TAFE Directors Australia 2011 Annual Report
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2 0 11 annual report TAFE Directors Australia Inc. ABN: 40 300 173 822 TAFE Directors Australia National Secretariat Sydney Institute of TAFE NSW Turner Hall (Building B) Ultimo College Cnr Mary Ann and Harris Streets Ultimo NSW 2007 Postal Address PO Box 707 Front cover images, clockwise from top: Broadway NSW 2007 Top left, from left: Winner of the Archibald Exhibition People’s Choice 2010 and Exhibitor 2011, Apple Yin, a TAFE Meadowbank Diploma in Fine Arts graduate, with Dianne Murray, Contact Deputy Chair of TDA and Institute Director of the Illawarra Institute, TAFE NSW, the Hon. Telephone: 02 9217 3180 Adrian Piccoli, NSW Minister for Education, and TDA Chair Stephen Conway, the Managing Director of TAFE SA Adelaide South, at the national conference. Facsimile: 02 9281 7335 Email: [email protected] Top right, left to right: Kim Harrington, Faculty Manager Business at Central Queensland Web: www.tda.edu.au TAFE; Denise Stevens, CEO of TAFE Development Centre, Melbourne; and Kim Hawkins, Executive Director of West Coast Institute of Training, WA, were among Australian delegates attending the gala opening of the Miami Dade Culinary Institute in the US. Bottom right: TAFE automotive students were happy for Senator the Hon. Chris Evans, MP, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research, to take the wheel. Bottom left: The Hon. Julia Gillard, MP, Prime Minister of Australia; the Hon. Wayne Swan, MP, federal Treasurer; and Senator the Hon. Chris Evans, MP, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research, experience a hands-on approach to skills training. Contents About us Vision Mission 01 National Board 2 TAFE Directors Australia (TDA) Our purpose is to: To drive quality in TDA will support is the peak national body • advance vocational education vocational education TAFE institutes in the 02 Message from the Chair 3 incorporated to represent and training policy in Australia Australia’s 61 government-owned and training, and show development, recognition 03 Chief Executive TAFE institutes and university • support policy development leadership in sector and resourcing of Officer’s report 4 for improved outcomes for TAFE divisions, and the Australia- policy and value-added those institutes as the Pacific Technical College (APTC). students – domestic and 04 Operational highlights 5 international member services. recognised leaders Australia’s TAFE Institute • lead the advocacy on funding in quality vocational 05 Board and committees 18 Network is the largest and most diverse tertiary education sector • provide member services for education and training. 06 Financial report 20 in Australia with more than Tuition Assurance to facilitate institutes’ Vocational Education 07 TAFE locations 31 1,300 locations across Central Business Districts (CBDs), and Training (VET) FEE-HELP suburban, regional and remote registration, and Higher locations, with many institutes Education FEE-HELP offering further services through • position TAFE institutes as the the Asia-Pacific and other major training brand delivering offshore regions. skills in Australia The core business of TDA is • develop and support supporting our member institutes international networks, and leading the advocacy for partnerships and exchanges quality skills in Australia. TAFE Directors Australia was established by TAFE institute directors in 1998, and incorporated as a not-for-profit educational organisation. TAFE Directors Australia Annual Report 2011 01 National Board 1 2 3 Executive* Members** Stephen Conway Wayne Collyer Adrian Marron Chair, Managing Director Managing Director Chief Executive Officer TAFE SA Adelaide South (SA) Polytechnic West (WA) Canberra Institute of Technology (ACT) Dianne Murray Kevin Harris Deputy Chair, Institute Director Institute Director John Hassed TAFE NSW – Illawarra TAFE NSW – Northern Sydney Pro Vice Chancellor – VET Institute (NSW) Institute (NSW) Charles Darwin University (NT) 4 5 6 Sue Slavin Kaylene Harth Malcolm White Deputy Chair, Managing Director Institute Director Chief Executive Officer West Coast Institute of Training (WA) Metropolitan South Institute The Skills Institute (TAS) of TAFE (QLD) Nicholas Hunt Chief Executive Officer William Angliss Institute 7 8 9 of TAFE (VIC) 10 Note * Stephen Conway replaced Bruce Mackenzie, Chief Executive, Holmesglen, Left to right: 1: Stephen Conway as Chair from May 2011 and Sue Slavin, Managing Director of West Coast 2: Dianne Murray 3: Sue Slavin Institute of Training, replaced Stephen Conway as Deputy Chair. 4: Wayne Collyer 5: Kevin Harris 6: Kaylene Harth 7: Nicholas Hunt ** John Hassed joined the TDA Board in May 2011, replacing Dr Barry McKnight. 