The Tasmanian Skills Institute

From next year TAFE Tasmania will effectively be split, seeding two new state-wide entities, The Tasmanian Skills Institute and the Tasmanian Polytechnic. This move reflects the changing face of skills and training, with two fairly distinct streams of activity- workforce development for employees and employers, and training for people seeking to learn skills for entry into a field of work.

The Tasmanian Skills Institute will deliver to the first group and have as its foundation TAFE Tasmania’s strong record over recent years. A significant difference will be that its singular focus of activity will allow the Skills Institute to more fully understand the business needs of its enterprise customers and thereby enhance the value of the skills that it teaches its students. To achieve this it has a number of key strategies:

- It will have a demand-facing culture with new senior positions focussing on customer relationships and effective service delivery;
- It will have an emphasis on workplace delivery and assessment, building on TAFE’s nationally recognised track record;
- It will encourage creativity amongst its staff to work with customers on innovative, cost effective and productive workforce development activities;
- The quality of its products and services will remain a top priority, with excellence in vocational skills and training being a core organisational value;
- It will align itself with its business customers by itself having a growth and productivity focus

It will be governed by a board of Tasmanian directors all with extensive and diverse experience in the corporate and SME sectors working with a small but highly regarded and experienced senior executive team.

Further information is available on 1300 362 175 or at www.thetrainingenterprise.com.au

NB Lisa Taylor is a Director on the Board of the Tasmanian Skills Institute.