Annual Report Contents

2012 annual report Contents 01 National Board 2 02 Message from the Chair 3 03 Chief Executive Officer’s report 4 04 Operational highlights 5–16 05 Board and committees 17 06 External policy committees 18–19 07 Audit advice 20–21 08 TAFE locations 22 Map back cover TAFE Directors Australia Inc. ABN: 39 070 265 734 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 Broadway NSW 2007 Contact Telephone: +61 2 9217 3180 Facsimile: +61 2 9281 7335 Email: [email protected] Website: www.tda.edu.au About us TAFE Directors Australia (TDA) is the peak national body Our purpose is to: incorporated to represent Australia’s 61 government- • advance vocational education and training policy owned TAFE institutes and university TAFE divisions, in Australia and the Australia-Pacific Technical College (APTC). • support policy development for improved outcomes Australia’s TAFE institute network is the largest and for students – domestic and international most diverse tertiary education sector in Australia with • lead the advocacy on funding locations across Central Business Districts (CBD), • provide member services for Tuition Assurance suburban, regional and remote locations, with many to facilitate institutes’ Vocational Education and institutes offering further services through the Asia- Training (VET) FEE-HELP registration, and Higher Pacific and other offshore regions. Education FEE-HELP The core business of TDA is supporting our member • position TAFE institutes as the major training brand institutes and leading the advocacy for quality skills delivering skills in Australia in Australia. • develop and support international networks, TAFE Directors Australia was established by TAFE partnerships and exchanges. institute directors in 1998, and incorporated as a not-for-profit educational organisation. Vision Mission To drive quality in vocational education TDA will support TAFE institutes in the and training, and show leadership development, recognition and resourcing in sector policy and value-added of those institutes as the recognised member services. leaders in quality vocational education and training. TAFE Directors Australia Annual Report 2012 1 01 National Board Stephen Conway* Dianne Murray Sue Slavin** Chair Deputy Chair Deputy Chair Managing Director, Institute Director, Managing Director, TAFE SA Adelaide South Institute TAFE NSW – Illawarra Institute West Coast Institute of Training South Australia New South Wales Western Australia Neil Fernandes*** Kevin Harris Kaylene Harth Managing Director, Institute Director, Institute Director, Central Institute of Technology TAFE NSW – Metropolitan South Institute Northern Sydney Institute of TAFE Western Australia New South Wales Queensland John Hassed Nick Hunt Adrian Marron Pro Vice-Chancellor (VET), Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director, Charles Darwin University William Angliss Institute Canberra Institute of Technology Northern Territory Victoria Australian Capital Territory NOTES: * Stephen Conway was appointed Chief Executive Officer for the new TasTAFE, effective 1 July 2013. ** Sue Slavin resigned from the Board in September 2012. She was replaced by Neil Fernandes. Trevor Schwenke**** Malcolm White *** Neil Fernandes joined the Institute Director, Chief Executive Officer, Board in November 2012. Southern Queensland Skills Institute **** Trevor Schwenke joined the Institute of TAFE Board in September 2012. Queensland Tasmania 2 TAFE Directors Australia Annual Report 2012 02 Message from the Chair Leaders of TAFE in Australia It was pleasing however that TDA’s The TDA 2012 National Conference will be familiar with change. The policy input to the Queensland Skills was held in Perth, and again was decision by Australian governments and Training Taskforce, outlining a major success. TDA recorded in mid-2012 to proceed with new devolution in TAFE governance record sponsorship from corporate National Entitlement to Training to support Entitlement, was supported service providers, and attracted a has far-reaching consequences by Chair Michael Roche, and later strong delegate list from all states for students and industry. However, endorsed by the Queensland and territories, and regional countries, there were also some not so certain government. India and Indonesia. We owe much outcomes for system quality and to the hospitality offered by our One key issue has been TDA’s strong the continued capacity of TAFE as colleagues in Western Australia, stance that the Entitlement model, a leader internationally for technical and I wish to thank Deputy Chair based within the NPA, required states and further education. Sue Slavin, who went to great lengths and territories to commit to sufficient to ensure the