Annual Report 2015-2016 5 September 2016 The Honourable Yvette D’Ath MP Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Minister for Training and Skills GPO Box 149 Brisbane Qld 4001 Dear Minister, I am pleased to present the Annual Report 2015-2016 and financial statements for TAFE Queensland. I certify that this Annual Report complies with: • the prescribed requirements of the Financial Accountability Act 2009 and the Financial and Performance Management Standard 2009; and • the detailed requirements set out in the Annual Report requirements for Queensland Government agencies. A checklist outlining the annual reporting requirements can be accessed at www.tafeqld.edu.au Yours sincerely Warren Tapp Board Chair TAFE Queensland Contents Board Chair’s message 3 Stronger within 22 Ahead of the Curve 24 Chief Executive Officer’s message 5 A Focus on Growth 26 Our organisation 6 Governance 28 Our training network 7 Organisational Structure 28 Board 29 Key results 2015-16 8 Board Members 30 Committees 32 Financial performance 9 Performance measures 33 Governance – other reporting requirements 34 Our activity 10 Financial statements 2015-16 36 Staff profile 16 Management Certificate 67 Year in Review 17 Independent Auditor’s Report 68 Setting the Standard 18 Glossary of Terms 70 Delivering for Queensland 20 About this report The 2015-16 Annual Report for TAFE Queensland has been prepared in accordance with the Financial Accountability Act 2009, the Financial and Performance Management Standard 2009 and the TAFE Queensland Act 2013. To meet State Government requirements, a minimum number of copies of this report were printed. This Annual Report is also available online at www.tafeqld.edu.au TAFE Queensland is committed to providing accessible services to Queenslanders from all culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. If you have any difficulty in understanding the annual report please call TAFE Queensland on (07) 3514 3600 to arrange an interpreter to effectively communicate this report to you. TAFE Queensland Annual Report 2015-16 © TAFE Queensland 2016 ISSN 1322-5154 (Print) ISSN 2205-4677 (Online) This annual report is licensed by TAFE Queensland under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 Australia licence. Public availability CC BY Licence Summary Statement: On the cover: In essence, you are free to copy, communicate and adapt A master’s graduate in architecture but looking for a career that was this annual report, as long as you attribute the work to more hands on, Lara Nobel completed a carpentry apprenticeship TAFE Queensland. To view a copy of this licence, visit with TAFE Queensland. TAFE’s flexibility, recognition of prior learning http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/au/deed.en and practical study environment gave her the skills to start her own construction business. Today, Lara has been named 2015 Attribution: Content from this annual report should be Construction Skills Queensland Apprentice of the Year and her attributed as: TAFE Queensland Annual Report 2015-16 construction business, the Tiny House Company grows big. Annual Report 2015-2016 1 CASE STUDY TAFE Queensland official partner of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games The Gold Coast 2018 Volunteers will gain practical training The aim of the program is to build the in real world environments that will capacity of Indigenous business owners Commonwealth Games prepare them, not only for the Games, to successfully tender for work, fulfil (GC2018) will be the but also improve their employment tender requirements and ultimately build biggest sporting event prospects and provide a legacy of sustainable and profitable businesses. skills and experience for Queensland. Australia has seen in To help industry prepare for the growth Work has already started on delivering in tourism expected as a result of the over a decade. the skills employees will need to Games, TAFE Queensland is delivering a supply services to the Games. four part multi-faceted, bespoke training As the official training partner, TAFE program to more than 300 employees Queensland will be responsible for TAFE Queensland is working with NEP of Twin Towns Clubs and Resorts. developing bespoke vocational Broadcasting on opportunities to recruit education and training (VET) programs graduates from TAFE programs and In addition, TAFE Queensland has for some 15,000 volunteers, place students in work in the lead up relocated the delivery of its hospitality providing them with transferrable to the Games and during operations. and commercial cookery programs skills that will last a lifetime. from Ashmore to Southport and Small Business Mentoring programs invested in an industry-specific The partnership provides TAFE are being delivered to Indigenous training facility adjacent to the Queensland with the opportunity to business owners looking to work with Southport Campus branded the demonstrate our strengths as a market Grocon, the construction company for Hospitality Hub. The Hospitality Hub leader of high quality education and the