Consultation Draft
Strategic Plan 2015–19
Inspiring minds. Creating opportunities. Shaping Queensland’s future.
Our purpose
Our performance
Empowerment
Preparing Queenslanders with the knowledge, skills and confidence
to participate successfully in the community and the economy
We will monitor our progress to deliver our priorities through
performance indicators:
• Participation in early childhood education programs
Responding to
customers through
local decision making
Our values
Customers first — Creating positive experiences for children,
students, families, communities and industry
Accountability
Ideas into action — Recognising and cultivating innovation
for better outcomes
Unleash potential — Building capability using high
expectations of each other and our services
Seeking and acting
on feedback
Be courageous — Promoting evidence informed decision
making, transparency and accountability
Empower people — Empowering people to make local
decisions based on trust, respect and valuing diversity
Our commitment
We are committed to assisting to deliver the Queensland
Government’s objectives for the community:
• Creating jobs and a diverse economy
• Delivering quality frontline services
• Building safe, caring and connected communities
• Protecting the environment
• Early years services meeting National Quality Standards
• School attendance
• Literacy and numeracy achievement
Capability
• Year 12 or equivalent
• Equity of outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Queenslanders
Supporting
and developing
great people
• Transitions to further education, training and employment
• Parent satisfaction
• Participation and completions in training
• Graduates in employment or further education and
training
Alignment
Collaboration
Recognising the
role of each part
of the system
• Retention
Working together as
a connected system
Making it happen
• Graduate and employer satisfaction
Consultation Draft
Our priorities
By working together and focusing on our priorities we will lift outcomes for Queenslanders
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Schooling
Training and skilling
Children engaged in quality early years programs
and making successful transitions to school
Students engaged in learning, achieving and successfully
transitioning to further education, training and work
Queenslanders skilled to participate successfully
in the economy and the broader community
• Strong connections between home, early childhood
services and school
• Successful learners supported to achieve their learning goals
Early years
• Engaged parents and carers involved in their
child’s learning and development
• Schools improving learning outcomes through a focus on the
progress of every student
• Vulnerable children participating in early education
• Teachers employing high quality, evidence-based teaching
practices
• Continuous quality improvement through effective
regulatory practice and performance reporting
• School leaders driving school improvement and student
achievement
• Integrated early childhood services across
community and government agencies
• Schools using local decision making to engage communities
and deliver accountability
• Investment in evidence based programs to support
early learning and development
• Targeted interventions to ensure all students are engaged in
learning
• Independent reviews informing school improvement
• School communities engaged in creating
global citizens
• A strong economy through prioritisation of skills and
training funding and incentives
• Queenslanders supported to enter the workforce
through targeted skills programs
• TAFE Queensland providing sustainable and
responsive training services
• Informed students making successful skilling and
training choices through expanded pathway options
• Industry partnerships to identify skilling needs and
prioritise training
• Quality training leading to employment through
effective monitoring of Registered Training
Organisations
Supporting services
• Empowered staff, working together to
deliver high quality customer outcomes
• Active partnerships and community
engagement
• Planned and targeted investment to
maximise outcomes
• Evidence informed improvement and
systemic practices
• A skilled and professional workforce now
and in the future
• Strong relationships across sectors,
agencies, portfolio bodies and jurisdictions
• Fit for purpose and future focused
infrastructure and ICT
• Good governance and accountable
decision making
• Safe, healthy and inclusive workplaces
• Regions working with each service to
deliver outcomes
• Collaborative policy development