron and Optus Communications.
In 1998 Malcolm returned to TAFE as General
Manager and then Chief Executive Office of
TAFE Tasmania. In 2008 he was appointed by
the Tasmanian Government as the inaugural
CEO of the Tasmanian Skills Institute, a role he
continued in until 2013. Joining TAFE Directors
Australia in 2013 Malcolm has assisted the
organisation in strategic and operational roles
and is currently acting Chief Executive Officer.
Malcolm holds a Cert. Comm Eng (RMIT), a Grad
Dip Management (Deakin) and an MBA (UTAS).
April 2014. Prior to that, Ruth was the Director,
Business Transformation with TAFE SA; a role
responsible for the complete change process
bringing together the three separate South
Australian TAFE Institutes. This reinvention of
TAFE SA as a Statutory Corporation has enabled
TAFE SA to compete more effectively in the newly
established commercial training market of Skills
for All.
Ruth has worked in the education sector for
over 30 years, with experience in private RTOs,
the schooling sector, and universities, and
most recently 15 years in executive positions
in TAFE institutes in South Australia. Ruth was
instrumental in the process of TAFE SA Regional
winning the State and National 2011 Large
Training Provider of the year.
Ruth has a PhD and Masters of Educational
Management from Flinders University, and was
awarded a Premier’s Award for Postgraduate
Research into Lifelong Learning 2001. Ruth is a
Graduate member of the Australian Institute of
Company Directors (GAICD).
of Holmesglen Institute. Bruce’s involvement in
TAFE goes back to 1981 when he was a member
of a four-person unit that designed the TAFE
system for Victoria which was implemented
in 1982. He was a founding member of TAFE
Directors Australia, its deputy chair for 9 years
and chair in 2010. His contribution to the
vocational education and training sector was
formally recognised in the selection for the
1994 National AUSTAFE award for educational
leadership. In the 2005 Australia Day Honours
list, he was awarded the public service medal for
outstanding services to vocational education.
In 2013 he was made an honorary Doctor of the
University of Canberra for his work in vocational
and tertiary education. Bruce is currently
undertaking a review of VET in Victoria for
the state government to be concluded in
September 2015.
Simon Walker, Executive Director, Policy
Prof Peter Noonan Peter Noonan is Professor
of Tertiary Education Policy and a Professorial
Fellow of the Mitchell Institute for Health and
Education at Victoria University in Melbourne.
Peter has played a major role in shaping policy
in VET, Higher and Post Compulsory Education
in Australia for over 25 years as a senior public
servant, consultant, adviser to national and
state Ministers and as a researcher. He has held
senior roles in the Victorian and Queensland VET
systems and was General Manager and Acting
CEO of the former Australian National Training
Authority. He was a member of the Expert Panel
for the Review of Australian Higher Education
(Bradley Review) and in 2010 undertook a
review of Post Secondary Education and Training
in Queensland. Peter was given a special award
by TAFE Directors Australia in 1999 in recognition
of his outstanding contribution to Australia’s
national VET system.
Mr Bruce Mackenzie is a former Chief Executive
Planning and Innovation
Prof Leo Goedegebuure is a Director of the
LH Martin Institute and a former Executive
Director of the Center for Higher Education Policy
Studies (CHEPS), at the University of Twente,
Netherlands. He is an auditor for the Hong
Kong Quality Assurance Council and has been
a member and rapporteur for the OECD tertiary
education review of New Zealand. Leo has worked
as an expert on governance and management
in Central and Eastern Europe, the Russian
Federation, Africa, South East Asia and South
America on projects initiated by the European
Commission, the World Bank and UNESCO. Leo’s
research interests are in the areas of governance
and management, system dynamics, universityindustry relationships, and institutional mergers.
Simon began his career in the public sector as a
financial analyst for Central TAFE after starting
his career in the private sector. Simon joined
the Department of Training in 1997 and has
since worked in a variety of senior roles with a
particular focus on VET sectoral planning, policy
and resourcing.
Simon represents Western Australia on the
national Senior Skills Officials Network as well as
being a member of the Curtin University School
of Economics and Finance Advisory Board,
ex-officio member of the Western Australian
State Training Board and a director of the board
of the National Centre for Vocational Education
and Research (NCVER). Simon is also Chair of
the State Government Workforce Development
Advisory Group.