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Competecy-based training and assessment in the workplace

Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, a series of Federal Government papers and major reports called for changes and improvement in the skills formation of the Australian workforce, in an attempt to create a highly skilled and flexible workforce. Training reform was seen as a means of achieving the flexibility and skill levels required for general economic improvement. The Federal Government proposed increased investment in training by industry and government, and the transformation of the training system from a time-based approach to a competency-based approach. A National Training Board was established to assist in the implementation of the reform. The National Training Board perceived the national training reform agenda as a national response to increase the competitiveness and productivity of industry through the implementation of competency-based vocational education and training. (For complete abstract open document)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/285821
Date January 2005
CreatorsCurwood, Maurice Robert
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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