8: Adrian Marron 9: John Hassed Malcolm White joined the TDA Board in December 2011, replacing Paul Murphy, 10: Malcolm White. General Manager, Tasmanian Polytechnic. 02 Message from the Chair This report to TAFE Directors comes a real role for the public provider The financial outcome for 2011 I share with many TAFE executives the I congratulate the National as great pressures challenge our (TAFE) network. It certainly is proving recorded a continuing recovery from frustration of delays in an adequate Secretariat for a most successful membership with the restructuring critical to how TAFE may respond the investment some years back response by the Commonwealth to year. The TDA 2011 National to vocational education and training to entitlement training. I have to establish a tuition assurance the crisis in international education Conference staged in Sydney in Australia. experienced first-hand in my own service for members. These tuition caused by the collapse of private proved a watershed in member jurisdiction (TAFE SA) that this can assurance services were extended colleges. Despite significant policy response, and showed how The Council of Australian extend to new governance for TAFE, to high quality higher education inquiries announced in Canberra, important is this network ahead of Government (COAG) Agreement which further shapes workforce and VET providers, but limited to we still await TAFE students to be the challenging times of structural for states and territories to create planning, capital budgets and more. approved HEP providers, or those treated equally to university students, change. Martin Riordan as CEO was a national entitlement system for This coincides with political change registered training organisations although I congratulate the TDA accorded a most complimentary training will undoubtedly prove to be which has taken place across (RTOs) registered under the Secretariat for its ongoing campaign evaluation by the Board during a ‘sea change’. Its timing approaches several states and territories, and Commonwealth FEE-HELP Scheme. with immigration authorities to resolve the year, and I pay tribute to his soon, effective 1st July 2012. TDA has continued to extend its this issue, for new high-quality risk ‘top team’ with Pam Caven, At an international level, the bilateral TAFE Directors Australia has policy hand within the National VET profiles for TAFE and major providers Director Policy and Stakeholder arrangements TDA has nurtured emerged as a credible policy voice Reform agenda. in VET. Engagement, and Peter Holden, with countries in the Asia-Pacific in the VET reform discussions Director International Engagement, I congratulate the contribution of region have been well supported. The further challenges for TDA will in Canberra. TDA’s achievement for their loyalty to the organisation the TDA National Board, which The vocational education leadership be engaging with members for the in the COAG Agreement was and excellent work. We welcome has significantly refreshed from programme with China polytechnics renewal of the TDA Strategic Plan to incorporate the ‘transition Janny Tjen as the incoming recent years. I have welcomed the was especially popular, with (2010–12). The organisation has arrangements’ designed under the Administration Manager. active Board discussions which Australia ranked as the most popular been robust to extend its capacity for National Partnership Agreement successfully drove policy released destination for polytechnic senior member services, and modernised to ensure states and territories this past year across areas including executive leadership to extend their systems, and demonstrated supported TAFE into the new apprenticeship reform, TAFE professional development. This has that TAFE has a voice for policy entitlement environment. growing in higher education, the been the basis of TDA’s Strategic engagement in Canberra. I am sure This resolution was a real ‘win’ from release of a principles paper for rural Plan mission, to support TAFE further consultation with members the Ministerial Council of Education and regional policy, and competition members with wider opportunities will be critical, and I welcome TAFE and Training Ministers (SCOTESE) in policy and entitlement launched for international engagement. directors and their staff reviewing with Stephen Conway favour of articulating under our Case for a National the Board our mission, and how this Chair, TAFE Directors Australia Charter for TAFE. can be relevant for the challenging years ahead. TAFE Directors Australia Annual Report 2011 03 Chief Executive Officer’s report The role of the public provider with multiple closures of private Secretariat developed a range VET international enrolments Development Centre), in Melbourne, (TAFE) network, its leadership colleges and loss of student fees, of responses