Commonwealth Games Village. is a student-run operation with top- training and showcase our talented end facilities delivering training from staff and students to the world. back-of-house to front-of-house. tafeqld.edu.au/gc2018 2 Board Chair’s message When the TAFE This commitment has positioned TAFE Leveraging our strengths as Queensland’s Queensland as a key contributor to both largest provider of VET, in March we Queensland Board was state and federal further education and entered into a historic partnership with appointed in August 2013 training policy, playing an integral role the 2018 Commonwealth Games to in the future reform of the sector. TAFE be held on the Gold Coast. Only TAFE TAFE Queensland was Queensland has made a significant Queensland has the capacity, reputation a diverse organisation, contribution to the federal reform agenda and experience to deliver training to spread across 13 separate during what has been a tumultuous time the 15,000 volunteers who will be an for the sector. Over the past 18 months, essential part of making the Games great. institutes working in a we have made several submissions to culture of competition Australian Government consultation As we approach the end of our term processes and in February 2016, as TAFE Queensland’s inaugural across the state. we provided our first ever pre- Board, it is timely to reflect on our budget submission to the Australian journey and celebrate the remarkable Our transformation into a single statutory Government outlining our position achievements we, as an organisation, body with a strategic mission to be an on key matters confronting the sector. have made during a challenging efficient, sustainable and responsive time. I would like to thank my Board organisation has been successfully In 2015-16, we have worked closely colleagues for their time and efforts in made against the backdrop of with the Queensland Government, contributing to TAFE Queensland. ongoing VET reform and an aggressive through the state Department of On behalf of the Board, I would like to competitive landscape. Education and Training, on a plan to revitalise Queensland’s training assets. thank TAFE Queensland management This Annual Report demonstrates At a series of stakeholder consultation and staff for their hard work and continued strength in our performance sessions across the state, we reaffirmed commitment to our strategic direction for 2015-16 including a positive our commitment to supporting all and to our purpose of supporting the operating position for the third communities, but in particular across growth of Queensland’s economy consecutive year and continuing regional Queensland, by ensuring they through the provision of high quality improvements in the satisfaction levels have access to training where and when education and training. of our students, our industry customers they need it. We have engaged with Our unerring focus on quality and and our staff. industry more closely to understand proud history of delivering training that their needs and provide training to transforms lives sets us apart as the Throughout 2015-16, TAFE Queensland meet them. has remained true to our 130 years of premier VET provider in Queensland. It is history as the public provider committed In addition, the creation of TAFE Chairs from this position that TAFE Queensland to provide quality training that delivers Australia in July 2014 has provided can continue to play an important role in real outcomes for students and industry. a commercial and governance focus shaping the future of the VET sector and This heritage offers us an enduring from outside government, to national safeguard its place in the state’s social role in every community in which we discussions about VET and TAFE and and economic future. work and underpins our contribution to I am proud to be the inaugural TAFE strengthening the skills base that drives Queensland representative and Chair Warren Tapp our state’s economy. of this group. Board Chair TAFE Queensland Annual Report 2015-2016 3 CASE STUDY Six star program delivers world class skills In December 2015 TAFE Focusing on programs in hospitality TAFE Queensland’s partnership with service, culinary arts and front of Star Entertainment Group to create Queensland celebrated house, our training is designed to the Queensland Hotel and Hospitality the successful graduation specifically meet the demanding School commenced in August 2015. of the first 14 students standards of the growing six star To date, the partnership has provided luxury property market. Participants in real-world experience and successful from our Six Star the world class program complete their job outcomes for students to prepare International Hospitality training at TAFE Queensland’s new them for their new career in hospitality. Hospitality Hub in Southport on the Service program run Gold Coast or at TAFE Queensland’s The Queensland Hotel and Hospitality in partnership with state-of-the-art facility at South Bank. School aims to lift the quality of service across the industry in the lead up to Star Entertainment.