success of the event Australian governments have now set transition funding for TAFE to support with the support of WA Premier, timelines for a conversion to ‘voucher- the public provider into the new the Hon Colin Barnett MP, and style’ industry and student funding competitive environment. his government. for Australia’s technical and further Behind this stance was TDA’s education. It has been important Sue Slavin showed enormous vigour National Charter for TAFE with four that amid such Council of Australian and contributed much with her overarching principles. The Charter Government-endorsed change, TDA innovative ideas to the National Board was unanimously endorsed at last has stepped up to play a centrepiece of TDA, and I wish Sue well on her year’s TDA AGM. All this helped role for members advocating ‘transition retirement as Managing Director of enormously in our quest to engage support’ funding for Australia’s public West Coast Institute of Training. and successfully articulate why such provider (TAFE) institutes. TDA has base funding was essential to uphold I would like to acknowledge Dianne been the strong voice in the VET a TAFE public provider in Australia. Murray, Institute Director, TAFE NSW sector about maintaining quality and – Illawarra Institute, also Deputy Chair, building capacity. Undoubtedly this remains a live issue. for her strong contribution to TDA I refer to the proposal for National TDA also commissioned a survey policy development, and for chairing Entitlement to Training across states of members to review our overall the international members Australian and territories from the Prime Minister, Strategic Plan for the next three years. TAFE International Network (ATIN) the Hon Julia Gillard MP, supported The issue of funding for TAFE under group, while also representing TDA by Premiers and Chief Ministers, in the ‘new market’ was the Number 1 on the My Skills website review. response to reward payments of issue raised by those TAFE CEOs and The Board has also been helped $1.75 billion over four years, from their executives who took part, and enormously by Kevin Harris, Institute 1 July 2012. identified issues for their own lecturers Director, TAFE NSW – Northern and industry partners as they chart TDA led the sector when it Sydney Institute, as chair of the what is required for Entitlement. recommended to the Australian Finance & Audit Committee. Kevin Government that for such an extensive I thank all 61 TAFE institute CEOs implemented a new risk charter along National Entitlement plan, detailed who continue as members, along with a review of accounting services. base funding and cost planning would with a wider group of associate My thanks go to the leadership shown be critical, as it had commissioned members of TDA. I note that TAFE by Martin Riordan as CEO, and his for the higher education sector under institutes, in increasing numbers, hard-working executive team Pam Dr Jane Lomax-Smith. Instead the utilise our fast-expanding services Caven, Peter Holden, Linda Condon Gillard Government proceeded apace including Tuition Assurance Scheme and Janny Tjen. The financial turn- to secure an in-principle agreement (TAS) certification. Equally pleasing around for the TDA organisation with Premiers and Chief Ministers, is the popularity of the TDA TAS for has been ongoing under their but without such detail. Regrettably, selected private Registered Training management, and this has supported negotiations on the ‘transition’ detail Organisations (RTOs) and higher investment in the advocacy needed broke down within months between education providers, who meet the during the changes under way to Commonwealth and Coalition high credentials required under the TAFEs across Australia. governments elected in the eastern member criteria. states, NSW, Queensland and Victoria. Stephen Conway Chair TAFE Directors Australia Annual Report 2012 3 03 Chief Executive Officer’s report In review, the 2012 year was a impassioned address articulating his Memorandum of Understanding with watershed for TDA. vision for TAFE and its critical role in the China Education Association supporting productivity and the skills for International Exchange (CEAIE) Looking back on achievements as we required for the resource-rich state. working with public technical and completed our Strategic Plan, I am vocational colleges and polytechnics, encouraged that TDA enhanced its By year’s end, our commitment to and the Indonesian Ministry of voice during the significant overhauls students under our Plan was achieved Education and the Australian to funding and policy, and equally our with the TDA National Scholarships Government joined to appoint TDA new

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